Friday night is trash day in politics. All of the stuff that a campaign, or even the White House, has to get out to the media but really doesn’t want covered is thrown out on Friday. Former Senator Phil Gramm’s resignation from Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign was announced this evening. It is widely believed Gramm was one of the chief architects of McCain’s economic plan.
President George W. Bush has the ability to ignore real, hard, solid facts. We have seen this time and time again. Last week, Bush refused to admit that the economy was in a recession. This was after Warren Buffett, who is arguably the most successful businessman of the last 30 years, said we are in a recession. Today, Bush acknowledged that the economy “obviously is going through a tough time.” Well, I guess that’s something. JP Morgan along with the Feds is backing Bear Stearns, a huge investment bank. As I have said before, there is going to be fall out
I was on call last night. I had an opportunity to watch the news. There has been a media frenzy over Elliot Spitzer. New information was being served up almost continuously. Spitzer was thought to be Client #9 in federal papers. Next, we found out that he reportedly paid these high classed hookers $1500 per hour. Only a couple of hours later we found out about a weekend that he went to DC and spent some time with “Kristen”. This morning or late last night we heard that he may have spent over $80,000 over several years. Reports of carefully planned
Dr. Thompson is a surgeon, scholar, full-time sports fan and part-time political activist. He is active in a number of community projects and initiatives. Through medicine, he strives to improve the physical health of all he treats.
