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Seriously, I’m stunned. Stunned that I can still be appalled by anything GWB could do/say.
“President Bush is well aware that the banner should have been much more specific and said `mission accomplished’ for these sailors who are on this ship on their mission,” White House press secretary Dana Perino said Wednesday. “And we have [...]

Bush has nominated Gen. Petraeus to head the U.S. Central Command, replacing Admiral William Fallon. Fallon wasn’t too keen on the whole “bomb Iran” thing, so he got canned. But remember, Bush always listens to his “commanders on the ground!” Politics never enters the equation, of course!!
And, of course, who could possibly [...]

Friedman has a nice essay in today’s NYT laying out just how far America’s fallen as a result of Bush’s disastrous post-9/11 overreaction.
Like all good satire, the story [in the Onion] made me both laugh and cry, because it reflected something so true — how much, since 9/11, we’ve become “The United States of Fighting [...]

I usually think Krugman is a windbag [takes one to know one!], but at least he, too, listens to B&P:
As far as I can tell, America has never fought a war in which mercenaries made up a large part of the armed force. But in Iraq, they are so central to the effort that, as [...]

Ah, L’il Kid Nuclear arrives to much protesting in NYC. I love it. The delicious irony of conservative twits getting their knickers in a twist over Ahmadinejad’s invite to speak at Columbia. Land of the Free denying El Presidente a chance to tour Ground Zero. Ahmadinejad baiting America’s hatemongers by pointing [...]

Being beholden to a lender induces a state of servitude which in its extreme instances is exactly akin to outright enslavement.  Enslavement, whether by chain or by checkbook, is the opposite of liberty, the most American of values.  Thus have personages from Christ to Franklin proffered admonishments against indebtedness.
But Bush — and, under his watch, [...]

Believe Bush’s lies (damn lies) or not if you will [I don't], but in truth there are people out there plotting to kill us. Put that in your hookah and smoke it.
Once you’ve accepted this basic truth, it’s time to get a grip on your expectations. Bush and his cronies persist in the [...]

Yesterday, I posted about the new National Intelligence Estimate Bush’s cronies trotted out just in time to muddle the ongoing Congressional discussions about an Iraq pullout. This report — created by the office of the Director of National Intelligence and entitled “The Terrorist Threat to the U.S. Homeland” — alleges that al Queda [...]

Like a big steaming pile delivered to a neighbor’s door by a petulant little boy, Bush’s disastrous legacy will live on in the form of an increased risk of terrorism.  A recent National Intelligence Estimate notes the increased danger.
“Of note,” the [report] said, “we assess that al-Qaida will probably seek to leverage the contacts and [...]

Yglesias explains rather succinctly:
It’s also true that for a two term president who enjoyed GOP congressional control for several years, he really does have remarkably few legislative accomplishments. Where other leaders would have seen an opportunity to push a governing agenda, Bush saw an opportunity to evade congressional oversight as he used the executive [...]