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1. Guard Dogs And Peanut Butter Posted 08 Oct 2009 under Bush Man Date, Iraq War, War on Terror

   This, apparently, is what happens if enough generations of economics professors hold forth in class enough times about “guns and butter”. The phrase enters the national consciousness. And there it festers. Sometimes, it mutates randomly. In the time of George Bush, that valiant guardian of morality (especially in the military) and [...]

2. With The Full Knowledge Of His Peers Posted 19 Jun 2009 under Republican Clown Show

   One aspect of the John Ensign sexual-harassment-and-adultery scandal that I find most interesting is the light it sheds on the way the Republican party operates, on the real values of the so-called family-values party. (Also, how come no one is talking about this as sexual harassment? When you repeatedly engage in sex with an employee [...]

3. Three Dimensional Chess Posted 28 Jan 2009 under Economy, Obama Uber Alles

   Bowers: As demonstrated on so many occasions, most recently by the 95% drop in Republican support for TARP, almost all Republicans in Congress are bad faith actors. You can’t compromise or appeal to people whose motives are simply to oppose you, rather than to actually stand for any principles or values (except, I guess, the principle [...]

4. When Guantanamo Precipitates A Head Examination Posted 04 Dec 2008 under Bush Man Date, Corruption, Media, War on Terror

   Lt Col Darrel Vandeveld was a gung ho reservist when he was called up after 9/11 to serve as a military lawyer. He was still all fired up about his mission when he was appointed a prosecutor for the Guantanamo military commissions. “I went down there on a mission and my mission was to convict [...]

5. Shocked And Stunned, Are We? Posted 28 Oct 2008 under Congressional Man Date, Corruption, Media

   (1) The Los Angeles Times describes the conviction of Sen. Ted Stevens as “a stunning verdict”. Really? This is the clown who was caught on tape with the guy who bribed him, who confessed to bribing him, and who testified against him, discussing their wrongdoing in pretty frank terms: The jury also heard telephone [...]

6. Shame On You, Alberto! Posted 26 Jul 2007 under Corruption, General Gonzo

   Sen. Charles Schumer had this to say about Buttercheeks today: The attorney general took an oath to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Instead, he tells the half-truth, the partial truth and everything but the truth. And he does it not once, and not twice, but over and over and over [...]

7. Vitter: No, It’s Not The Damn Hypocrisy Posted 12 Jul 2007 under Corruption

   Practically every story I have seen in the last few days on liberal blogs about the comeuppance of Sen. David Vitter has focused on the hypocrisy angle, or felt compelled to justify itself by pointing out that it’s fair game to post about Vitter confessing to consorting with prostitutes because of his vast hypocrisy. [...]

8. Paulson Prediction Patrol Posted 09 May 2007 under Economy, Hank Paulson

   Last month, we took a look at Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson’s take on housing and the economy: “All the signs I look at” show “the housing market is at or near the bottom,” Paulson said. The U.S. economy is “very healthy” and “robust,” he said. Just a few days later, the “very healthy” and “robust” US economy [...]

9. Compendium Posted 04 Oct 2006 under Congressional Man Date, General

   (1) Mirror, Mirror On The Wall A diplomat is supposed to lie abroad for the good of her country. But Condoleezza Rice is a mirror-image Secretary Of State. She has managed to get it fully reversed: she lies at home for the bad of her country. You are only supposed to rise to your level of incompetence. [...]

10. Sanitizing The Detainee Treatment Legislation Discussion Posted 15 Sep 2006 under '06/'08 Campaigns, Podium Spin, War on Terror

    (1) The Bush administration is trying to spin this as a dispute about legal clarity and whether CIA interrogators are going to be protected from the risk of prosecution for doing their jobs. It is, of course, nothing of the kind. It is a dispute about what kind of interrogation practices the CIA will be permitted [...]