. . . and easily foreseeable. The revelation that former FBI #2 man Mark Felt was “Deep Throat” has spawned an unintentionally funny, um, headline: Bush Anxious to Learn More of Deep Throat Does Laura know?
Hiding The Truth
Why is the White House refusing to hand over NSA documents regarding Bolton, so that the Senate can confirm/deny him as UN Ambassador? Is it national security, or is someone’s ass being covered? In tomorrow’s New York Times, an article will appear suggesting that the White House is holding the documents tight to the chest because they contain the names … Read More
The Education President
Republicans just shouldn’t be in the education business. Not since Quayle instructed a student to spell the word potato incorrectly, have we seen a boner like this: It seemed like to me they based some of their decisions on the word of—and the allegations—by people who were held in detention, people who hate America, people that had been trained in … Read More
New Rule on Amnesty International
NEW RULE: Amnesty International is a legitimate source for human rights violations of other countries, but is an unreliable and irresponsible source for reporting on the U.S. On March 27, 2003, Rumsfeld said: We know that it’s a repressive regime…Anyone who has read Amnesty International or any of the human rights organizations about how the regime of Saddam Hussein treats … Read More
Quotes That Make You Go “Hmmmmmm”
"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." — President Bush, 5/24/05 Oh yes, George. We know, we know. TOO-GOOD-TO-LEAVE-IN-THE-COMMENTS-SECTION UPDATE: Lizard Queen completes the circle, by comparing the Bush quote to FDR’s: "Repetition does not transform a … Read More
The McClellan Challenge
L’il Scotty McClellan throws down the gauntlet: “In terms of the intelligence, the – if anyone wants to know how the intelligence was used by the administration, all they have to do is go back and look at all the public comments over the course of the lead-up to the war in Iraq, and that’s all very public information. Everybody … Read More
Lies and the Lies About the Lies
Editor and Publisher notes how Scotty McClennan is now denying that he ever suggested that the Newsweek article caused death in Afghanistan: At a White House press briefing Monday, Press Secretary Scott McClellan, pressed by reporters and with Afghan President Karzai in disagreement, retreated on claims that Newsweek’s retracted story on Koran abuse cost lives in Afghanistan. He also claimed … Read More
Hiding From The Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Trall
Uses for a towel: “wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Trall (a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you–daft as a brush, but very very ravenous).”—from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Apparently, HGTG is a book read by … Read More
GOP Titanic Sinking — Repubs Blame Newsweek
Poll taken 5/11-15. Margin of Error=4%. (March 2005 results in parentheses) Bush approval ratings Approve 43 (49) Disapprove 50 (46) Congressional Republicans Approve 35 (39) Disapprove 50 (44) Congressional Democrats Approve 39 (37) Disapprove 41 (44) Latest Pew Poll From social security bamboozlement to Schiavo to “nuclear options” to Delay to hyperkinetic ‘blame the media” fits, the American public knows … Read More
Stem Cells
Excellent news on the stem cell front: even Republicans want to ditch George Bush’s lame and indefensible restrictions on embryonic stem cell research. In a recent poll of Republicans — in which 90% approved of Bush’s performance in general — a solid 57% said they favored embryonic stem cell research. What will Bush do? Legislation to open up stem cell … Read More
WHO Is Against People Of Faith?
This past weekend, there was a liberal-bashing conference put on by Family Research Council in which it was said — falsely — that Democrats are against "people of faith", particularly judges. It’s an insidious lie. Most Democrats are people of faith; we just don’t believe that our faith (or anybody else’s) should be incorporated into laws and public policy (because … Read More
Why Does The Media Still Refer To Him As A “Popular President”?
This is not good news for Bush: The last month has not been a good one for President Bush and the Republicans. Most people have opposed the President’s proposals for reforming Social Security and most were unhappy with the positions taken by Republicans in the Terri Schiavo case. The result is that the president’s job ratings have fallen to 44 … Read More
Lies
First, a Bush lie: Bush on the Armstrong Williams payola scandal in a press conference, January 26, 2005: And we didn’t know about this in the White House . . . Page 8 footnote of the Inspector General’s Report, Department of Education, concerning the Armstrong Williams payola scandal, released Friday: "During a meeting between the White House and Department officials … Read More
George Bush Does A Number From “A Chorus Line”
"Again! And step, leap, leap, and kick, touch!"
Bubbling Crude, Black Gold
I think you can see where Andrew Tobias is going, when he writes: President Bush is an oil man. His pappy is an oil man. His VP is an oil man. His pals and his family’s pals are oil men. His virtual brother, Prince Bandar “Bush,” and the Saudi Royal Family generally, to whom the Bushes are closely tied, are … Read More