It looks like the enemy is engaged in infighting amongst themselves, which means that we are winning. Conservative columnist Neil Boortz writes: There are a lot of listeners out there who really need to make some attempt at growing up. Well, maybe not a lot of listeners .. but quite a few. Yesterday I spent some time on the air … Read More
Tomlinson – Partisan Liar
From the New York Times: Sixteen Democratic senators called on President Bush to remove Kenneth Y. Tomlinson as head of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting because of their concerns that he is injecting partisan politics into public radio and television. Some will no doubt say that Tomlinson is trying to REMOVE partisan politics from public radio and television, because PBS … Read More
What Time Is It?
Bush is plummeting in the polls, republicans and public support are turning against Bush on social security, the War in Iraq, and John Bolton, and everybody’s talking about the hyped-up and “fixed” pre-war intelligence. You know what that means, right? Yup, it’s time for Bush to energize his base by going after the gays. Nothing like playing upon middle America’s … Read More
Operation Yellow Elephant
The objective of OPERATION YELLOW ELEPHANT is to recruit College Republicans and Young Republicans to serve as infantry. They demanded this war and now viciously support it. It’s only right that they also experience it. So far, it isn’t going too well. Recently, as reported here, Operation Yellow Elephant tried to get a recruitment ad into the program of the … Read More
What The Durbin Kerfuffle Reveals About The Right Wing
Yglesius said it for me: A little while ago Dick Durbin noted on the Senate floor that torturing prisoners was the sort of thing Nazis or Communists would do, and that the United States, trying to be one of the world’s good guys, should hold itself to a higher standard of conduct. The right-wing noise machine, deploying some now familiar … Read More
Egregious Is As Egregious Does
"I thought Durbin was totally out of line. I watched some of his comments on the floor of the United States Senate. For him to make those comparisons was one of the more egregious things I’d ever heard uttered on the floor of the United States Senate." — Vice President Dick Cheney, in an interview with radio host Steve Gill. … Read More
White House and White Outs
Think Progress has a nice link-o-riffic list of the many many instances in which the Bush White House has altered or buried expert analysis when the facts didn’t jibe with the adminsitration’s policies. The full text is below. Read it, and ask yourself, are we to believe the fixing of facts around policy didn’t happen with respect to Iraq? Cattle … Read More
Please. Let’s Beat Up Michael Schiavo Some MORE!
Typical republican trick. Look like a fool for your actions so shift the focus onto something else. Like many on the right, Jeb Bush has much egg on his face about the whole Schiavo matter. She was in a persistent vegetative state, she was blind, and had half a brain. Despite what the right-to-useless-lifers stated, Terri Schiavo was never going … Read More
The Shittiest Job On The Planet
No doubt, it belongs to White House Press Secretary Scotty McClellan. The poor guy has to get up in front of the press corp and explain (or explain away) the unexplainable deceptions of the Bush Administration. It can’t be easy. From E&P, here’s an awkward exchange between Scotty and reporter Terry Moran. Moran is referring to Cheney’s recent comment on … Read More
Lame Duck Bush
There’s no other way to view it—even conservative Republicans are backing away from Bush: The [Republican-controlled] House handed President Bush the first defeat in his effort to preserve the broad powers of the USA Patriot Act, voting yesterday to curtail the FBI’s ability to seize library and bookstore records for terrorism investigations. Bush has threatened to veto any measure that … Read More
ExxonMobil-Cooney Timeline
I could rant and rave about the White House’s ass-licking of the oil industry, but sometimes all it takes is to let the facts speak for themselves: Seven days ago: "President’s George Bush’s decision not to sign the United States up to the Kyoto global warming treaty was partly a result of pressure from ExxonMobil, the world’s most powerful oil … Read More
Atta-in-Prague Revisited
Anyone who thinks the Bush Administration was victim to flawed intelligence, take note: BUSH ADMINISTRATION TO PUBLIC: “Well, what we now have that’s developed since you and I last talked, Tim, of course, was that report that–it’s been pretty well confirmed that he [9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta] did go to Prague and he did meet with a senior official of … Read More
Pssst – George! It’s Time To Raise The Terror Alert Level!
Even I am surprised at the Bush sinking ship: Poll: Bush Job Approval Dips to New Low WASHINGTON—As the war in Iraq drags on, President Bush’s job approval and the public’s confidence in the direction he’s taking the nation are at their lowest levels since The Associated Press-Ipsos poll began in December 2003. About one-third of adults, 35 percent, said … Read More
Factoid Du Jour
Bush’s approval rating (around 47%) is about twenty points lower than Clinton’s was around the time of his impeachment. Popular president, my ass.
Corruption So Startling, Even GOP Stalwarts Take Notice
You know it’s bad when even GOP senators want to know why the White House is hiding information from Congress on what John Warner called “the most significant defense procurement mismanagement in contemporary history.” Both Warner and John McCain, as well as Carl Levin want to know why the White House is sending redacted emails and other materials to the … Read More