"I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure you're not Hitler." – Jon Stewart
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 24th, 2008
Heckofajob Bushie: U.S. war costs in Iraq up: report – Yahoo! News “Funding for U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and other activities in the war on terrorism expanded significantly in 2007,” the Congressional Budget Office said in a report released on Wednesday. War funding, which averaged about $93 billion a year from 2003 through [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 24th, 2008
How long will I, my child and grandchildren be paying for the worst security and foreign policy error in American history. Bush doesn’t care as long has he can leave office and dump the mess on whoever wins the White House in November. Whatever happened to the idea that Iraq would pay for itself? Disappeared [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 14th, 2008
This was an old article that I had never seen before. It has a definite illuminating effect. I read it and thought, “This is what’s wrong with the White House”. The certainty of a true-believer leaves no room for doubt, argument, questions, or has become painfully obvious, facts. The New York Times > Magazine > [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 12th, 2008
US Appellate Court, DC circuit holds that innocent people held as prisoners and tortured in US custody are essentialy a sort of judicial unperson. McClatchy Washington Bureau | 01/11/2008 | In voiding suit, appellate court says torture is to be expected The detainees allege that they were held in stress positions, interrogated for sessions lasting [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 6th, 2008
George McGovern lays out a powerful argument for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney: Why I Believe Bush Must Go – washingtonpost.com Bush and Cheney are clearly guilty of numerous impeachable offenses. They have repeatedly violated the Constitution. They have transgressed national and international law. They have lied to the American people time after time. [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 1st, 2008
Wow, it’s like evil vs evil: When the RIAA loses its mind – The Carpetbagger Report Matt Yglesias noted that, given this RIAA position, Hillary Clinton might be vulnerable to an expensive lawsuit, but I’d set my sights a little higher: In the video linked below, we see that President Bush’s iPod contains songs by [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 1st, 2008
Looking at America – New York Times We can only hope that this time, unlike 2004, American voters will have the wisdom to grant the awesome powers of the presidency to someone who has the integrity, principle and decency to use them honorably. Then when we look in the mirror as a nation, we will [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Dec 19th, 2007
The New York Times reports: One former senior intelligence official with direct knowledge of the matter said there had been “vigorous sentiment” among some top White House officials to destroy the tapes. The former official did not specify which White House officials took this position, but he said that some believed in 2005 that any [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Dec 16th, 2007
The Economic Consequences of Mr. Bush: Politics & Power: vanityfair.com Writing in Vanity Fair Joseph Stiglitz, former head of Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers, offers a blistering exposition of the long term damage done to the American economy by the Bush administration. Sadly I don’t think the current political environment lends itself to making the [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Dec 16th, 2007
White House hints, but won’t say, that waterboarding is legal – The Carpetbagger Report A CIA employee says they used waterboarding on a prisoner. The US uses only legal methods of interrogation. Therefore waterboarding is legal. Seems pretty straight forward, but the White House spokesperson Dana Perino refuses to say if it’s legal or not. [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Dec 16th, 2007
Apparently all are “quaint” notions. Has widely reported all over the place: Wider Spying Fuels Aid Plan for Telecom Industry – New York Times But the battle is really about something much bigger. At stake is the federal government’s extensive but uneasy partnership with industry to conduct a wide range of secret surveillance operations in [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Dec 16th, 2007
Bush tax changes wreck budget All true believers in in the tax fairey (GOP candidates I’m talking to you) should be forced to view the graphs in this EPI story like Alex in “A Clockwork Orange” until they’re eyes bleed. It’s not Medicare, Social Security or Medicaid that truly threatens our national fiscal future. It’s [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Dec 14th, 2007
Coming soon, to a shredder near you – The Carpetbagger Report Exactly why is there so much paper they never want anyone to see? “The Wonkette says You better get crackin’, Dick — that evidence won’t destroy itself!”
Posted in Blog Post on Dec 9th, 2007
Ezra Klein: “Time to Talk to Iran” A salivating ultra-hawk admits that the recent Iran NIE makes the chances of a strike against Iran extremely unlikely. Thank God.
Posted in Blog Post on Dec 4th, 2007
US: Iran halted weapons program in 2003 – Yahoo! News Wow that’s good news. I guess the president will have to back off the bellicose saber rattling directed at Iran, right? No so much: President George W. Bush said on Tuesday that Iran remains a danger despite a U.S. intelligence report that Tehran halted its [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Nov 26th, 2007
Firedoglake – Firedoglake weblog » Sunday Late Nite: Thank You, Harry Reid Or at least spine-like. Maybe he can be upgraded from chordate to vertebrate. After being repeatedly burned congressional democrats finally learn the simple truth, that much like a 6 year old with a pack of matches Mr. Bush simply cannot be trusted. The [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Nov 21st, 2007
McClellan points finger at Bush, Rove – Mike Allen and Michael Calderone – Politico.com The only thing notable about this is that Sweaty Scott blames his masters for feeding him lies. I wonder, does he blame his parents for his excessive credulity and gullibility?
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 16th, 2007
Iran wants Western “apology” after IAEA report – Yahoo! News Iran called on its Western foes on Friday to apologize to the Islamic Republic after the release of a U.N. nuclear agency report which Tehran said showed it had been telling the truth about its atomic plans, according to state media. I think the past [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Nov 15th, 2007
Reid may hold pro forma Senate sessions to block Bush recess appointments – AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth From Roll Call by way of Americablog, senate majority leader Harry Reid is going to block Bush recess appointments by not going into recess. He also calls into question the Chuck Schumer’s contention that he [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Nov 13th, 2007
I’ve been listening to CNN bitch about the accusation that a Clinton campaign staffer planted a question during an event. They never seem the least bit interested in noting that the Bush advance team goes to great lengths to make sure Dubya never gets a question harder than “Why are you so great at keeping [...]
Date: 02/28/2006