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10/31/05 :: By P. M. Carpenter As Good As It Gets?Categories :: Bush Administration
The Lewis Libby indictment is an overdue rein on the cowboys of the Bush administration. Finally, some accountability is demanded. Finally, the kneecapping suffered by anyone who publicly questions this White House is being revealed. Finally, a little slice of...
09/26/05 :: By P. M. Carpenter Now for something completely differentCategories :: Bush Administration
The most uplifting piece of political commentary I have read in years - and I mean that literally - has come from the pen of none other than right-winger Robert Novak. His column last week filled me with hope. I...
09/23/05 :: By P. M. Carpenter Right answers, wrong questionsCategories :: Bush Administration
Bush’s approval rating is finally beginning to slide into Herbert Hoover territory. He has a long history of doing what he shouldn’t have and not doing what he should have; and voters, whose political consciousness always suffers from attention deficit,...
09/21/05 :: By P. M. Carpenter Abbott and Costello Meet RealityCategories :: Bush Administration
In a speech at Brown University, John Kerry said Katrina had "stripped away any image of competence and exposed to all the true heart and nature of this administration. The truth is that for four and a half years, real...
09/19/05 :: By P. M. Carpenter Rich beyond opinionCategories :: Bush Administration
In a perfect world every Bush supporter would be required by law to read Frank Rick of the New York Times. Of course, in a perfect world there would be no need for such a law, because a president by...
09/08/05 :: By P. M. Carpenter Indulging GeorgeCategories :: Bush Administration
George Lakoff, the political guru who wields cognitive linguistics as an analytical weapon, has written extensively about what you might call tough-love conservatism and how the mental framework of tough love (theoretically) dominates hard-core conservatives’ thinking and their behavior toward...
09/07/05 :: By S.M. Dixon It’s the National Security, StupidCategories :: Bush Administration
Thanks to Hurricane Katrina, we now know the true extent of the Bush Administration's committment to national security.
08/31/05 :: By S.M. Dixon Bush By The NumbersCategories :: Anti-War :: Bush Administration :: Iraq
The latest numbres show the Bush Regime is still in the toilet of public opinion.
08/29/05 :: By Bonnie Yarbrough Stealth GovernanceCategories :: Bush Administration :: Congress :: Social Security
With Katrina barreling up through the Mississippi Delta, there’s another “big blow” taking shape on radar screens focused toward Capital Hill. And yet another example of governance by stealth: when you can’t win, steal what you really want and proclaim it a victory.
08/18/05 :: By Bob Kendall Anti-Bush Campaign GrowingCategories :: Bush Administration
While U.S. service personnel are fighting and dying in Iraq, just as they did in Vietnam. Anti-war activists seek to confront White House resident George Bush to ask a simple question, “Why did the United States go to war in Iraq, and why are they still there?”
08/11/05 :: By S.M. Dixon A 9/11 Cover-Up Exposed?Categories :: Bush Administration
New evidence suggests that 9/11 was more preventable than previously known.
08/10/05 :: By Bob Kendall Why Does George Bush Insist upon Calling the Iraq War the War on Terror?Categories :: Bush Administration
A Miami Herald columnist suggests that George Bush is “delusional.” I would suggest that George Bush is simply recognizing that by calling the unnecessary Iraq War at this point the war on terror, he smoothly makes the transition. Bush demands the power of a president using the world war to give him the ultimate war powers in every aspect of our lives.
08/04/05 :: By Bob Kendall Have Politicians Exploited the Ten Commandments?Categories :: Bush Administration
When Bill Clinton was President, the Republican eyes focused on the commandment, “Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery.”
08/03/05 :: By S.M. Dixon Those Last Throes Are a DoozyCategories :: Anti-War :: Bush Administration
The Quagmire is STILL going badly... hence the term "quagmire."
08/02/05 :: By S.M. Dixon Another Bush Lie ExposedCategories :: Bush Administration
Another attempt to lie us into a war... but this one looks to be a miserable failure.
07/29/05 :: By Bonnie Yarbrough PowerGate's Hit ParadeCategories :: Bush Administration
To those following the sadly disturbing RoveGate, TreasonGate, PlameGate, CIAGate saga, these latest details are all part of a very simple scandal: this is about Power—getting it, keeping it, and destroying anyone who threatens to take it—at any price. Abuse of power is easy when you also openly embrace a culture of corruption and greed. But it’s just plain showy when you have a parade.
07/29/05 :: By S.M. Dixon Bolton Busted -- AgainCategories :: Bush Administration :: Iraq
Bolton lies by ommission and tries to play it off as forgetfulness. That excuse ranks right up there with "The check's in the mail."
07/26/05 :: By S.M. Dixon GOP Goes After Fitzgerald, CIACategories :: Bush Administration :: Congress
The GOP goes to war against a criminal investigation AND the CIA.
07/22/05 :: By Bob Kendall Judge John Roberts, A Threat to America as we Know It!Categories :: Bush Administration
When Sandra Day O’Connor announced her impending retirement there was the hope that her replacement might be another woman. But with George Bush and his one-sided political agenda, of course that was wishful thinking.
07/19/05 :: By Bob Kendall When George Bush Says, "Jump", Republican Robots Ask, "How High?"Categories :: Bush Administration
George Bush in his weekly radio address declared that he wants his Supreme Court nominations to move swiftly.
