by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy Despite the state Board of Pardons and Parole voting to spare Robert Lee Thompson's life, Bush Jr's successor, Rick 'Hair Club of Men' Perry voted to kill him anyway. Why have a board when you have a dictator? Even as the controversy over his execution of an innocent man goes unresolved, last night the Texas Governor rejected a rare clemency recommendation from...
Love him or hate him, George W. Bush presided over one of the noisiest presidencies in history. There were debates over wars of necessity and wars of choice, alarm and rancor over ballooning budgets and new social entitlements, a bold mix of political and religious rhetoric, and the projection of...
Saying that critics are “understating the criminal justice system’s capacities,” two top Bush Justice officials came out in support of Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed and other Guantanamo detainees in federal court. Writing in the Washington Post, Jim Comey, former deputy attorney general and U.S. attorney in Manhattan, and Jack [...]
James Comey and Jack Goldsmith, high-ranking Department of Justice officials under Bush, have an op-ed in the Washington Post defending Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to prosecute Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other detainees in federal criminal court instead of a military commission proceeding. The conclusion is fine: But Holder's critics do not help their case by understating the criminal...
On Tuesday, Senate Democrats beat back Jeff Sessions’ filibuster of Obama’s first judicial nominee – Judge David Hamilton – by a reassuring margin of 70-29 . Sessions lost ten of his fellow Republicans, including conservatives like Hatch, Cornyn, and Thune, and Hamilton will be confirmed Thursday afternoon to the Seventh Circuit. That’s the good news. The bad news is...
-Posted by D.C. Worth (for Barbay) Bottom 3 colors (in chart) are a massive Gov engine spending; as Democrats prevent Bush critical reform point (arrow: 18.8% GDP) Image: SBO: 2005 [ENLARGE] FACT: Privatisation of Social Security would have resulted in a redistribution of power from the state to tax-payers , thus enhancing personal freedom, promoting faster economic growth, and raise in savings rate....
“60 Minutes” ran a wonderful segment on the restoration of the Iraqi marshes. Saddam Hussein drained thousands of miles of marshland after the 1991 War and slaughtered the Marsh Arabs who lived there. But after Iraq was liberated from this brutal tyrant the US helped resurrect this region in southern Iraq. Watch CBS News Videos Online One [...]
Via Greg Sargent : With Republicans hammering the Obama administration for trying suspected 9/11 terrorists in a New York court, a Democrat points out that in 2006, George W. Bush seemed to say outright that terrorists should be “tried in courts here in the United States.” There was no outcry at the time. Bush's line was : "I believe they ought to be tried in courts here in the United...
A new survey from PPP (PDF) shows that 26% of Americans, most of whom are Republicans, think that ACORN stole the election for President Obama. For the sake of comparison, a Gallup poll immediately following Gore's concession in the 2000 election showed that 18% of the county, a significant percentage of whom were African-American, believed that Bush stole the election. In 2004, the numbers for Bush...
The Hill In a fiery exchange at Thursday’s Joint Economic Committee hearing with ranking Republican Kevin Brady (Texas), who suggested that Geithner had “failed” and should reconsider his job, the Treasury secretary asserted that he and his team had made great strides bringing the economy back from “the brink.” “I agree with almost nothing of what you [...]
Some critics are lambasting President Obama for record deficits. This is not a productive line of attack, largely because it puts the focus on the wrong variable. America’s fiscal problem is excessive government spending, and deficits are merely a symptom of that underlying disease. Moreover, if deficits are perceived as the problem, that means both [...]
Remember this oldy but goody from President Neophyte on his second day as President? “Going forward, anytime the American people want to know something that I or a former president wants to withhold, we will have to consult with the Attorney General and the white house counsel, whose business it is to ensure compliance with the [...]
Seems the left may have to take a day off from their frothing temper tantrum over Sarah Palin and direct their unbridled anger in another direction. But where do they focus the rage? On Barack Obama or this young lady'Former press secretary to President George W. Bush Dana Perino was appointed as a member of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Wednesday evening. The board governs all
Because Gherald and I have apparently decreed that today is Día de los Gráficos*, I put together a little visual aid for you to use in conversations with random wingnuts on the oh-so-serious topic of how Obama is "dithering" on deciding on a strategy to address the flaming paper bag of dog excrement (i.e., the war in Afghanistan) that Bush laid on Obama's doorstep. Enjoy! Some...
WHEN BUSH DITHERED ON IRAQ: Jackson Diehl : [After months of deliberation in 2006], no one accused George W. Bush of dithering. So why does Barack Obama keep hearing the taunt as he deliberates about Afghanistan -- and why do even some who sympathize with his dilemma find it hard to shake the feeling that this commander in chief lacks resolve? One part of the answer is easy: Bush was renowned for summoning...
Morality is always a hot topic in America and has been since the pilgrims first slipped on moss-covered Plymouth Rock. And in that discussion, it's easy to see that George Bush's concept of morality is a sort of Yale philosophy class taken via Cliff's Notes.
Sultry actress Pamela Anderson reveals he is planning to give U.S. president elect Barack Obama a book of essays, titled “One Can Make A Difference.” it is a book that features thoughts, stories & musings from notable names, like Sir Paul McCartney, Willie Nelson, His Holiness The Dalai Lama, Petra Nemcova, Moby, & Kevin Bacon.
With only a handful of days left, the Bush administration is polishing the Edsel-in-Chief’s corroded image. But at the end of the day, if there's a turnaround, it's because you can afford to be charitable when the effects of presidential crapitude aren’t so direct.
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