Archives for the 'Bush' Category
Bully Pulpit
Published on 15 May 2008 at 12:59 pm.
10 Comments.
Filed under pols, GWOT, Bush.
Bush observes out loud that Obama and other dems are pro-appeasement. CNN:
No Play Cheap Shots
Published on 14 May 2008 at 12:15 am.
7 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, Bush, moronocy.
Bush says that out of respect for the war dead and their families, he decided to stop playing golf during wartime. AFP:
Ambassadorable
Published on 8 May 2008 at 12:02 pm.
No Comments.
Filed under pols, Bush.
Jenna’s tying the knot. Boston Herald’s Jill Radsken reviews the rambunctious party girl’s career to date:
Laura Bush Derangement Syndrome
Published on 30 Apr 2008 at 10:50 pm.
9 Comments.
Filed under Bush, fishwrap, women, feminism.
Looks like a lot like bulimia as sexist SF Chron lefty Mark Morford brings up a lukewarm puddle of half-digested feminist junkfood cliches in this slam on Laura Bush: “Docile doormat … prim, sexless, nearly useless.”
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Making History
Published on 14 Apr 2008 at 11:28 pm.
6 Comments.
Filed under Bush, history.
Making it up. Making a mockery of it. Ninety-eight percent of historians polled consider Bush a failure. US News and World Report:
Justice, Ground Slow
Published on 5 Mar 2008 at 9:27 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under Bush, Cheney, moronocy.
Brattleboro votes to arrest Bush. Cheney, too. If they ever show up. But why wait? Impeach now! Or maybe in six weeks. If the Dems manage to choose a nominee by then, they’ll need another ridiculous spectacle to demonstrate leadership, priorities.
Here’s The Deal
Published on 13 Feb 2008 at 6:56 am.
6 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, pols, military, Bush.
Rice and Gates, Washington Post, on the U.S.-Iraq strategic deal. They note that the UN authorization will run out at the end of the year, and its time for normalized relations between two sovereign nations with closely tied interests. Here’s what it will be and what it won’t be:
Water Over Dam
Published on 6 Feb 2008 at 9:06 pm.
3 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, Bush.
Backs up. Bush offered to discuss waterboarding. Congress responded with a call for a criminal investigation. Better make sure they look at all the Dems who got briefed and didn’t say boo. That doesn’t get a mention in this article.
Truthers Gain Traction
Published on 4 Feb 2008 at 11:32 am.
8 Comments.
Filed under pols, Bush, moronocy.
Where else? Patriot-Ledger of Massachusetts:
Arrest Him!
Published on 31 Jan 2008 at 9:26 am.
11 Comments.
Filed under Bush, moronocy.
After impeaching him! Now!
Brattleboro’s Bush warrant irks wingnuts. What’s the matter with these wingnuts? Jimmie at the Sundries Shack shares my enthusiasm for a Vermont war crimes tribunal, impeachment, etc.
More Brattleboro news here: Downtown nudity, long walks down the East Coast.
Eponymously Speaking
Published on 30 Jan 2008 at 9:49 pm.
1 Comment.
Filed under Bush.
I find it hard to argue with any of the points Bill Kristol is making here.
SOTU
Published on 29 Jan 2008 at 12:25 am.
2 Comments.
Filed under Bush.
Crittenden, with another shameless Chimpy plug, here.
It’s a Bushbashapalooza as Newsbusters rounds up, cocks an eye at the SOTU reax: MSNBC, Fibber McGee!; WaPo chief, bored, doesn’t trust failed prez; CBS, CNN, Bush Redux, No Humanity.
Surber: Iraq … fourth? Tigerhawk: Yeah, but …
Powerline: A speech divided against itself.
Gateway with the Dem response: “Workers Unite! Socialism Now!”
Rich Lowry, NY […]
Good Exercise
Published on 27 Jan 2008 at 9:09 pm.
6 Comments.
Filed under Bush, moronocy.
Vermont prof walking 400 miles for Bush impeachment. Earth Times:
Multi-Million $$$ Bush Bash
Published on 24 Jan 2008 at 11:13 pm.
7 Comments.
Filed under Bush.
Apparently the Iraq war, Gitmo, trampling of constitutional rights, failure to catch bin Laden, Katrina, bipartisanly despised immigration bill, Plamegate … heck, I can’t remember all of it, but seven years of Bush bumbling and Bush lies and Bush looking like a chimp just didn’t do it. Lefty group will have to spend $8.5 million […]
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Eminence L’oser
Published on 6 Jan 2008 at 8:25 am.
10 Comments.
Filed under pols, Bush, moronocy.
Wants to help the Democrats do today what he did in ‘72. “Why I believe George Bush Must Go,” George McGovern op-ed, Washington Post:
Leadership Unfollowed, Mission Unaccomplished
Published on 21 Dec 2007 at 2:22 pm.
4 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, pols, Bush.
It might be time to try something new, like a) leading and b) winning. Politico re Dem Cong’s scratchy record and a new tune being sung by the membership:
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Everything’s Coming Up Bush’s
Published on 12 Dec 2007 at 7:26 am.
