The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically.

The incubator for terrorism, after the Middle East, is Europe, partly because of proximity, partly because of the existence of large Muslim communities there.

If there were any clear investigation of 9/11, they wouldn't let Louie Freeh off the hook.

Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority.

Clinton took very tough decisions on the economy.

In a sense, George W. Bush has used the tragedy of the terrorist attacks of September 11th and the nightmarish expansion of his idea of a war on terror to overshadow his actual conduct in office on the redistribution of wealth upward through progressive tax cuts that actually penalize the vast majority of the public, and shift their resources to a narrow band at the very, very top.

Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.