Posts filed under “Bush Man Date”
George Bush Wins The Votes He Richly Deserves
President former president George W. Bush may not be running in elections any more, but he’s still winning votes. At least as the worst President of the modern era: Since 1982, the Siena Research Institute has polled presidential scholars on whom they view to be best and worst presidents in American history, based on a [...]
Trapped In A Kafkaesque Nightmare
Yahya Wehelie is an American citizen, born and raised in Virginia, trapped by President Obama‘s homeland security apparatus in a literally Kafkaesque nightmare which ranks right along with some of George Bush‘s most ludicrous homeland security shenanigans. This is far from the first time that Obama has been in the spotlight for seamlessly continuing the [...]
The Dream Team With Feet Of Clay
Back in January 2009, when President Obama was assembling his Justice Department team, liberal bloggers were giddy with excitement over the fine, fine people he was picking. Champions of the Constitution, and paragons of virtue, they were going to preside over the Constitution’s slow but complete recovery from the gang rape it had suffered for [...]
Idle Thoughts, SCOTUS Edition
So by all accounts, President Obama will announce this morning that he is nominating Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. It occurs to me it might be both interesting and profitable to make book on which Republican Senator will offer the most absurdly unfair criticism of her nomination. (I would probably back John [...]
Environmental Disasters In The Time Of Bush (And Their Legacy)
Steve Benen relates a little story from Massey Energy’s murky past that could stand as the dictionary definition of the word “impunity”: Ten years ago, the Big Branch Refuse Impoundment, a giant coal-waste reservoir owned by Massey in Inez, Kentucky, sprung a leak that flooded nearby waterways with so much sludge that it was declared [...]
NSA Wiretap Program NOT Declared Illegal
Yesterday, Judge Vaughn R. Walker handed down a ruling that the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping of Al Haramain, and two of its lawyers, in 2004 was illegal. At first blush, it may seem that Judge Walker held the NSA warrantless wiretapping program to be illegal. Especially when The New York Times‘ lede reads: A federal judge [...]
God Bless You All To Death!
Here’s a high-quality message from President former president George W. Bush, talking on you about Rep. Alan Grayson: Giving credit where credit is due, the video is written and performed by James Adomian. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postShare on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itBookmark in BrowserTell a friend
Horse and Marriage, Horse and Marriage
I’m not sure I understand why poor J.D. Hayworth — who, because he is running in a Republican primary against John “Gramps” McCain, and running from the far-right, to boot, is required to speak at least twice as much nonsense as McCain does — is getting so much flak for warning the nation that the [...]
The State Secrets Privilege
It’s a privilege to be in a position where you can conspire to destroy evidence in order to preserve the ugly secrets of the torture state. A proud privilege. A privilege that Senator Pat Roberts, who used to be chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee back when Bush was adding phrases like “enhanced interrogation” to [...]
UK Court Of Appeals Labels Bush A Liar
(1) We finally have a final resolution of the Binyam Mohamed case in the UK (backstory here): Three of Britain’s most senior judges have ordered the government to reveal evidence of MI5 complicity in the torture of British resident Binyam Mohamed – unanimously dismissing objections by David Miliband, the foreign secretary. In a ruling that [...]