Tony Snow, regarding his new job: You never lie. You never try to shave the truth. But on the other hand, you’ve got to keep in mind the guy I’m working for is the president. His time spent at FOX “news” should prove to be wonderful training.

Chris did a good writeup of W’s recent strong words regarding oil. The problem is one of economics. Hybrids improve the fuel efficiency of cars. In a lot of economic models, when you can use a product more efficiently, this actually increases consumption of the product because suddenly it makes economic sense to use it [...]

Writing for Rolling Stone, Sean Wilentz wonders if George W. Bush is the worst president ever. Now, though, George W. Bush is in serious contention for the title of worst ever. In early 2004, an informal survey of 415 historians conducted by the nonpartisan History News Network found that eighty-one percent considered the Bush administration [...]

Carl Bernstein writes a well-considered call for a congressional investigations of the Bush administration. Perhaps there are facts or mitigating circumstances, given the extraordinary nature of conceiving and fighting a war on terror, that justify some of the more questionable policies and conduct of this presidency, even those that turned a natural disaster in New [...]