NEW YORK YANKEES PITCHER CORY LIDLE CONFIRMED AS PILOT OF NYC CRASHED PLANE; PRESIDENT BUSH ANNOUNCES PLANS TO INVADE SHEA STADIUM [Joke explained for the baseball-impaired: Shea Stadium is home to the New York Mets]
Public Speaking
The Talent Show guy looks at Bushie’s press conference from this morning: "The — you know, I — obviously I’m listening very carefully to this debate." "And now all of a sudden, people are saying, you know, ‘The Bush administration ought to be going it alone with North Korea.’" "Somebody said he said, ‘Well, you know, cut-and-run isn’t working.’ That’s … Read More
Republicans: Bad For Rapture
Preacher says GOP delaying 2nd coming: Voters should oust congressional Republican leaders because U.S. foreign policy is delaying the second coming of Jesus Christ, according to a evangelical preacher trying to influence closely contested political races. K.A. Paul railed against the war in Iraq on Sunday before a crowd of 1,000 at the New Spirit Revival Center in Cleveland Heights, … Read More
“Let’s Not Mince Words…”
Let’s not mince words: President Bush is a profound threat to the US constitution. From the AP … President Bush, again defying Congress, says he has the power to edit the Homeland Security Department’s reports about whether it obeys privacy rules while handling background checks, ID cards and watchlists. In the law Bush signed Wednesday, Congress stated no one but … Read More
State Of Denial
Digby: "In the midst of all the excitement over the GOP congress’s under-age cyberstalking, I hope that we don’t lose sight of the other white meat — Woodward’s astonishing revelations in his new book ‘State of Denial.’" Slate’s John Dickerson says: The book paints the administration as clueless, dishonest, and dysfunctional. The behind-the-scenes anecdotes are irresistible. Laura Bush telling her … Read More
Bush’s Church To Bush: “Get Out Of Iraq”
The United Methodist Church (Bush’s religion of choice) took a stance the past weekend: United Methodist Church leaders helped launch a week of protest and civil disobedience against the war in Iraq by signing a declaration of peace urging President Bush to pull U.S. troops out of the country. The Declaration of Peace, signed Sept. 21, is described as a … Read More
Bush Loyalty Trumps Experience
WaPo reports on how Jim O’Beirne’s office in the Pentagon valued blind loyalty to Bush over ability and experience in managing post-invasion Iraq: O’Beirne’s staff posed blunt questions to some candidates about domestic politics: Did you vote for George W. Bush in 2000? Do you support the way the president is fighting the war on terror? Two people who sought … Read More
On John Yoo
Never in my life have I witnessed such incredible incompetence in a constitutional scholar. I am referring to John Yoo, Bush’s legal advisor on torture and detainee policy, and his gloriously boneheaded op-ed in the New York Times. Yoo makes this wildly absurd claim: [T]he founders intended that wrongheaded or obsolete legislation and judicial decisions would be checked by presidential … Read More
On Bush’s Speech Last Night
This commentary in the New York Times nails it: Fending off the chaos that would almost certainly come with civil war would be a reason to stay the course, although it does not inspire the full-throated rhetoric about freedom that Mr. Bush offered last night. But the nation needs to hear a workable plan to stabilize a fractured, disintegrating country … Read More
Anti-Gay Rove Loves His Gay Dead Dad
One of the arguments against gay marriage — and by extension, adoption of children by gay parents — is that it supposedly screws up the kids. That’s what the "pro-family" tightwads say, although they have no research to back up that claim. On the other hand, there is one good case study about the effect of gay parents on kids, … Read More
Bush’s Interview With Katie Couric
He said: "One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror." Yup, I’m sure it is. Just like one of the hardest parts of my job is flying to the moon. Impossible, non-sensical things are always hard, Mr. President.
Olbermann On Bush (Again)
Good stuff: It is to our deep national shame—and ultimately it will be to the President’s deep personal regret—that he has followed his Secretary of Defense down the path of trying to tie those loyal Americans who disagree with his policies—or even question their effectiveness or execution—to the Nazis of the past, and the al Qaeda of the present. Today, … Read More
Fist Through A Wall
Yup. Shakespeare’s Sister is dead on here: President Shirky McShrugsalot: “[D]ependence on foreign oil jeopardizes our ability to grow." "Problem is, we get oil from some parts of the world and they simply don’t like us," he said. "The more dependent we are on that type of energy, the less likely it will be that we are able to compete … Read More
Can’t Hide The Truth
Bush kas launched a public relations offensive designed to convince you how swimmingly Iraq is, and how Iraq nay-sayers (which constitute two-thirds of all Americans) are a bunch of terrorist-kissing pansy appeasers. His problem, of course, is that facts impede the lies message that Bush is trying to convey. Here’s a screen capture from CNN earlier today. Bush is giving … Read More
Katrina Anniversary
First, some one-year-after-the-fact facts: – Less than half of the city’s pre-storm population of 460,000 has returned, putting the population at roughly what it was in 1880. – Nearly a third of the trash has yet to be picked up. – Sixty percent of homes still lack electricity. – Seventeen percent of the buses are operational. – Half of the … Read More