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In our euphoria, we shouldn’t forget the injustice that has been done to America.
On the day that President-elect Barack Obama is visiting the White House, a new national poll suggests that the current occupant at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is the most unpopular president since approval ratings were first sought more than six decades ago.
Seventy-six percent [...]
John McCain has excluded President Bush from his campaign to a far more extensive degree than Al Gore with Bill Clinton. And yet, the ironic thing is Clinton would have helped Gore win - and Florida wouldn’t have been stolen.
Is Cheney’s last-minute endorsement of McCain a way for Bush to give the finger to McCain, who he never has liked? If so, brilliant.
But Oliver Stone’s “W” may be on track to make more money in its first weekend than the entire run of “An American Carol”. I’m probably gonna go see it today.
Granted, Bush’s vacations are more out of a desire to shirk his duties while McCain is probably just tired and can’t keep up with the youngsters on the trail, but still.
While both candidates are taking time off the trail for debate prep, Obama is in Asheville, North Carolina, a crucial swing state where he’ll earn [...]
This is BagNewsNotes‘ territory, but this was too delicious not to note from the MSNBC.com home page:
It’s something of a joke in liberal circles that conservatives think tax cuts are a cure all like Robitussin. But it’s not a parody if its true.
COURIC: And, Bob, I understand that John McCain actually floated an alternative plan. What can you tell us about that?
ORR: We’re told at the White House Senator McCain offered [...]
This is not a face that promotes trust, security, or a sense that we can get through this crisis. When you look up Epic Fail in the dictionary, this is what you get.
118 days. Pray we make it.
Bush will be addressing the nation about the financial crisis he and his party fiddled through. You see, if the president hadn’t spent the last eight years lying to us about everything under the sun, he would have the kind of political capital more succesful presidents do. The problem with the hype from the White [...]
Bush on Monday
President Bush sought to assure anxious world leaders on Monday that the United States is taking ‘bold, aggressive, decisive action’ to rescue the crisis-ridden economy with a $700 billion bailout package. ‘The whole world is watching to see if we can act quickly,’ Bush said, prodding lawmakers in Washington to approve his plan.
Bush, [...]
One of the roles for the presidency is as National Leader.
Americans ask their presidents to do more than govern; they expect them to lead. No aspect of the chief executive’s job is more important than articulating the nation’s principles, taking on new challenges, providing comfort and inspiration in times of crisis, and, in Abraham Lincoln’s [...]
At first glance that’s how this sounds to me.
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is working on a plan that would set up a government facility to take on bad debts from financial institutions, preventing a worsening of the global credit crisis, Wall Street sources have told CNBC.
The facility would be similar to the Resolution Trust Corporation, [...]
As you guys know, I don’t put a whole lot of stock in Karl Rove. I think his skill is middling at best as a political “mastermind” and I think my fellow liberals swoon too often and strongly to the latest “Rovian plot” that turns out not to be any kind of plot. That said, [...]
DRILL, Baby, DRILL.
Senior Justice Department officials blocked the U.S. attorney in Colorado from supporting a whistleblower’s suit last year, jeopardizing the government’s prospects for recovering as much as $40 million from a major oil company for its alleged underpayment of royalties.
U.S. Attorney Troy Eid said Washington overruled his request to enter the case against the [...]
Perhaps they need John McCain to explain it to them, but this conservative whine in the wake of Sarah Palin’s flub during her interview with John Gibson that gave us what is now being called the “moose in the headlights” moment, is just ridiculous. Anyone paying attention to politics knows what the Bush doctrine of [...]
Perhaps if she had done a Google before the interview she would have known the answer.
Granted, the Bush doctrine is bunk, but as someone running for the vice presidency I would guess someone should know what the heck it is. “Hockey mom” with “executive experience” or no.
Joe Biden is the vice presidential candidate, who, [...]
This must have been what the GOP conventioneers meant when they said drill, baby, drill.
As Congress prepares to debate expansion of drilling in taxpayer-owned coastal waters, the Interior Department agency that collects oil and gas royalties has been caught up in a wide-ranging ethics scandal — including allegations of financial self-dealing, accepting gifts from energy [...]
Running the federal government is, indeed, “hard work”. Republicans, for the past decade or so, have worked hard at getting elected then once in office they think the job is done - mission accomplished. That’s why they argue so strenously against the government we are all a part of. That is why their goal is [...]
I repeat again. We are running out of federal highway funds. In America. Here. In America. What the hell have these people done to our country?
The federal highway trust fund will run out of money this month, requiring delays in payments to states for transportation construction projects, Transportation Secretary Mary Peters said Friday.
The trust fund [...]
ROFL.
When George Bush attained the presidency in 2000, there was a budget surplus left from President Clinton. There is now a record $482 billion deficit.
As the next president comes in, one of the things we will uncover is just how widespread the systematic perversion of the government into an arm of the Republican party is. In this instance it’s the Bushies pushing Iraq’s Maliki to walk back what was clearly an endorsement of Sen. Obama’s strategy in Iraq.
The statement [...]
Look, it’s like the Carter presidency… only we’ve got Internet instead of CB radio!
Stocks tumbled Friday, with the Dow Jones industrials dipping below the 11,000 mark for the first time in two years, as investors focused on troubles at mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and watched oil prices climb further into record territory.
It’s stickin’. Because it is true.
A recent USA Today/Gallup poll finds about two in three Americans concerned that John McCain would pursue policies as president that are too similar to what George W. Bush has pursued. Nearly half — 49% — say they are “very concerned” about this.
McCain isn’t his own man. He’s an older [...]
You remember how every 5 minutes in 2004 we got a TERROR ALERT from Homeland Security, and then after Bush was re-elected the TERROR ALERTs seemed to go away? And then Tom Ridge admitted that at least a few of them were politically motivated?
Welcome back.
“The White House said Monday it agreed with an assessment by [...]
Again.
“A federal appeals court has slammed the reliability of U.S. government intelligence documents, saying just because officials keep repeating their assertions does not make them true.
A guard looks over the U.S. military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in this file photo.
A three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington likened the Bush [...]
The ongoing story of how the Bush administration sacrificed American and global security to Al Qaeda in order to invade Iraq marches on.
Current and former military and intelligence officials said that the war in Iraq consistently diverted resources and high-level attention from the tribal areas. When American military and intelligence officials requested additional Predator drones [...]
President Bush (is he still there?) accused Democrats in congress today of being the cause of our current high gas prices. Of course, congress has been Democratic for just over a year, and much of the problems with the cost of oil comes from that unnecessary war Mr. Bush started in the middle east. It [...]
Everyone with a brain knows this already, but the much delayed Phase II Senate report proves once again that the President and his lackeys lied us into the Iraq War.
–Statements and implications by the President and Secretary of State suggesting that Iraq and al-Qa’ida had a partnership, or that Iraq had provided al-Qa’ida with weapons [...]
Australia gets smart.
Soldiers lowered the Australian flag that had flown over Camp Terendak in the southern Iraqi city of Talil. The combat troops were expected to return to Australia over the next few weeks, with the first of them arriving home Sunday.
Don’t forget Poland.
Trent Duffy, former Deputy Press Secretary pitches a hissy fit about Scott McClellan in the Post:
All that aside, the revelations that you are “intrigued by Senator Obama’s message” and that you don’t know if you are a Republican anymore make me wonder if you ever had any convictions. If you were just drinking the Kool-Aid [...]
Once again, only a fool would say that this isn’t Good News For John McCainTM
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday sharply lowered its projection for economic growth this year, citing blows from the housing and credit debacles along with zooming energy prices. It also expects higher unemployment and inflation.
Love. Love will keep them together.
President George W. Bush will join John McCain for a fundraiser in the Arizona senator’s hometown later this month, McCain’s campaign confirms.
The reception, to be held in Phoenix on May 27th, will mark the first time the two have appeared together at a campaign event this year and the [...]
This article is popping up again after Bush’s attack in foreign territory.
George Bush’s grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany.
The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm [...]
Some straight talk on the failed President’s attack.
Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.), piling on to Democratic complaints about President Bush’s speech in Israel today:
“This is bullshit, this is malarkey. This is outrageous, for the president of the United States to go to a foreign country, to sit in the Knesset … and make this kind of [...]
What. An. Idiotic. Tool.
I’ll tell my kids someday, “There was a period of about eight years when everyone at the most important jobs in our government were crazy, stupid, evil or a combination of the three. No, really. This recent bout of competence we’re going through was a rarity at the turn of the century. [...]
Every day the dumb flows like water.
Nobel Peace Prize winner and international symbol of freedom Nelson Mandela is flagged on U.S. terrorist watch lists and needs special permission to visit the USA. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice calls the situation “embarrassing,” and some members of Congress vow to fix it.
The requirement applies to former South [...]
Remember we won the war (we even got a strategy for VICTORY two years later). No wonder John McCain wants 100 years more of it.
Over 3,500 servicemembers have died since Bush declared “Mission Accomplished”.
Good night, and good luck.
This explains his total failure. Sort of. As in, not at all.
Clearly this is good for out of touch John McCain.
Americans’ confidence in the economy continued to plunge this month as their homes lost value at the fastest rate in two decades, according to reports released on Tuesday.
The data suggested that the housing slump was far from a recovery and the job market might continue to [...]
Heck of a job.
In a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday, 28% of Americans approve of the job Bush is doing; 69% disapprove. The approval rating matches the low point of his presidency, and the disapproval sets a new high for any president since Franklin Roosevelt.
I’m not saying that we would sit on our hands if Iran attacked Israel, but its amazing how easily Sen. Clinton accepts the premise that Iran is going to launch a nuclear attack on Israel. A few months ago she wouldn’t answer hypotheticals, now she’s launched nuclear war on Iran over a hypothetical.
Clinton further displayed [...]
So why would the Bushies know the difference between Nepal and Tibet?
It’s Friday in America.
Bush administration officials from Vice President Dick Cheney on down signed off on using harsh interrogation techniques against suspected terrorists after asking the Justice Department to endorse their legality, The Associated Press has learned.
The officials also took care to insulate President Bush from a series of meetings where CIA interrogation methods, including [...]
Our worst president ever continues his string of horrific approval ratings by hitting 28% in the AP-Ipsos poll, the lowest they’ve ever measured for him. Why does this show how out of touch Republicans are? 7% of Democrats approve. 17% of independents approve. And 60% of the Republicans approve of him.
I think its funny the [...]
German PM Angela Merkel will not be attending the opening ceremony of the Olympics due to China’s ongoing brutality in Tibet.
British PM Gordon Brown will not be attending the opening ceremony of the Olympics due to China’s ongoing brutality in Tibet.
There was a time in my lifetime where this sort of thing started at the [...]
The same old garbage wrapped up in a shinier package.
The likely Republican presidential nominee was asked Wednesday at a town-hall style meeting if he would reject “the Bush doctrine of pre-emptive war,” a reference to Bush’s decision to invade Iraq without it having attacked the United States.
“I don’t think you could make a blanket statement [...]
John Yoo’s memo giving the administration an escape clause for illegal acts in the war in terror has been released. If you look at it, his other work, and the interviews he has given its stunningly clear that he has no idea what the hell he’s doing (nor does Cheney’s legal guy, David Addington). It’s [...]
Bush, like Cheney, was booed throwing out the opening pitch for the Nationals. Disliking the president is the new national pastime.
Add another to the list.
An aide to President Bush has resigned because of his alleged misuse of grant money from the U.S. Agency for International Development when he worked for a Cuban democracy organization.
Felipe Sixto was promoted on March 1 as a special assistant to the president for intergovernmental affairs and stepped forward on March [...]