Archive for January, 2009
John Boehner Likes Big Butts
And while we’re on the subject of Boehner: Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postShare on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itBookmark in BrowserTell a friend
How Bush’s Life Changed After 9/11
Watching George Bush‘s farewell speech, my predominant reaction: the man is the walking, talking past tense of “an accident waiting to happen”. I can’t believe he really said his life changed after 9/11 because he had an intelligence briefing every morning: As the years passed, most Americans were able to return to life much as [...]
In A Nutshell
I saw this quotation in a book, where it was attributed to Idries Shah (but I cannot find it anywhere online): The sort of man who, throwing a stone upon a ground, would miss A pretty succinct description of George Bush, it seems to me. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postShare on Facebookshare via RedditShare with [...]
They Are Serious. And Stop Calling Me Shirley.
They Can’t Be Serious – David Sirota (1/15/09) The Washington Post reports that the economic recovery package Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are proposing includes a lot of good stuff – aid to cities and states, increased unemployment insurance and food stamps. But here’s the really bad part: The Post says the package “includes about [...]
Oops! Child Terrorist Is Not A Terrorist, After all!
Yesterday, U.S. District Judge Richard Leon — who we last wrote about on November 21, 2008, when he ordered the Bush administration to release five Algerian natives who had been detained at Guantanamo Bay for nearly seven years, ruling that there was no basis for holding them as enemy combatants — ordered the Bush administration [...]
Geithner’s Tax Explanation Just Doesn’t Wash
(1) The consensus seems to be that Tim Geithner‘s tax issues will not impede his confirmation. However, looking at the talking points that “the Obama team is circulating to defend Treasury Secretary-designee Timothy Geithner”, it seems pretty clear to me that only one possible interpretation fits the facts: Geithner deliberately cheated on his taxes. As [...]
Political Comedy
The term political theater is used a lot, but rarely does it ring this true: I’ve been engaged in Democratic politics for quite a while, and I honestly can’t remember the last time they did something this clever. First, a little history. For the first time in nearly 140 years, Republicans are the majority party [...]
Third Monocle This Week
“I simply must stop being so shocked*.” Barack Obama 1996: “I favor legalizing same-sex marriages,and would fight efforts to prohibit such marriages,” Obama wrote in the typed, signed, statement. There was no use of “civil unions,” and “no compromise whatsoever,” the Windy City Times story today notes. On another questionnaire the same year, Obama said [...]
Spinning The Olmert-Bush-Rice Fiasco
You would think practice would have made them perfect by now, but White House and State Department spokesmen are still having trouble smoothly pulling off false denials of media reports containing truths they are not allowed to admit to. Ehud Olmert‘s yanking of Bush/Rice‘s chain over the U.N. Security Council resolution, and his juvenile bragging [...]
The Eyes Of The Law
Because we’re all equal in the eyes of the law, when an investigation by the Bush Justice Department’s Inspector General finds that a former top Justice Department official broke the law, the relevant U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Bush Justice Department declines to prosecute. Because we are, after all, you know, a nation of laws. [...]