07/16/05 :: By William Hare Will Democrats Ever Learn? Impeachment is The Only Realistic Strategy!Categories :: Bush Administration
Last week I received an e-mail from a prominent Democrat who recommended a letter writing campaign to George W. Bush urging that he honor his pledge to seek advice and counsel on the important issue of selecting a U.S. Supreme Court justice to replace the retiring Sandra Day O’Connor. This week there has been an equally assiduous effort to implore Bush to fire Karl Rove.
07/16/05 :: By Bob Kendall Like Rats Leaving a Sinking Ship, Certain Media Moguls and Karl Rove Say, "I Didn't Name a C.I.A. Operative!"Categories :: Bush Administration
It would be almost amusing if it weren’t so terribly tragic that, when a law is broken, Bush’s confidante, Karl Rove, and the media spinmeisters instantly deny any involvement in breaking a law protecting C.I.A. operatives, when such a disclosure could lead to death. This entire incident proves how diabolical the response can be when anyone disagrees with the Administration’s policies, which some idiots claim operates on divine counsel.
07/15/05 :: By Bob Kendall None are so Blind as Those Republicans That Will Not See Karl Rove for What He Is!Categories :: Bush Administration
It is time for truly patriotic men and women to close ranks and circle around the failed President Bush and his motley crew with characters like Karl Rove, Vice President Cheney, and the likes of Condoleezza Rice.
07/13/05 :: By Bob Kendall Liar! Liar! The Republican Political House is on Fire!Categories :: Bush Administration
Having seen President Bush survive going to war in Iraq and knowing how many died because of these lies and forged documents that are responsible for all this hideous deaths and destruction we see every day in Iraq on television, did you really expect him and his Republican hypocrites to do the fair thing about “firing” Karl Rove, as Bush claimed he would fire anyone who leaked the identity of any CIA operative?
07/04/05 :: By Stu Finkel Don't Be Fooled on GonzalesCategories :: Bush Administration :: Supreme Court/Judiciary
Why the possibility of a Gonzales Supreme Court nomination should not cause us any relief, despite the Dobsonists' opposition to him.
07/04/05 :: By Bob Kendall Zogby Poll Flash! 42 Percent Favor Bush Impeachment if it can be Proven that the Iraq War was Based on Lies!Categories :: Bush Administration
Propagandists recognize that repeating a lie often enough can convince the general public that even the most astounding deception is true!
06/28/05 :: By P. M. Carpenter Karl Rove: The man Democrats should learn to loveCategories :: Bush Administration
Democrats should stop taking Karl Rove so seriously. Rove is like the obnoxious little brother who routinely teases his big sister only because her ensuing anger is so predictably rewarding. Democrats fall for it every time. Rove opens his immature...
06/27/05 :: By P. M. Carpenter Winning at any costCategories :: Bush Administration
“Before we commit troops, there has to be a clear strategy.” Contrary to recent developments, U.S. military forces should never be sent on “vague, aimless and endless deployments.” Those are not criticisms of the Iraq quagmire expressed by some wimpish,...
06/26/05 :: By Bob Kendall "You can fool some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." Abraham LincolnCategories :: Bush Administration
Dwight D. Eisenhower, with his vast knowledge of what the military-industrial complex was capable of, warned what they might do in the future. When you mention Halliburton or Bechtel doesn’t that ring a bell?
06/22/05 :: By Bob Kendall Have We Become a Brain Dead Society?Categories :: Bush Administration
Where is the outrage over the pension funds of U.S. industry coming up approximately $459 billion short? The insurance fund set up by the U.S. government, on which many of the corporate executives apparently figured would bail them out, is in the hole.
06/17/05 :: By S.M. Dixon Global Warming? What Global Warming?Categories :: Bush Administration :: Environment
The Bush Administration proves its allegiance to the Energy industry.
06/16/05 :: By P. M. Carpenter Does “weird” even get close?Categories :: Bush Administration
Is politics in this country getting exponentially weirder, or is it just me? I ask because I’m now seeing little difference between a top-level diplomatic nominee and a madcap talk-radio comedian. But maybe there really isn’t any difference, and politics...
06/16/05 :: By Bob Kendall When Will U.S. Citizens Tell the Republicans Enough is Enough?Categories :: Bush Administration
I don’t think that U.S. citizens will tell Republicans that enough is enough until enough Americans personally suffer because of this Republican majority that is in power.
06/13/05 :: By S.M. Dixon Bush & Honesty Not Well AcquaintedCategories :: Bush Administration
Once again, George Bush lies about the number of "terrorists" prosecuted by his administration.
06/13/05 :: By S.M. Dixon The Military Vs. BushCategories :: Bush Administration :: Iraq
A devastating admission from senior military officials in Iraq doesn't bode well for Bush.
06/10/05 :: By Bonnie Yarbrough Wrongfooting Saddam and Linking Terrorism to War: New DSM documentsCategories :: Bush Administration
[Updated post: with a second document.] Scoop has another document regarding the Downing Street minutes and the run-up to the war. As more leaks out, additional updates will follow.
06/09/05 :: By Bob Kendall How Repblicans Let Inflation Rock The NationCategories :: Bush Administration
With the George Bush Midas touch in reverse operation everywhere he has had any influence, the U.S.A. is undergoing raging inflation. When the salary of the average worker can’t keep pace with the price of buying a play to live, we are in big trouble.
06/07/05 :: By S.M. Dixon Bush by the NumbersCategories :: Bush Administration
The downward spiral is now a straight power dive into oblivion.
06/04/05 :: By S.M. Dixon Bolton Busted, DSM Right — AgainCategories :: Bush Administration :: Foreign Policy :: Iraq
More proof that the Downing Street Memo was right; the Bush Junta was fixing intelligence and intelligence agencies -- and used Bolton to do it on at least one occassion.
06/03/05 :: By Bob Kendall Is Bush a War Criminal?Categories :: Bush Administration
The question “Is Bush a war criminal?” is one that the Democrats could have used in their campaign to thwart Bush’s bid for a second term. It is astounding that the so-called moral Republicans apparently place far more emphasis on the commandment “Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery!” than on the commandment “Thou Shalt Not Kill!”
06/02/05 :: By P. M. Carpenter The perniciously oblivious Mr. BushCategories :: Bush Administration
There are 293,655,404 worried people in the United States -- minus one. "I don't worry about anything here in Washington, D.C.," Bush said Tuesday with his usual air of pixilation. At least he finally said something you can put in...
06/02/05 :: By S.M. Dixon Bush's Watergate: The DSMCategories :: Bush Administration
The case for impeaching George W. Bush.
05/31/05 :: By S.M. Dixon Bush Blasts AICategories :: Bush Administration
Bush blasts Amnesty International, Amnesty U.S.A. (and reality) blast back.
05/26/05 :: By S.M. Dixon Bush by the NumbersCategories :: Bush Administration :: Republicans
Another poll with bad news for the White House and the GOP. Will either group start listening to the American people any time soon?
05/25/05 :: By S.M. Dixon McClellan Backpeddles on Newsweek ClaimCategories :: Bush Administration
The White House can't keep it's lies straight.
05/19/05 :: By Bob Kendall Born Again Botch Artist Bush!Categories :: Bush Administration
It is a known psychological fact that very often accusers are the very ones who should be accused. Take the case of the White House resident George W. Bush.
05/13/05 :: By P. M. Carpenter Another up-or-down vote on black-and-white flakinessCategories :: Bush Administration
Nothing could better define how the Bush administration thinks, how it operates, and how it treats reality than John R. Bolton’s written opinion to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that “A policy official may state his own reading of the...
05/13/05 :: By Bob Kendall Letter to Time Over The Bush Media RoastCategories :: Bush Administration
I recently wrote a column for this site comparing the festive merriment of the recent Washington media roast involving the Bushes to the fiddling of Nero while Rome burned in the wake of the steadily mounting body count in Iraq with 400 deaths in the last seven days.
05/11/05 :: By Bonnie Yarbrough Old Ghosts and Mangled MemoriesCategories :: Bush Administration :: History :: Senators and Representatives
Just as Bush blundered into the Balkans to deliver his history-mangling rhetoric on minority rights as a benchmark for democracy, Frist was maneuvering eliminate them back home. Joe McCarthy would be proud.
05/09/05 :: By Bob Kendall Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the End of World War II with Putin and BushCategories :: Bush Administration
(An imaginary conversation between George Bush and Vladimir Putin.)
George Bush: That Yalta Agreement sure was a mistake. You Russians conned us, and F.D.R. fell for it – too bad we didn’t have a Republican in then. Things would have been different, I’ll tell you that. I’ve studied my history lesson.
05/07/05 :: By Bob Kendall Rip Van Winkle Democrats Asleep at the Switch!Categories :: Bush Administration
The symbol of the Democratic Party could be switched from the donkey to Rip Van Winkle. Democratic leaders have been sleeping through the first Bush term and now the tragedy of the second term reign of error.
05/05/05 :: By S.M. Dixon Salon Picks-Up on Rycroft MemoCategories :: Bush Administration :: Media
The "Rycroft Memo" story is a smoking gun covered with George Bush's fingerprints, but the so-called liberal media is taking its time deciding whether to cover the story. Let's see if others follow Salon's lead.
05/05/05 :: By William Hare As Brits Vote, Blair Faces "War Criminal" Suit; How Long Before The Cheney-Bush Junta is Held Accountable?Categories :: Bush Administration
While the British people vote in their parliamentary election today a nervous Prime Minister Tony Blair awaits his fate. In this election his sternest critics come from his Labour Party’s main support base. These are the individuals who find his actions in rushing his country to war in Iraq unconscionable.
05/03/05 :: By Bob Kendall Nero Fiddled While Rome Burned; Media Roast Brings Hysterical Laughter While Iraq BurnsCategories :: Bush Administration
A lot of Washington bigwigs need glasses! Hysterical laughter erupted at the Saturday night media roast when Laura Bush celebrated the media get together by cracking jokes about George going to bed at 9.
05/02/05 :: By Bob Kendall Star George Bush on a Reality Show to Let the Republican Voters Know What Their Vote has Done to Destroy the Respect and Economic Power of the U.S.A.Categories :: Bush Administration
The headline in the Miami Herald told it all – Stocks take Worst Hit in Two Years! The Bush brigade is so busy chasing around the world on taxpayer money or the bribe money offered by lobbyists that maybe they will not notice.
05/02/05 :: By P. M. Carpenter Sticking to Muleheaded Policies like DeLay to JunketsCategories :: Bush Administration
Last Friday E.J. Dionne wrote an excellent piece about George W. Bush being an “egghead.” No, it wasn’t a play on words; he wasn’t accusing Mr. Bush of having the inherent intelligence of a barnyard bird, but of possessing that...
05/01/05 :: By P. M. Carpenter A Hole in His HeadCategories :: Bush Administration
A former Justice Department subordinate of John Bolton says fondly of his boss: "When you go in to brief [him], as I found out early, you better be prepared…. If you have holes in your argument, he won't work with...
04/29/05 :: By Bob Kendall The Ignorance and Arrogance of the White House ResidentCategories :: Bush Administration
When reporters recently questioned the White House resident George Bush about his sinking popularity in political polls, he replied, “I don’t care what the polls show, I do what I think is right!” or words to that effect.
04/29/05 :: By Bob Kendall Are Terrorists Running Free in the U.S.?Categories :: Bush Administration
The Department of Homeland Security is limited as to how many individuals can be held pending deportation hearings or removal. Why? The single answer is they have very few places to hold them. According to Joel Mowbray’s April 25 article in the New York Post, there are only 18,400 beds for the entire U.S., which is down from 20,000 the previous year.
04/26/05 :: By Bob Kendall What is Bush Trying to do Pushing a Hateful Nominee Like Brash Bolton as UN Ambassador?Categories :: Bush Administration
Why does Bush who claims to be “born again” find himself “wrong gain” in about everything he says or does? The original evaluation for someone like a Bolton to be qualified for a position when he had acted like an attack dog against the UN makes one wonder where George Bush is coming from.
04/25/05 :: By William Hare Nixon and Bush: Two of a KindCategories :: Bush Administration
Last week Bush took time off from explaining his plan to “save” Social Security long enough to focus on the nomination of John Bolton, a unique choice of a perennial UN baiter and “go it alone” zealot to serve as ambassador to the international body. Needless to say, such a choice is meant to send a message to the world about Bushie attitudes toward the UN specifically and the world community in general.
04/21/05 :: By Drew Johnston Why The Hell Are Republicans Still Clinging To Social Security Privatization?Categories :: Bush Administration :: Congress :: Republicans :: Social Security
Why would any politician support an obvious loser issue like SS privatization? As it turns out, it may hurt more if the Repubs give it up.
04/21/05 :: By Bob Kendall The Biting Irony of Inviting Bush to the New Lincoln Springfield MemorialCategories :: Bush Administration
Abraham Lincoln is considered by many to be America’s greatest president. George Bush is considered by many to be its worst. Could it be that they invited Bush because they refuse to consider the reality of what the failed president has done to the U.S.A. in 4 years and 3 ½ months?
04/20/05 :: By Bob Kendall Have U.S. Citizens Who Recite the Pledge of Allegiance Words "One Nation Under God With Liberty and Justice for All" Comprehended What Infamy the Bush Administration is Guilty of for Going to War Against Iraq on Propaganda and Lies?Categories :: Bush Administration
Pseudo patriots who backed George Bush for president when they knew beyond the shadow of a doubt that he and his terrifying crew had launched a shock and awe lightning strike against Iraq based on the big lie that the U.S. was threatened by non-existent weapons of mass destruction should have to face the consequences of their actions, just as those responsible for those needless deaths should also be held accountable.
04/15/05 :: By Bob Kendall Is Bush's Appointment of Carlos Gutierrez, the Kellogg CEO Who Sent Most of the Cereal Company's Jobs to Mexico, a Traitorous Act?Categories :: Bush Administration
Reading David Broder’s column in the Miami Herald April 12, 2005, I was stunned at his lack of accuracy in his article regarding Bush’s latest scheme, which when closely scrutinized makes the “Tricky Dick” shenanigans of Richard Nixon seem like child’s play.
04/08/05 :: By Bob Kendall Is Bush's Social Security Crisis Really a Diversionary Tactic?Categories :: Bush Administration
Instead of trying to control the staggering budget deficit the Bush Administration has created the worst one in U.S. history. George Bush whizzes around the nation in Air Force One luxury, preparing for another “fear tactic syndrome” speech to his carefully screened audiences at his every stop. The “fear syndrome” approach worked effectively to frighten many in the U.S. into thinking the nation had to go to war in Iraq to survive. The robot Congress fell for this false pitch. So did a lot of the population of the U.S., so why not try it again?
04/08/05 :: By S.M. Dixon Bush by the NumbersCategories :: Bush Administration :: Congress
The latest AP-Ipsos poll shows that the Bush Administration and the GOP-controlled Congress are in a downward spiral.
04/01/05 :: By Bob Kendall What About the Charge that Democrats are Bush Bashers?Categories :: Bush Administration
What about the charge that Democrats are Bush bashers? This is no more than a Republican robot response to any criticism of Bush. Remember what a field day Republicans had bashing Bill Clinton? Republicans seemed to obtain a frenzied delight in lashing out about Clinton’s affairs.
03/28/05 :: By Bob Kendall Does President Bush Rank High as a Flim Flam Man?Categories :: Bush Administration
The question millions of individuals have been forced to confront no matter what side of the party line their embedded in stone political loyalties lie is “Does President Bush rank high as a flim flam man?” Remember when Richard Nixon displayed what a hollow man he was? The Republican right still defends him in their misguided loyalty, which really amounts to a vulgar ego saving device. Bush’s supreme political consultant Karl Rove still considers Richard Nixon his political hero.
