Wednesday's front page article from the New York Times was the usual anti-Bush liberal drivel that is to be expected from the Times. However, what was interesting was how the Fish Wrapper even uses pictures and captions to display its liberal bias.

President Bush pauses in his State of the Union address to Congress on Tuesday as Vice President Dick Cheney and Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., the first woman speaker of the House, find common ground for applause. Pelosi is second in the line of succession to the presidency; her seating behind Bush emphasizes her position to the nation.

I have yet to figure out why to many people - usually liberals - often times when evaluating someone for a position, it is much more important to focus on the race or gender of a person than on their qualifications.

I have seen it many times, in particular when people talk about the makeup of public safety agencies, or in sports leagues. We need more women, more blacks, more whatever - basically, anybody but white males. That is much more important than the person's qualifications.

Even though it is illegal to discriminate against people based on their race, gender, and other characteristics, for some reason that doesn't stop people from using that as a criteria.

As was to be expected, The Dead Fish Wrapper (along with the rest of the MSM) was drooling all over itself in its excitement that the Democrats control both houses of Congress. This is in stark contrast to the way they treated the Republicans when they came to power in 1994.

In addition, they trumpet the Dems talking about how they will work with the Republicans, but yet they hide the truth about how in reality they will be excluding the Republicans.

As with almost all Fish Wrapper articles in the front section, they come from the various wire services. The front page article was headlined "History reserves seat for Pelosi", and goes on and on about how the day belonged to Pelosi and all her quotes about partisanship.

Now that Nancy Pelosi has promised the most honest, most open, and most ethical Congress in history", the burden is on her to follow through. However, in discussing this, the New York Times still manages to let their liberal bias shine through, and the Fish Wrapper is oh so happy to publish it.

In giving examples of politicians who have been caught up in corruption scandals, they give a few examples: