BY JIM HIGHTOWER Scientifically speaking, the weasel is in the mustelidae family, but it is not the only burrowing rodent of its genus. There’s also the mustela congressa lobbyista, which is that mischievous grouping of Washington lobbyists who habitually team up with certain congress-critters to burrow loopholes in our country’s ethics laws. You might recall the big ethics reform […]

BY SUSAN ESTRICH Whatever it takes. Whatever Joe wants. That’s the short answer to what the Democrats will do to get health care reform passed. If Joe Lieberman doesn’t want 55-year-olds to buy into Medicare, they won’t. Poof. Gone. There is only one number that matters right now, and that number is 60. Anything that […]

BY KAREN WEBB In September, Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman was suggesting buying into Medicare as a replacement for a public option and now he is...

BY FROMA HARROP Sly industry-sponsored ads in which ordinary Americans worry about some scheme in Congress generally irritate me. A grunt greeted the TV spot you’ve no doubt seen: A woman unloading groceries frets over a proposed “tax on juice, milk and soda” as Americans like her count every penny. She doesn’t mention that the […]

BY CECIL ACUFF Husband-wife team Sy Miller and Jill Jackson wrote the song Let There Be Peace. In 1955, they introduced it to a group...