9 Comments.
Filed under Bush.
From Iraq to taxes, a bedraggled Bush is blooming. Not that anyone would notice. Almost anyone. Former Bush-Cheney minion Ron Christie at The Hill:
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Bush for Hill
Published on 22 Nov 2007 at 8:11 am.
1 Comment.
Filed under pols, Bush, Clintons.
Prez comes down on Hill side of experience debate. Marriage to Bill trumps Who Wants to Date a Despot. Newsday:
Rush to Plame
Published on 22 Nov 2007 at 8:10 am.
1 Comment.
Filed under Bush.
Publisher finds fault with reports that Chimpy McRoveCheney admin made McClellan lie:
Sleepwalking Through History
Published on 18 Nov 2007 at 10:46 am.
7 Comments.
Filed under pols, GWOT, Bush.
Michael Goodwin at NYDN:
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Revolution Vs. Totalitarian Nightmare Please
Published on 11 Nov 2007 at 10:58 am.
25 Comments.
Filed under pols, media, Bush.
Celebrate the confirmation of Torturer General Mukasey with Frank Rich at NYT, as he laments the Coup at Home!
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BDS
Published on 10 Nov 2007 at 9:10 am.
9 Comments.
Filed under media, Bush.
Now, here’s an interesting example of what Lieberman was talking about, when he talked about people whose Bush rage blinds them to the threat posed by those who are murdering American soldiers. But this isn’t a Democratic member of Congress. One of their water carriers.
Good News = Bad News
Published on 8 Nov 2007 at 6:09 am.
10 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, Bush.
Iraqpundit:
Before you start calling me names, let me say something. Nobody’s saying everything’s back to normal.
That’s Entertainment
Published on 7 Nov 2007 at 10:15 am.
2 Comments.
Filed under Bush.
Bush-bashing with the stars!
World War III
Published on 21 Oct 2007 at 12:29 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under Iran, Russia, Israel, Bush.
As viewed from New York, Tel Aviv, Tehran, Moscow and Washington. It’s a reality check:
NYT History 101
Published on 7 Oct 2007 at 9:12 am.
6 Comments.
Filed under media, Bush, history.
NYT ed board needs a Chomsky session. The doctor is Zinn. Because NYT ed board this morning looks a little rusty on NYT ed board’s lefty history:
Inform Please
Published on 27 Sep 2007 at 11:17 pm.
17 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, pols, Bush.
Juan Cole of Informed Comment makes the uninformed remark that the Bush-Aznar exchange about the possibility of Saddam going into exile in Saudi with “$1 billion and all the information he wants about weapons of mass destruction” is an impeachable statement, because it indicates war could have been avoided:
Cutting Room Floor
Published on 27 Sep 2007 at 9:39 am.
17 Comments.
Filed under Bush, Hollywood.
Tigerhawk informs us Robert Redford is planning a blockbuster on Richard Clarke’s “Against All Enemies,” and wonders what manner of Gore won’t be included in this tragic epic of Bush lied people died.*
Speaking of the Gore that was and the Gore that is, Driscoll proposes a compromise.
* Help Bob! Alternate titles encouraged in comments.
Active Astonishment
Published on 26 Sep 2007 at 8:10 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under Bush.
Lest anyone lose sight of the true threat to world peace, who’s trampling all over human rights amid all this attention on Ahmadinejad, McClatchy Newspapers’ Washington Bureau goes sniffing around for some Bush-bash. Astonishingly, McClatchy finds activists astounded:
Mission of Burma*
Published on 25 Sep 2007 at 9:16 pm.
3 Comments.
Filed under asia, Bush, UN.
Burma news from Buddhist to Belmont Bangkok to Beijing on Bush. Monks defy military junta. Junta imposes a curfew and bans gatherings of more than five people. I don’t think the monks intend to back down. The old geezer in the orange robes looks PO’d.
Belmont Club’s Richard Fernandez at Pajamas on Burma’s “Saffron Revolution” cites Bangkok Pundit and […]
Bush Talk
Published on 14 Sep 2007 at 9:46 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, Bush.
Bush speech here. Blah blah blah here:
Hail to the Chimp
Published on 11 Sep 2007 at 11:49 pm.
7 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, pols, Bush.
Thursday night, our president will address the nation, and show us the way forward.
Gettysburg
Published on 3 Sep 2007 at 10:42 pm.
1 Comment.
Filed under Iraq, pols, Bush, history.
That’s what Frederick Kagan is calling the al-Asad summit, and everything it represents.
There are a lot of different ways to read a Gettysburg analogy, from 2oth Maine at Little Round Top to Pickett’s Charge, to turning back Lee’s Army and turning the tide in a war, to galvanizing a nation and generations to follow with a few […]
Bush in Iraq
Published on 3 Sep 2007 at 7:57 am.
13 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, Bush.
NPR reporting he’s landed, enroute to an econmic summit in Australia. Web reports now coming in.
AP: He’s in Anbar, landed at Al-Asad.
