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Dealing With the Reality of Cancer
Tweet Share on Facebook March 29, 2007 CommentFirst, Elizabeth Edwards announces that her breast cancer has returned and spread to her bones. Next, White House Press Secretary Tony Snow announces that his colon cancer has returned and spread to his liver. Yet, instead of treating this grim news as a death sentence, each patient has responded with a fight and a clear sense of direction: They're going to go on with their lives, and they're not just going to wait around for the cancer to win.
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Incompetence Reigns in Gonzales Flap
Tweet Share on Facebook March 20, 2007 CommentIf the Justice Department–and its leader–are to be held accountable, it should be for one thing: incompetence. The bungling of a simple proposition–U.S. attorneys serve at the pleasure of the president–could not get much worse. U.S. attorneys can be fired at any time, and while the start of the second term may be a strange time (it's more likely to be done when a president takes office in the first place), it's not totally out of the question.
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An Identity Crisis for Republicans
Tweet Share on Facebook March 13, 2007 CommentJudging from the CBS/New York Times poll released yesterday, Republican primary voters are having a real identity crisis. They've got about eight candidates running–and still counting–and yet 57 percent wish there were more choices. They're worried that the party has drifted away from the principles of Ronald Reagan. The only issue that unites Republicans, in fact, is the enemy: the Clintons.
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A Verdict That Leads to the Veep
Tweet Share on Facebook March 7, 2007 CommentIt took four years to investigate and then 10 days for jurors to finally decide the fate of former Cheney Chief of Staff Lewis "Scooter" Libby. And when they did, they delivered a verdict that shook the White House–leading right to the vice president's office.
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.