For many years, Americans assumed that the great majority of money available to be taxed, was earned income. After all, everybody works, everybody generates income, and it seems fair to tax this money as it comes in. It was the bulk of money earned in the United States. After all, the USA was the place to be, to earn a good income. Since the Reagan administration, we have created a different kind of America.

As much as I hate to say so, Bush is right. Gonzales was totally adamantine about not letting the White House become the focus of the hearing. If the committees of the House and Senate do not get to the actual truth about the way the Republicans have destroyed the Justice Department, that show of GOP Senators anger and sadness will all be so much ca-ca.

Karl Rove ‘s lawyer said today that Rove did not deliberately delete the five million missing e-mail messages from servers at the White House and at the Republican National Committee. Rove thought the messages were being preserved. Rove’s Lawyer, Robert Ruskin, said it was his own idea that the messages were being preserved in salt and vinegar, like the red peppers in Louisiana hot sauce.

Rudy Giuliani, known across the nation as America’s Mayor, and known in New York as the guy who made the decision that let to the destruction of Number 7 World Trade Center, is the leading contender for the Republican nomination. Yesterday he received support from Steve Forbes, and all Rudy had to do was endorse Forbes’s Flat Earth Tax.

According to Frank Rich, the pet name Mr. Bush has given to the Attorney General is Fredo. Alberto Gonzales, who likes to be called The Judge, and who unfriendly writers call Gonzo, was named by Mr. Bush for the high-living and treacherous brother from The Godfather. It seems pretty appropriate that the least positive name for this Republican paragon of law, would be one given by The Decider. And, that Mr. Gonzales statements under oath could lead to unraveling the Bush administration, over the issue of firing people who he normally would have the authority to fire at will.

The squinty eyed man surveyed the room. The war in Iraq is going to hell, along with everything else in Iraq. Rummy is gone, Miers is gone, Hughes is gone. It looks like Gonzalez and Rove will be out soon. With the Senate investigating the Attorney General Scandal, and the House investigating the CIA scandal, this it the time for Truth, he thought. We have to address reality, and put this partisan flaming and lying behind us. Put that idea right out of his head, and spoke.
“We've got a strong record to run on," he said, confident as the day he declared victory on the deck of an aircraft carrier, as Members of Congress dined on beef tenderloin and jumbo shrimp. "The key is to learn from every election and to come back stronger. And with your help, that's exactly what we're going to do in 2008!”

This morning on NPR’s morning news show, Tom DeLay promoted his new book. Of all the people in the world, The Hammer might be the last one to listen to while awakening, but he gives some insights that are very valuable, though he might not be aware of it. Delay talked about keeping order in his majority. Talked about what what the Republicans have been doing for the last years.

An honest man is one whose price is higher than the market rate, Mark Twain wrote. And like most of the things MarkTwain wrote, this is right, mostly.

In the current political climate, many people prefer to support a candidate who is perfect.
We find something to not like about a candidate, and attack the candidate without rest.
This is going to continue for about 600 days, and soon will get very old.