"Be assured: Baghdad is safe, protected.” “We are in control, they are not in control of anything, they don’t even control themselves!” “They are becoming hysterical. This is the result of frustration.” “They are achieving nothing; they are suffering from casualties. Those casualties are increasing, not decreasing." Quotes from Dick Cheney? Nope, but I can understand why you might think … Read More
Invocation of the 9/11 Dead – The Families React To Rove
As families whose relatives were victims of the 9/11 terror attacks, we believe it is an outrage that any Democrat, any Republican, any conservative, or any liberal stakes a “high ground” position based upon the September 11th death and destruction. Doing so assumes that all those who died and their loved ones would agree. In truth, some would and some … Read More
Responses to Rove, the Douchebag
Speaking in a Manhattan ballroom just a few miles north of ground zero, Karl Rove said on Wednesday night that the Democratic party did not understand the consequences of the Sept. 11 attacks. “Liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers,” Rove said. “Conservatives saw the savagery … Read More
What Time Is It?
Bush is plummeting in the polls, republicans and public support are turning against Bush on social security, the War in Iraq, and John Bolton, and everybody’s talking about the hyped-up and “fixed” pre-war intelligence. You know what that means, right? Yup, it’s time for Bush to energize his base by going after the gays. Nothing like playing upon middle America’s … Read More
Egregious Is As Egregious Does
"I thought Durbin was totally out of line. I watched some of his comments on the floor of the United States Senate. For him to make those comparisons was one of the more egregious things I’d ever heard uttered on the floor of the United States Senate." — Vice President Dick Cheney, in an interview with radio host Steve Gill. … Read More
White House and White Outs
Think Progress has a nice link-o-riffic list of the many many instances in which the Bush White House has altered or buried expert analysis when the facts didn’t jibe with the adminsitration’s policies. The full text is below. Read it, and ask yourself, are we to believe the fixing of facts around policy didn’t happen with respect to Iraq? Cattle … Read More
The Shittiest Job On The Planet
No doubt, it belongs to White House Press Secretary Scotty McClellan. The poor guy has to get up in front of the press corp and explain (or explain away) the unexplainable deceptions of the Bush Administration. It can’t be easy. From E&P, here’s an awkward exchange between Scotty and reporter Terry Moran. Moran is referring to Cheney’s recent comment on … Read More
Lame Duck Bush
There’s no other way to view it—even conservative Republicans are backing away from Bush: The [Republican-controlled] House handed President Bush the first defeat in his effort to preserve the broad powers of the USA Patriot Act, voting yesterday to curtail the FBI’s ability to seize library and bookstore records for terrorism investigations. Bush has threatened to veto any measure that … Read More
ExxonMobil-Cooney Timeline
I could rant and rave about the White House’s ass-licking of the oil industry, but sometimes all it takes is to let the facts speak for themselves: Seven days ago: "President’s George Bush’s decision not to sign the United States up to the Kyoto global warming treaty was partly a result of pressure from ExxonMobil, the world’s most powerful oil … Read More
Atta-in-Prague Revisited
Anyone who thinks the Bush Administration was victim to flawed intelligence, take note: BUSH ADMINISTRATION TO PUBLIC: “Well, what we now have that’s developed since you and I last talked, Tim, of course, was that report that–it’s been pretty well confirmed that he [9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta] did go to Prague and he did meet with a senior official of … Read More
Pssst – George! It’s Time To Raise The Terror Alert Level!
Even I am surprised at the Bush sinking ship: Poll: Bush Job Approval Dips to New Low WASHINGTON—As the war in Iraq drags on, President Bush’s job approval and the public’s confidence in the direction he’s taking the nation are at their lowest levels since The Associated Press-Ipsos poll began in December 2003. About one-third of adults, 35 percent, said … Read More
Factoid Du Jour
Bush’s approval rating (around 47%) is about twenty points lower than Clinton’s was around the time of his impeachment. Popular president, my ass.
More Playing Politics With Science
More evidence of expert assessments being “massaged” at the White House here: A White House official who once led the oil industry’s fight against limits on greenhouse gases has repeatedly edited government climate reports in ways that play down links between such emissions and global warming, according to internal documents. In handwritten notes on drafts of several reports issued in … Read More
Another Gets Unplugged From The Matrix
Read the whole thing: Two years ago I was a neocon. I supported Bush’s war on Iraq and I called everyone who didn’t a liberal Kool-aid drinker. I voted for Bush in 2000 and I listened to Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and just about any right-winger on the radio that I could get a four-word talking point from to use … Read More
Finally!
"When I go back (to Washington) on Monday, I am going to raise the issue,” he said of the memo, which has not been disputed by either the British or American governments. “I think it’s a stunning, unbelievably simple and understandable statement of the truth and a profoundly important document that raises stunning issues here at home. And it’s amazing … Read More