By Denis Campbell
It was a great election (duh-dum) wasn’t it? A new Democratic President (duh-dum), bigger majorities in the House and Senate (duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh… duhdadeeee) and nothing can go wrong… AEEIIIIIII!!!!! Apologies to John Williams, Peter Benchley and the cast of Jaws, what the heck is going on in the Senate?!?
OK, it was cute that both [...]

 

By Denis Campbell
If you liked the US election, you’re gonna love the upcoming PPV steel cage match in the planet’s greatest political theatre. Steps away from London’s West End houses offering titles: Wicked, Les Miserables and The Mousetrap, the House of Parliament’s Prime Minister’s Question Time should be highly entertaining as both parties attempt to [...]

 

New York Times Op-Ed 
Screenplay by
Maureen Dowd
Revised third draft
© Oct. 29, 2008
FADE IN:
INT. A HOTEL SUITE — in the middle of the day in the middle of Ohio.
NICOLLE WALLACE, a slender, preppie-looking blonde wearing a string of pearls is pacing and frantically thumbing her BlackBerry. She is a top McCain adviser under STEVE SCHMIDT who has [...]

 

by Denis Campbell
Look how the self-righteous are coming out of the woodwork to save their collective endangered backsides now that one of their own is in big trouble. John McCain led the charge calling on Alaska Senator Ted Stevens to resign from his Senate seat. Was that ‘Country First’ or ‘Save Me First,’ Senator? 
The message [...]

by Charley James
I suppose when the Republican vice presidential candidate is discovered spending $150,000 on a campaign wardrobe, it’s hard for the GOP to remember being shocked – Shocked, I tell you! – over John Edwards’ $400 haircut.
It’s even harder to be publicly outraged over the price of haircuts when the party can’t really figure [...]

 

by Denis Campbell
Alaska was a shoe-in 3 electoral vote state for McCain-Palin. Yeah there was corruption everywhere and Senator-for-life Ted Steven’s jury still cannot throw the rude renegade jury lady out as they deliberate his fate. But Sarah was the golden girl?!? She was gonna energise the base. She got that pipeline goin’ for all [...]

 
by Denis Campbell
When the circus act of Sarah Palin and Cindy McCain whipped up crowds into a seething frenzy; where was the US Secret Service? That is the group designated to protect all four candidates (and the President and Vice President) from threats. When the McPalin gals incited hatred and anger with their indignation, mock [...]

 

By Denis Campbell
Pssst, buddy, wanna buy a Presidency? It’s gonna cost ya! A truism in life I learned, is when a person with money meets a person with experience, the person with the experience ends up with the money and the person with the money ends up with an experience.
National campaigns are the ultimate Washington [...]

 
By Denis Campbell
“Kill him” and “terrorist” were hollered by audiences this past weekend in stump speeches by Sarah Palin and John McCain. Just as when McCain was asked “how do we beat the bitch…” he smiled and waved like the mischievous penguins in the kids film Madagascar.
Sorry but threatening someone under United States Secret Service [...]

by Charley James
Journalist’s sense of self-worth should be just a little bit higher today, even with the damning piece I wrote about them yesterday: Sarah Palin doesn’t

hate you! Or resent you or fear you or think she’s better than you or whatever! She actually kinda? likes you! So much, in fact, that she reads all [...]