BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

LAWLESS ARE THEY THAT MAKE THEIR WILLS LAW William Shakespeare always says it best, and sometimes more plainly than many of us today. The Bush double-speak, do-as-I-say, make-no-sense and can't-conjugate-a-verb talk makes my head hurt. I am a political animal and have been since high school but I can't watch this man or his administration. When he comes on TV I tune over to the Cartoon Network; the latter makes more sense. Tony Snow makes me naseous, Dick Cheney is too scary, Rummy made me cringe, John Bolton needs Risperdal, Condi needs to come back on the reality side of the looking glass, need I go on? The Democrats and Republicans are homogenizing into one disgusting mess. Where's the honor? Where's the energy? Where's the Constitution? I swore I saw the monuments in Washington crying when I was there in February. My Pilgrim and Revolutionary War ancestors are spinning like tops in their pine boxes. HOW ABOUT A LAW CZAR by Mark Green Instead of a War Czar,...

LOOKS LIKE SOMEONE STEPPED IN IT... A LOT OF IT! Campaigning in 2000, Texas Gov. George W. Bush would repeatedly raise his right hand as if taking an oath and vow to "restore honor and integrity" to the White House. He pledged to usher in a new era of bipartisanship. The dual themes of honesty and bipartisanship struck a chord with many voters and helped propel Bush to the White House in one of the nation's closest-ever elections. Americans re-elected him in 2004 after he characterized himself as best suited to protect a nation at war. Now, with fewer than two years left of his second term, the Bush administration is embroiled in multiple scandals and ethics investigations. The war in Iraq still rages. Bush's approval ratings are hovering in the mid-30s. And Democratic-Republican relations have seldom been more rancorous. In the highest-profile current case, even some key Republicans are questioning the truthfulness and judgment of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in...