The New York Times reported a quote from George Bush earlier this week (it might have been last weekend, i tore the quote out but didn't note the date). that caught my eye for the extreme absurdity of it.

I just finished the Mark Warner profile piece in the NYT Magazine/

Mark seems like a good guy. Would probably make a good president and will be a decent candidate, he might be able to capture the nomination. But do the dems really want Mark Warner? He would be perhaps the most centrist democratic presidential candidate in history. Haven't we realized we can't beat the republicans by being the tru compassionate conservatives? That is not the point of this post though.

Paul Krugman has a great piece in the NYT yesterday [l:http://select.nytimes.com/gst/tsc.html?URI=http://select.nytimes.com/2005/12/30/opinion/30krugman.html&OP=776d72aQ2FoQ3FbQ22oQ3CHQ51ppQ3CoQ5ENN7oQ2FQ5EokNopV(E(pEokNQ7CQ51Q26fn2E0Q25Q3Cnj|unfortunately it is behind a pay-wall]. But Heck of a Jon, Bushie is a nice recap of all all the scandal and dissapointment and corruption flowing out of the Bush adminsitration and the Republican party.