Hey, I’m back from a blogging hiatus to witness President Bush’s renewed push for public support for the War in Iraq. Essentially, we’re witnessing samurai level rhetorical Jujutsu. To me, rhetorical Jujutsu is the art of quickly and subtly shifting your rhetoric in response to recent events in a way that’s politically advantageous and seemingly [...]

With the President’s approval rating lower than Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen’s weight combined, I feel this would be a wonderful time to reflect on the last six and a half years. We’re probably all familiar with the President’s numerous debacles (so numerous, in fact, that DailyWrit’s word count limit won’t permit me to list them), [...]

The drums for withdraw grow louder each day as more and more bad news comes out of Iraq. With 3609 dead and counting, politicians and pundits are calling for withdrawal. Whether named a “redeployment” or the great escape, it’s doubtful that the current level of US involvement in Iraq is politically sustainable. Just ask President [...]

Bush’s decision today concerning Scooter Libby got me thinking. You might remember that I blogged recently about how history might ultimately remember President Bush. Similarily, there was a lot of talk in England last week about why that nation detested Blair so fervently. Several sources reached the conclusion that Blair’s faulty leadership on Iraq was [...]

President Bush’s policy of cronyism didn’t reach its worst today, but it was certainly as evident as ever. President Bush commuted Scooter Libby’s 30-month sentence down to probation and a fine. Fear not though, President Bush would never go so far as to pardon Libby- that would just be crazy. You can find the full [...]

Hello everybody, my name is Gary Wang. I’ll be blogging here on political affairs in the United States. Recently, the senate voted 56-43 to kill the bipartisan immigration reform bill. One the bill’s staunch opponents, Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) boasted on his senate website that “This act created a crisis of confidence in their government. [...]

I’m already getting pumped for the October 2007 Term. On Friday, the court issued its final orders for the semester and they decided to hear Boumediene v. Bush and its otherwise-unimportant sister-case Al Odah v. US. One of my first posts, back on April 3, discussed the rejection of Boumediene’s petition for trial. Justices Stevens [...]

…and black people, but try not to act too surprised. President Bush has been given his fair share of scrutiny by the left over appointments. The whole Harrient Miers fiasco didn’t work out as well as he would have hoped, although it stands to reason that it all worked out in the end. In 2005, [...]

The transition from Clinton to Bush was particularly challenging for the US Department of Justice. Along with the new administration came a new series of priorities, and an unhealthily low DoJ turnover rate. This morning, The New York Times indicted the Bush administration for fundamentally shifting the DoJ’s “civil rights mission” away from race (circa [...]

This year’s G8 summit appears to be one of the most productive in recent years. Thats not saying much though, since last year the only thing that came out of the G8 Summit in Russia was an awkward encouter between Papa Bush and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. This year, Merkel pushed through an environmental protection [...]