This is the man that George W. Bush and Rudy Giuliani thought should oversee the homeland security of the United States.
Bernard B. Kerik, a former New York police commissioner, pleaded guilty to eight felonies in a Federal District Court in White Plains on Thursday morning. Mr. Kerik, who will be sentenced in February, faces 27 [...]
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Bernard Kerik Pleads Guilty To Corruption
November 5th, 2009
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Meet Your Camp Counselor, Jason Voorhees
November 2nd, 2009
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Ed Lazear was an economic adviser to the Bush administration, and now he thinks he can backseat drive the Obama team’s economic work? What’s he gonna say? “Here, let me drive this car into a ditch, I’m an expert“?
Up next: Donald Rumsfeld explains how to kill thousands of American soldiers.
George W. Bush, Motivational Speaker
October 27th, 2009
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In a karmic sense, Bush should be in chains in a prison somewhere, but going around as a sad sack motivational speaker may also be a fitting fate. I remember in 2001 Republicans blasting President Clinton for giving speeches to business groups and the like for big money. Somehow I think they’ll be silent about [...]
Iraqi Embassy: Another $700 Million Waste On Bush’s Watch
October 26th, 2009
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Legacy
But according to a report issued last week by the State Department’s inspector general, the complex is a monument to shoddy work and incompetent oversight. Walls and walkways are cracking, sewage gas flows back into residences, wiring is substandard, fire protection systems are faulty and other safety provisions are not up to contract specifications.
The report [...]
Robert Gibbs On Cheney’s Beclowning On Afghanistan
October 22nd, 2009
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That anyone listens to people like Cheney is pretty amazing considering the trail of American bodies behind him.
How George W. Bush Stole Your Money
September 14th, 2009
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All those teabagger protesters insist that their real anger is about unaccountable bailouts, so they – and you – should check out this must-read article about how TARP money was just given away without accountability or follow up.
Oh, by the way, this all happened under the Bush administration.
Bush Had Open Door For The American Taliban
September 10th, 2009
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CREW crunched the numbers. Pretty sick the way the religious right defiled our White House during the Bush years.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Government (CREW) has just released a report tallying visits to the Bush White House by major Religious Right players. CREW filed a request for visitor records that coughed up the information.
According [...]
Spare Us The Vetting Lectures
September 7th, 2009
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The result of the thoroughly vetted Donald Rumsfeld’s tenure
Now Bush administration officials are wagging their fingers over the vetting of Van Jones? Really? The people who brought us Donald Rumsfeld, Alberto Gonzales, Harriet Miers, Michael Brown and not to mention Bush and Cheney themselves are going to lecture anyone on vetting?
Negro, please.
Texas Futile Care Law: “Death Panels” Signed Into Law… By Bush
August 23rd, 2009
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Advance Directives Act
The Texas Advance Directives Act (1999), also known as the Texas Futile Care Law, describes certain provisions that are now Chapter 166 of the Texas Health & Safety Code. Controversy over these provisions mainly centers on Section 166.046, Subsection (e), which allows a health care facility to discontinue life-sustaining treatment against the wishes [...]
Proud To Have Been Anti-Bush
August 22nd, 2009
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As Paul Krugman notes, for the past few years to be anti-Bush was to be among America’s most rational.
Bear in mind that by the time the terror alert controversy arose in 2004, we had already seen two tax cuts sold on massively, easily documented false pretenses; a war launched with constant innuendo about a Saddam-Osama [...]
At Washington Post, John Solomon Apparently Worked With Bush White House to Word Story
August 11th, 2009
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He of course is now editor in chief of the Washington Times. Look at that liberal media go!
The House Judiciary Committee has now released over 5400 pages of Bush administration and Republican Party emails (pdf) related to the firings. Several of these emails suggest coordination between Post reporter John Solomon and Bush administration officials on [...]
Team Epic Failure
August 5th, 2009
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That’s the name I’m giving to the former Bush staffers running for public office. These people probably shouldn’t even have their citizenship still, let alone be elected to an office where they can actually do things to people.
Chirac: Bush Said Invasion Of Iraq Was Biblical Mission To Stop Armageddon
August 5th, 2009
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What?
The president of the United States, in a top-secret phone call to a major European ally, asked for French troops to join American soldiers in attacking Iraq as a mission from God.
Now out of office, Chirac recounts that the American leader appealed to their ‘common faith’ (Christianity) and told him: ‘Gog and Magog are at [...]
The Dumbest Thing I’ve Read This Week
July 29th, 2009
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Gregory Levey in Newsweek: “Why Obama should make George W. Bush his Mideast envoy.”
In related news, Godzilla has been appointed to the task force to rebuild Tokyo.
Bushies Tried To Do Away With Posse Comitatus
July 24th, 2009
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B.S. conservative legal theory on display again.
Top Bush administration officials in 2002 debated testing the Constitution by sending American troops into the suburbs of Buffalo to arrest a group of men suspected of plotting with Al Qaeda, according to former administration officials.
Some of the advisers to President George W. Bush, including Vice President Dick Cheney, [...]
File Under “D” For “Duh”
July 12th, 2009
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Sometimes it feels like the House Democrats are the only ones in Washington who remember the last eight years and what those people did to America.
House Democrats said yesterday that they expect to launch a formal investigation into a secret CIA program that was not disclosed to Congress for almost eight years, a probe that [...]
Hey, Dick Cheney’s A Crook
July 11th, 2009
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But you knew that already.
The Central Intelligence Agency withheld information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress for eight years on direct orders from former Vice President Dick Cheney, the agency’s director, Leon E. Panetta, has told the Senate and House intelligence committees, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said Saturday.
The report that [...]
Bush’s Domestic Spy Program Built On B.S. Conservative Legal Theory, Didn’t Protect Us
July 10th, 2009
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People with brains knew this already, but here’s a government report validating us.
The 38-page unclassified version of the document reaches a cautious conclusion, stating that any use of the information collected under the surveillance program ’should be carefully monitored.’
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Among other things, the report cites a Justice Department conclusion that ‘it was extraordinary and inappropriate that [...]
During Bush Era, CIA Lied To Congress
July 8th, 2009
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And this is why President Obama is wrong when he so quickly wants to turn the page on the abuse of this country by George W. Bush and Co.
Central Intelligence Agency Director Leon E. Panetta has told lawmakers that CIA officials misled Congress ‘for a number of years’ since 2001, according to a letter released [...]
Whatever Happened To Hank Paulson?
July 7th, 2009
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For some reason I have been wondering these last few days: what the heck happened to Hank Paulson? The former Wall Street Wizard for Goldman Sachs turned Secretary Of The Treasury under George W. Bush, he presided over the near-economic collapse of the United States. Not many treasury secretaries can profess to such things.
Not only [...]