CNN here, BBC here. More on-air from Beeb, currently reporting he’s expected to meet with al-Maliki and Sunni tribal leaders who’ve joined the United States and the Iraqi government against al-Qaeda. Condoleezza Rice and Stephen Hadley flew […]
There’s Shinola, Then There’s …
Published on 11 Aug 2007 at 8:06 pm.
4 Comments.
Filed under blogs, Bush.
Lefty self-enthusiast Greenwald, citing Russian “coerced interrogation techniques” and a wiretap law in Zimbabwe, apparently can’t tell the difference between the United States and the abovementioned, between a state of war and states of oppression. This is not a big surprise, however, as he has been known to have trouble distinguishing himself (and his boyfriend) from his sockpuppet, also, […]
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Dick and George
Published on 10 Aug 2007 at 9:51 am.
20 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, Iran, Bush, Cheney.
See Mahmoud arm terrorists. See George charge Mahmoud with meddling. See Dick urge strikes:
Buy My Cousin’s Book
Published on 26 Jul 2007 at 11:08 pm.
3 Comments.
Filed under Bush.
The lovely and talented Danielle Crittenden’s been having fun with our Dear Leader, Chimpy McHitlerburton. Buy it here. For crazy simian IM fun, go here.
Seven Wonders
Published on 20 Jul 2007 at 11:21 pm.
4 Comments.
Filed under Bush.
Memri brings Arab columnists’ take on the Seven Wonders of the World. A couple of them wonder at the near total dysfunction of the Muslim world. But I like this one from a Syrian wiseacre:
Kristol Clear
Published on 15 Jul 2007 at 12:30 pm.
19 Comments.
Filed under Bush, history.
Bill Kristol willingly exposes himself to ridicule with claim that Bush admin will be remembered as a success.
Darn You, George Bush
Published on 27 Jun 2007 at 8:44 am.
5 Comments.
Filed under Bush.
Surber on the news that the deficit is plummeting on George Bush’s watch. Sheesh. Can’t that guy do anything right?
While you’re at it, check Surber on forward thinking in West By God Virginia re the nation’s weight issue: “No Child Left Inside.”
Bush’s Fault
Published on 15 Jun 2007 at 1:28 pm.
9 Comments.
Filed under Bush, Palestinians.
Of course. It has nothing to do with the Palestinian people’s decision to elect a terrorist organization to its government, or the failure of moderate leaders to rid themselves of corruption and exercise true leadership.
George Bush’s Exceedingly, Surprisingly, Very and Quite Long Goodbye
Published on 11 Jun 2007 at 10:32 pm.
15 Comments.
Filed under Bush.
I think we can now officially call this a lame-duck Congress:
WaPo: No-confidence resolution against Gonzales fails in the Senate.
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Can’t Take Him Anywhere
Published on 10 Jun 2007 at 6:39 am.
6 Comments.
Filed under Bush, Pope.
Damned cowboy!
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Pretty Bad But Not Jimmy Carter Bad
Published on 25 May 2007 at 12:06 am.
5 Comments.
Filed under USA, Bush.
Gerard Baker in the Times of London:
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War Hero
Published on 18 May 2007 at 11:00 am.
4 Comments.
Filed under Bush.
… awards George Bush a Purple Heart.
Here’s Looking At You, Liz
Published on 8 May 2007 at 10:54 am.
6 Comments.
Filed under Britain, Bush.
George winks at Her Majesty. Her Majesty does not look amused. Is this how you address your monarch, you blasted colonial!?!
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The Only Good Cowboy is a French Cowboy
Published on 8 May 2007 at 7:22 am.
13 Comments.
Filed under Bush, France.
New York Times, impressed when Sarkozy cowboys up. Hey, what about this cowboy?
Sarkozy’s a literate, sensitive cowboy. He does say some of that distasteful cowboy stuff sometimes. But Schumer likes the way he looks in a cowboy suit. He wouldn’t do anything crazy like go charging off half-cocked after that Sioux war party up on the hill. He’s one erudite cowboy. […]
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Sink, Please
Published on 7 May 2007 at 11:45 pm.
9 Comments.
Filed under Bush.
Kenneth T. Walsh and US News & World Report add one more to the pile of articles that have reported on the demise of the Bush administration, its loss of power, etc. “A Sinking Presidency” brushes quickly over the fact that Bush just won the veto fight, and instead of noting the Democrats have little choice but […]
His Ill-Mannered Chimpiness
Published on 6 May 2007 at 7:51 pm.
13 Comments.
Filed under Britain, Bush.
George II. He is our leader. We will follow him blindly. As long as he keeps doing everything Our Dark Lords Rove and Cheney and the Wifey/Librarian say. NYT:
WASHINGTON, May 4 — How does George W. Bush, a towel-snapping Texan who puts his feet on the coffee table, drinks water straight from the bottle and was […]
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Get Your Third World On!
Published on 11 Mar 2007 at 10:31 pm.
4 Comments.
Filed under USA, asia, Bush, chavez.
… get it here. Crittenden at PJM.
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