03/25/05 :: By Bob Kendall It Takes a Lot of Guts for Bush to Chase Around the U.S.A. Claiming he can Solve the So-Called Social Security CrisisCategories :: Bush Administration
Bush was quoted on the Notebook page of Time on March 14, 2005 at a White House ceremony honoring the Boston Red Sox for winning the 2004 world championship as saying “It took a lot of guts” for the team to rebound from a three games to none deficit against the New York Yankees in the American League Championship Series to triumph in seven games and then go on to win the World Series with four straight victories over the St. Louis Cardinals.
03/24/05 :: By William Hare Is George Bush America's Number One Hypocrite?Categories :: Bush Administration
Oh George, this time you really reached deep within yourself and made the case for morality and sustaining life. It is better to err on the side of life, you strongly insisted in the case of Terri Schiavo.
03/24/05 :: By Bob Kendall Is This Intelligent Concern for their Daughter's Condition?Categories :: Bush Administration
This painful question must finally be asked after fifteen years of observing their daughter Terri slowly dying in a vegetable state: Are Terry Schiavo’s parents being arrogant, defying 20 doctors who have declared without reservation that Terri is tragically brain dead?
03/21/05 :: By Bob Kendall The Cheney-Bush Junta: Global and Domestic DestroyersCategories :: Bush Administration
The key to destroying any nation begins with the destruction of its currency. Strong nations have strong currencies. The descent of the U.S. dollar happened in the Republican-controlled Administration led by divisive White House resident George Bush. I say “resident” as millions do not believe Bush was legitimately elected either in 2000 or 2004. This Administration has been a continuing nightmare as it lurches from one disaster to another, fantasizing that God is behind their steady pattern of lies and deception.
03/14/05 :: By S.M. Dixon Pay No Attention to the President Behind the CurtainCategories :: Bush Administration :: Media :: Propaganda/Spin
The Bush Administration's deceptive Public Relations offensive, funded by tax-payer dollars, is more widespread than once thought.
03/10/05 :: By S.M. Dixon Move On, GeorgeCategories :: Bush Administration
George W. Bush and his administration have become mindlessly repetitive.
03/09/05 :: By S.M. Dixon There IS a Social Security CrisisCategories :: Bush Administration :: Framing - Individuals :: Social Security
Democrats need to reframe the Social Security debate: There IS a crisis... but it's being caused by the Bush Administration's irresponsibility.
03/07/05 :: By S.M. Dixon Bolton at the U.N. is Bad NewsCategories :: Breaking News :: Bush Administration
The Bush Administration has just chosen a notoriously undiplomatic man to be the new U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations: John Bolton.
02/24/05 :: By Stu Finkel Bush and Pooty-PootCategories :: Bush Administration :: Foreign Policy
Bush is paying lip service to democracy in Russia, but it's doubtful he'll press his old friend Pooty Poot too hard about it at their meeting.
02/21/05 :: By Bob Kendall Bush -- The Great Divider, at Home and Abroad!Categories :: Bush Administration
After complaining in such drastic terms about Europe’s refusal to go along with the unproven “fear theory” of the “weapons of mass destruction” high voltage propaganda campaign, George Bush and the robot-like Administration he led to perhaps the largest lie for going to war against a nation in American history, he now speaks of mending fences abroad!
02/18/05 :: By Bob Kendall Why The Silence About Condoleezza's Accountability for the Iraq Disaster?Categories :: Bush Administration
When President George Bush was recently asked by the European press about “accountability” for what happened and is continuing to occur in Iraq, he had a simple answer, “Well they voted for me for a second term, didn’t they?”
02/17/05 :: By Tom Ball “Enemy Combatant” Negroponte will be the Nation’s First Intelligence Chief.Categories :: Bush Administration :: Iran Contra
Most people remember Negroponte as the facilitator of Reagan-approved atrocities in Honduras and proud Iran-Contra criminal. I know, it's hard to believe, but one of Bush's appointments might not actually meet the high standards we would like to believe the US Government sets for its officials. In fact, he and his buddies, Caspar Weinberger, Elliot Abrams, Robert McFarlane, John Poindexter, Otto Reich, George Bush Sr., Ronald Reagan, and Oliver North committed acts that, outside conservative circles, spur outrage and disbelief.
02/17/05 :: By Stu Finkel Your PropaGannon UpdateCategories :: Bush Administration :: Media Snake Oil :: Propaganda/Spin
the real importance of the Gannon story had nothing to do with sex or prostitution but about our growing knowledge of the elaborate Soviet-style White House propaganda network, and, potentially, about how a paid propaganda agent may have been involved in the outing of an undercover CIA agent.
02/13/05 :: By Bonnie Yarbrough Lost in the FunhouseCategories :: Bush Administration
Here’s a Valentine for American progressives, Democrats, Independents, and other concerned citizens who think the challenge to protect democracy in America may very well depend on deconstructing the Bush budget. Instead of flowers, candy, or lingerie, why not spend a little time and energy on a collective call to action?
02/12/05 :: By Tom Ball New 9/11 Commission Findings and the Top 19 Ways Bush and the Republicans Benefited from the AttackCategories :: Bush Administration :: Republicans
From here, I will take the baton and run with the question of 'who benefits?' The question has been posed, pondered and answered many times before, but never quite so completely as this. And I present this so that everyone can see just how many ways Bush and his cabal have benefited from the ultimate devastation in New York, Pennsylvania and DC...
02/09/05 :: By William Hare Bush Speaks With a Forked Tongue -- Preaches Democracy and Rules by DespotismCategories :: Bush Administration
George Bush made repeated references to “freedom” in his State of the Union Message and even invoked that name that has been missing for so long in the Republican lexicon, that of the Republican Party’s founder, Abraham Lincoln. While Bush delivered repeated lip service to democracy, practicing it is a totally different matter, as the record clearly reflects.
02/08/05 :: By Tom Ball Top 20 Indications that Bush Invades Iran -- Soon!Categories :: Bush Administration :: Foreign Policy
Number 1) Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that U.S. Attack on Iran are 'simply not on the agenda at this point'.
And by that, she of course meant that Iran IS on the agenda and it always has been -- right along with Iraq.
Check out the 0ther 19 events that point to an imminent Bush invasion of Iran.
02/04/05 :: By Bob Kendall Another Day That Will Definitely Live in Infamy!Categories :: Bush Administration
Democratic senators voting to confirm Condoleezza Rice as Secretary of State marked a day I believe will live in infamy. When F.D.R. spoke of the Japanese attack against Pearl Harbor as “a day that will live in infamy” that assault came from without. This attack came from within.
01/31/05 :: By Bonnie Yarbrough Heroes of Social Insecurity: A 'Leninist' StrategyCategories :: Bush Administration :: Discrimination :: Hypocrisy :: Social Security
Americans don't need a secret de-coder ring to understand the PR push to sell the Plan to destroy Social Security, but some may enjoy a trip down memory lane before the State of the Union re-defines privatization.
01/28/05 :: By Bob Kendall Republicans Celebrate Their FailuresCategories :: Bush Administration
The world watched the Republican revelry, the $40 million party celebrating putting Bush back in power. Bush and fellow Republicans boasted that the $40 million came from independent sources, not taxpayers.
01/27/05 :: By Delton Murphy How To Teach IntoleranceCategories :: Bush Administration :: Education :: Hypocrisy
While the war, the economy, torture, terrorism and unemployment are all important issues, nothing means more to the Republicans than sexual orientation.
01/27/05 :: By Delton Murphy The Confirmation of CondiCategories :: Bush Administration :: Rice, Condoleezza :: Senators and Representatives
While the vast majority of Democrats behaved normally, like Stepford Wives in accordance with their corporate programming, by voting in step with the Republicans, a *whopping* thirteen Senators actually voted against her nomination.
01/25/05 :: By Delton Murphy Action Alert: Hold Condoleezza Rice Accountable!Categories :: Activism :: Bush Administration :: Rice, Condoleezza
Even though it's pretty much a done deal that Condoleezza Rice will be confirmed as the next Secretary of State, she (as well as the rest of the Bushites) must be held accountable. Barbara Boxer may be one of the...
01/24/05 :: By Delton Murphy War is PatrioticCategories :: Bush Administration :: Free Speech :: History :: Iraq :: Patriotism
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the greatest nation of all?
01/22/05 :: By Bob Kendall Has Condoleezza Rice Sounded The Battle Cry for a Holy War?Categories :: Bush Administration
Even before Dr. Condoleezza Rice had been cleared by a 16-2 vote by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in the ongoing confirmation process for Secretary of Statre, it would be a good idea to demand that she reveal how she plans to wage war against Fundamentalist Islam.
01/21/05 :: By Bonnie Yarbrough It Takes a Virtual VillageCategories :: Bush Administration :: Framing 101 :: Free Speech :: Progressive Strategy :: Social Security
Tracking, documenting, and correcting the continuing assault by The Second Administration requires a healthy village of progressive citizens to speak truth to power. The mounting campaign against raiding Social Security is one indication of the strength of this Village.
01/20/05 :: By William Hare Rice is Being Questioned in the Wrong Place; The Interrogiation is More Appropriate for The HagueCategories :: Bush Administration
When one considers the track record of deceit on the part of Condoleezza Rice in her first four years of the Bush Administration it becomes obvious that questioning her in Washington by Senate members is the inappropriate action. Under the circumstances, based on international law to which we as a nation have traditionally subscribed, the appropriate venue for interrogation would be the World Court at The Hague. If international law were being followed she would be joined in the docket by all involved in that policymaking, beginning with chief architect Dick Cheney and continuing through his neoconservative allies such as Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle, as well as symbolic mouthpiece George W. Bush.
01/20/05 :: By Bonnie Yarbrough The Second ComingCategories :: Bush Administration
For many Americans, the most memorable words George W. Bush spoke this week did not come in his second Inaugural speech.
01/20/05 :: By Bob Kendall The Only Thing We Have to Fear is Bush HimselfCategories :: Bush Administration
Franklin Delano Roosevelt made famous the declaration, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself!”
01/19/05 :: By Bob Kendall Brainwashed, Brain Dead or Both?Categories :: Bush Administration
This question must be asked when one considers Albert Einstein’s definition of insanity: “Insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result.” Could that definition define what voters did who voted for a second term for the Bush Administration?
01/18/05 :: By William Hare Bush's Bogus Iraq MandateCategories :: Bush Administration
How the spinmeisters of the incumbent Republican regime stay up all night deciding what to say and do next in the face of a steady onslaught of questions and refutations of their indefensible policy postures. A classic example is Bush’s pronouncement delivered in an interview with the Washington Post that he need not take any action concerning any of his Administration’s officials pertaining to his Iraq policy.
01/14/05 :: By Bonnie Yarbrough Update: Trickle-Down NewsCategories :: Bush Administration :: Framing 101 :: Hypocrisy :: Outrages
Some details are beginning to emerge about the President's plan to destroy Roosevelt's successful Social Security safety net. Early signs of the marketing, the campaign process, and the rhetoric are troubling.
