Bush and the permanent campaign
Dear editor, praise God; unlikely people can wake up! Former White House Press Secretary and Bush loyalist, Scott McClellan, in a just-released book, confesses that instead of effective and honest government, Americans were subjected by the Bush administration to a “permanent campaign” that was “all about manipulating sources of public opinion to the president’s advantage” and that Bush relied on an aggressive “political propaganda campaign” instead of the truth to sell the Iraq war.
Of new taxes and skunks
Dear editor, I was stunned to hear that the Napa County Supervisors decided not to place the new tax on the ballot for road repairs.