No one seems to be writing opinion pieces quite the way I would, so I decided to do it myself.

The name? Taverns are places where one goes to discuss the interesting events and things in the world, so this is my tavern.

I will offer my views on politics, economics, and whatever else strikes my fancy.
I will occasionally publish the entire article from another journal for purposes of causing discussion.

 

Bad News for Bush

I have been asking when the media would wake up to how it is failing to do its job. Well, Gene Lyons offers a positive note for the country. Not good for Bush, but quite positive for the US.

The bad news for President Junior is that the intelligence agencies are fighting a bureaucratic rearguard action, the press has rediscovered its mission and Americans are awakening from a fearinduced post-9/11 trance to suspect that they were duped into an unnecessary war for dishonest reasons. A recent Harris poll shows 51 percent now "have doubts" that Bush is "a leader you can trust." Once lost, that trust is extremely hard to recover.

Read his article. He says a lot of what I have been trying to say, but he says it better.



posted by Richard at 10:17 AM