01/13/05 :: By Drew Johnston The Amazing Mr. PresidentCategories :: Bush Administration :: Propaganda/Spin
It's bad enough that Bush's "town hall meetings" are obviously scripted. You'd think * would at least try to get his lines right.
01/13/05 :: By Bonnie Yarbrough “Trickle-down News"Categories :: Bush Administration :: Framing 101 :: Hypocrisy
Mr. Bush is failing to convince the GOP to brutalize Social Security despite fear tactics. Perhaps GOPPOTUS has less political capital than he at first claimed.
01/12/05 :: By Tom Ball If Only Bush Were as Accountable as CBSCategories :: Bush Administration
In fact, of the 92 or so high level resignations and Dismissals that plagued the Bush Administration over the first 4 years, only three of them had any air of 'punishment' for incompetence. And even they were not publicly admonished for failure -- lest the administration itself appear to be the failure that we all know it to be.
01/10/05 :: By Bob Kendall This Three Question Quiz Can Determine How Dangerous You Are To CivilizationCategories :: Bush Administration
Civilization’s bloody saga proves “religious wars” have killed countless millions, all in the name of “God”, “Jehovah” or “Allah” and often referred to “Holy Wars” by the perpetrators. With over 1,500 different religious concepts it is inevitable there will be clashes of viewpoints. If we are ever to stop this killing, it will be necessary to know how religious killers think, just as we make scientific studies of how “serial killers” think.
01/07/05 :: By Tom Ball Are There Any Limits to the Propaganda of Goebbels W. Bush?Categories :: Bush Administration :: Propaganda/Spin
Remember the question that I asked at the end of my last post on Bush Propaganda? Well, the answer is... we haven't even begun to see the extent to which this administration will go when it comes to asserting their agenda. And why should we? They committed atrocities beyond compare in their first term and the American electorate gave them a free pass. I don't blame the Republicans one bit for relentlessly pursuing their agenda.
01/06/05 :: By Bob Kendall The Bush Administration Fooled The American People Once Over The Iraq WarCategories :: Bush Administration
The old saying, “Fool me once, shame on you! Fool me twice, shame on me!” is a timeless adage we should heed.
01/03/05 :: By Bob Kendall The Greatest Economic Comedian Ever -- Alan GreenspanCategories :: Bush Administration
Alan Greenspan was just the economic mouthpiece the Bush Administration needed. The nation’s only recent major available prosperity opportunity for the average individual has been the real estate market. With interest rates hitting an all time 45 year low, those individuals burned in the stock and bond market as corruption ravaged their assets wanted something more tangible.
01/03/05 :: By Bob Kendall Spendthrift Republicans Drowning The U.S. in Debt!Categories :: Bush Administration
The Republican propaganda machine has used the Republican myth of recent years that liberals are the big spenders.
12/29/04 :: By Bob Kendall How Phony Can The U.S. Drug Purchase Policy Get?Categories :: Bush Administration
After one of the biggest “scam jobs” in U.S. history when the drug industry succeeded in getting the Bush Administration, otherwise known as the Big Business Bonanza Administration, to promise the drug corporations billions to provide their highest price drugs through Medicare.
12/29/04 :: By Bob Kendall Ousted Fannie Mae Executives Rewarded With PerksCategories :: Bush Administration
The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, Fannie Mae’s Chief Executive Regulator, finally pressured the board to act, but only after the Securities and Exchange Commission revealed Fannie Mae must make accounting “corrections” as they so tactfully stated it. These so-called accounting “corrections” might erase $9 billion of claimed Fannie Mae profit going back to 2001.
12/28/04 :: By Tom Ball Rumsfeld's Freudian Slip: "shot down the plane over Pennsylvania."Categories :: Bush Administration :: Lies :: Rumsfeld, Donald
I've learned long ago that any 'conspiracy theories' relating to this administration are never beyond reason. Anyone familiar with the American Enterprise Institute and the project for a New American Century knows full well that what would be considered 'conspiracy theory' by the average stable-minded American is platform policy for established insiders of the Neoconservative movement.
12/25/04 :: By Delton Murphy Puppeteer of the YearCategories :: Bush Administration :: Humor :: Republicans
Although Time Magazine named Bush 2004 Person of the Year, the true man behind the curtain is the one who should receive the accolades, puppet master himself, Karl Rove.
12/25/04 :: By Delton Murphy Support Our Troops! (until they come home)Categories :: Bush Administration :: Government :: Iraq :: Military
The battle for a number of US Troops continues when they return home. While some American soldiers are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, other are suffering from the effects of depleted uranium or mental illness triggered by their combat experience. Others find they have no place to live.
12/25/04 :: By Bob Kendall The Bush Legacy: Death, Destruction and DebtCategories :: Bush Administration
Time Magazine (December 27, 2004/ January 3, 2005), stated, “Compare the Bushes with the Kennedys, and it’s the Republican clan that casts the longer shadow. A Kennedy was President for a thousand days or so, but if George W. Bush completes his second term, someone named Bush will have been President for 4,383 days.”
12/24/04 :: By William Hare Tragic Dereliction Toward America's TroopsCategories :: Bush Administration
Donald Rumsfeld’s recent response that America’s men and women in uniform would have to “make do” with what they have is typical of the priorities of an Administration that has placed greater emphasis on providing no bid contracts to friends like Halliburton and confidentiality of discussions Dick Cheney held with leading oil executives than fulfilling the needs of the men and women sent to Iraq through their own blatant misrepresentations of fact.
