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A new Bush?
Tweet Share on Facebook August 23, 2006 CommentThere is something different about the way the president moves these days. There are remnants of the Bush arrogance (the man who once couldn't name any mistakes he might have made), and there's still that Texas swagger when he walks in a room. But lately, as he struggles to lead a country in which a majority opposes the war in Iraq--and his congressional majority hangs in the balance--there are signs of his own frustration with the hand he has dealt himself.
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Tax-cheating rich and the Republicans who battle their estate taxes
Tweet Share on Facebook August 1, 2006 CommentThis news may seem just a tad inconvenient for those Republicans working furiously to get rid of the estate tax. Democratic Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan unveiled a study this week about the tax-cheating rich. Surprise, surprise, they're using offshore bank accounts to hide their coffers--and there are so many accounts that the feds can barely even keep track.
Gloria Borger, a contributing editor at U.S.News & World Report, writes the magazine's On Politics column. Borger is also the national political correspondent for CBS and a regular panelist on the PBS public affairs program, Washington Week in Review. Borger is a 1974 graduate of Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y., and is now a member of the university's board of trustees.