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Peddling Discredited Neocon Batshit Posted 22 Jun 2009 under Media, Obama Uber Alles, Religious Right / Extremists
Anne Gearan’s byline describes her as the “National Security Writer” at AP. Either they don’t use the word correspondent at AP any more, or they’re embarrassed enough about Gearan’s article that they don’t want to dignify her with that term. Gearan thinks that “In his first major test of international leadership, President Barack [...]
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Lies In The News Posted 11 Jun 2009 under Bush Man Date, Economy, Media
Here’s a little round-up of lies that made the news yesterday. (1) Little Lizzie lies again. This time, it was on Campbell Brown’s CNN show, during a “Great Debate” segment with Salon’s Joan Walsh: WALSH: Liz, the top — the top military leaders of our country want Guantanamo closed. President Bush, in June 2009 [sic], gave a [...]
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Makes Perfect Sense Posted 04 Apr 2009 under Depends on the Definition of Change, Obama Uber Alles
Summers Received Hundreds Of Thousands In Speaking Fees From TARP Recipients – Huffington Post (4/3/09): Barack Obama’s chief economic adviser, Larry Summers, received hundreds of thousands of dollars in speaking fees last year from firms that have direct financial interests before the government or are intimately involved in the White House’s bank relief programs. The White House [...]
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Not As Ridiculous As He Hoped Posted 11 Mar 2009 under Bill Clinton, Bush Man Date
Former president George Bush isn’t exactly setting the lecture circuit on fire. The first step in his plan to start making “ridiculous” money out on the lecture circuit (by doing what he does worst) is going to be a March 17 engagement in Calgary, Canada. When that engagement was announced last month, [...]
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Huckabee’s Snake Oil Solution Posted 27 Feb 2009 under Republican Clown Show
Mike Huckabee has evidently pondered the problem of how to bring Republicans bouncing back into political relevance at the national level. And he has come up with a dynamite solution: take a discredited slogan from the most discredited Republican president in living memory, tweak it slightly, and sell it like snake oil. In a speech [...]
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Hypocrisy Watch Posted 24 Feb 2009 under Economy, Obama Uber Alles
Think Progress gets all triumphant with regards to this bit from Obama’s speech: [W]e have lived through an era where too often, short-term gains were prized over long-term prosperity; where we failed to look beyond the next payment, the next quarter, or the next election. A surplus became an excuse to transfer wealth to the wealthy [...]
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Because Once Is Not Enough Posted 13 Feb 2009 under Depends on the Definition of Change, Obama Uber Alles, War on Terror
(1) Just in case we didn’t get the message the first time, Obama has graciously consented to do it again. I think we can look forward to many more slow-motion replays in the weeks ahead. For the second time this week, the Obama administration has gone to court in San Francisco to argue for secrecy in [...]
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Say It Ain’t So, Barack Posted 05 Feb 2009 under Dismantling Bushworld, Obama Uber Alles, War on Terror
Reuters reported a sad and sorry Guantanamo tale yesterday: Two senior British judges accused the United States on Wednesday of threatening to end intelligence cooperation if Britain released evidence about the alleged torture of a Guantanamo detainee. The judges quoted lawyers for Foreign Secretary David Miliband as saying the U.S. government, by reviewing intelligence cooperation, “could inflict [...]
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Welcome Aboard, Chiefs! Posted 04 Feb 2009 under Obama Uber Alles, Welcome Aboard, Chief!
Kos: What have we seen the last few weeks? Democrats caving to GOP demands and inserting useless tax cut provisions to appease them. Then they vote en masse against the stimulus in the House. Meanwhile, Obama hands yet another cabinet post to yet another Republican, this one a right-wing small-government ideologue who voted to eliminate the [...]
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How Bush’s Life Changed After 9/11 Posted 16 Jan 2009 under Bush Man Date, War on Terror
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 it had [...]