12/22/04 :: By Delton Murphy Turn Your Back on BushCategories :: Activism :: Bush Administration
Energized progressives who are still struggling to express their opposition to the Bush Agenda may want to check out a new site organizing a huge non-violent protest at Bush's inauguration.
12/22/04 :: By Delton Murphy More Use of AbuseCategories :: Bush Administration :: Government :: Iraq
As the war spins out of control the evidence of detainee and prisoner torture intensifies.
12/22/04 :: By Delton Murphy Shhhh...Categories :: Bush Administration :: Government :: Terrorism
If you're operating a Secret Police force, it's only logical that there are Secret Jails, right?
12/22/04 :: By Delton Murphy Torture A La CarteCategories :: Bush Administration :: Government :: Iraq :: Military
It seems the more we talk about detainee torture in Abu Ghraib or Guantanemo Bay, the less it gets covered; revelations from the FBI notwithstanding.
12/21/04 :: By Delton Murphy I See Terrorists...They're EverywhereCategories :: Bush Administration :: Iraq :: Terrorism
As President Bush continues to fight terror with terror to kill terrorists, it has become clear that being a dictator is a lot more preferable than being president.
12/21/04 :: By Delton Murphy Ethnic Cleansing: Bush StyleCategories :: Bush Administration :: Civil Rights :: Discrimination :: Government
Arabs, Africans, Latinos, Muslims --the United States government just can't seem to agree on the best way to get rid of these pesky ethnicities: war, deportation, drug testing or concentration camps. Maybe a combination of all these tactics will finally do the trick.
12/20/04 :: By Delton Murphy Family Form LettersCategories :: Bush Administration :: Rumsfeld, Donald
Being the Secretary of Defense is a tough job and running a war is definitely hard work. Donald Rumsfeld cannot be bothered with pesky little things like signing his name to condolence letters sent to patriotic families of fallen soldiers.
12/20/04 :: By Delton Murphy Sunday, Bloody SundayCategories :: Bush Administration :: Iraq
One of the bloodiest Sundays since the US waged war against Iraq occurred this past weekend, intensifying the fears of an Iraqi Civil War.
12/20/04 :: By Bonnie Yarbrough Notable Quotes.2: Weekend WindsCategories :: Blowhards :: Bush Administration :: Economy
The primary topics in the websphere this weekend, however, center on three tangled but related attack threads: the Economic “Summit,” the marketing of the Social Security “crisis,” and the continuing attacks on Rumsfeld’s Iraqgate.
12/17/04 :: By Bonnie Yarbrough “Frivolous” Justice: Bush on TrialCategories :: Bush Administration :: Framing 101 :: Hypocrisy :: Propaganda/Spin
Finding credible information at the Economic "Summit" is proving to be more illusive than Bernie Kerik's "nanny." I doubt anyone familiar with Bush's record on the economy took the Economic “Summit” this week seriously, but at least the outrageous comments and mock discussions have gotten some fair criticism this time around.
12/16/04 :: By Bob Kendall Slimy Democracy U.S.A. StyleCategories :: Bush Administration
Bush proclaims every other day his stated reason for invading Iraq was to bring “freedom” and “democracy.” If what he has in mind is the way U.S. democracy is run, it’s not one nation for the people and by the people. That concept was dismissed long, long ago.
12/15/04 :: By Tom Ball Lieberman Rejects BushCategories :: Bush Administration
This is a hopeful sign. Perhaps Lieberman has seen the light. Perhaps he understands the consequences of accepting a position as Homeland Security chief under the auspices of the Rove machine.
12/11/04 :: By Stu Finkel Who's Next?Categories :: Bush Administration
So Bernard Kerik has withdrawn his name from consideration for the Homeland Security post. The cover story has to do with an illegal alien nanny, though there is speculation it could be something more than this.
12/08/04 :: By Stu Finkel Stephen ColbertCategories :: Bush Administration :: Humor :: Satire
From Tuesday's Daily Show:
JS: But Stephen, what you seem to be suggesting is that the way to keep your job in this administration is to be a failure.
SC: No, Jon. A colossal failure.
12/03/04 :: By Stu Finkel Escaping Blame for Abu GharibCategories :: Bush Administration :: Hypocrisy :: Iraq
As Derrick Z. Jackson reminds us in his searing Op-Ed in today's Boston Globe, nothing aids promotion in the Bush administration like incompetence and breaking laws both domestic and international.
12/03/04 :: By Bonnie Yarbrough Calls for Impeachment ContinueCategories :: Bush Administration
The White House is in full party mode, both figuratively and literally. Decorations and Christmas carols are now passing for “hard news” on CNN. But the background music, for anyone who cares to listen to it, carries a plaintiff and lilting dissonance.
11/30/04 :: By Bob Kendall Did The Bush Administration Create a Nuclear Crisis in Iran and North Korea?Categories :: Bush Administration
Of course they did. By attacking Iraq on a tissue of lies, with dreams and designs on Iraq’s oil and assets, and with Israel’s foreign fantasy that they will be better protected without Saddam Hussein, who provided cash to exploit the Palestinians so desperate for their own country that they became suicide bombers.
11/28/04 :: By Stu Finkel Blogging Harper's IndexCategories :: Bush Administration
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