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Tony Snow Remembered On "Face The Nation"
2008-07-15 02:21:00 A person who passed too young, former White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, was remembered on CBS' "Face The Nation":
The Tale of Lies by the Vice President and President
2008-06-07 03:28:00 We have known about the President and Vice President’s web of lies which led up the war in Iraq for some time. The book Hubris, by David Corn and Michael Isikoff, does an excellent job of documenting what was wrong and why we knew them to be wrong. The Los Angeles ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The Tale of Lies by the Vice President and President", url: "http://www.whereistheoutrage.n-et/wordpress/2008/06/06/the-tal-e-of-lies-by-the-vice-president--and-president/" });
Jesus Denounces McCain, Endorses Obama
2008-06-06 23:01:00 In a stunning turn of events Thursday, the Son of God endorsed Barack Obama for President while rejecting and distancing himself from presumptive Republican nominee John McCain. Outside an Applebee's off the New Jersey Turnpike in Paramus yesterday, Jesus Christ told reporters, "Look, it's been a very divisive primary season between Barack and Hillary. I thought my support would aid the healing process and help unify the Democrats." Asked if he was a registered Democrat, Jesus replied, "I'm actually registered with the Green Party. But no amount of faith and prayer will get their candidate elected." Christ clarified, "I perform miracles, but there are limits."
Quotabull
2008-06-06 18:39:00 We were just having fun making posters. There was no time to think about what we were doing. It was a furious time, but I think most great art is created in a furious moment. ? Stanley Mouse, artistic partner of Alton Kelley; the pair created hundreds of classic psychedelic rock posters and threw “the world’s first psychedelic dance-concerts at Longshoreman’s Hall in September 1965, essentially starting the San Francisco scene”; Mr. Kelley died this week at age 67; June 3. When it comes to issues like this, [corporations] don?t want to be anywhere near them and they will cave very, very quickly ? anything to stop the pain, anything to stop the press from calling. ? Eric Dezenhall, the head of the crisis public relations firm Dezenhall Resources, on Dunkin? Donuts’ decision to remove an ad from its Web site featuring celebrity chef Rachael Ray after conservative bloggers complained her scarf resembled a keffiyeh, labeling it ?jihadi chic“; May 30...
Excuses
2008-06-05 10:01:00 Excuses In China It’s The Fallout Of A Natural Disaster In Iraq It’s The Price Of “Spreading Freedom”
One of the ?Smartest People? Fareed Zakaria Knows?
2008-06-05 00:56:00 "Deadly hawks come in many styles. Some have polished talons." - Norman Solomon Fareed Zakaria debuted his new show for CNN this past Sunday. Introducing his program, called Fareed Zakaria GPS (as in Global Public Square, not Global Positioning System, though the latter might also apply), he explains:
My congressman?s ?best? idea? A legislative game show
2008-06-04 23:30:00 My Republican congressman, in the spirit of fully representative democracy, has discovered how to best serve his constituents: Let ‘em vote on what he ought to do. Rep. John R. “Randy” Kuhl, R-N.Y., has sent his constituents a franked, four-color mailer announcing the “Fix Washington Project”: Congressman Kuhl wants to hear from you. Between May 16th and July 18th, Congressman Kuhl is seeking your input and ideas regarding any federal issue. Residents of the 29th district can e-mail, call or fax their ideas to the Congressman’s office. Once all of the ideas have been submitted, five will be chosen and posted on Rep. Kuhl’s website to allow his constituents to from the list of five. The idea that gets the most votes will be introduced on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. [emphasis in original; press release] Rep. Kuhl’s mailing says, “Now is the time to fix Washington.” Now? He’s been in office for 43 mon...
Countdown - Scott McClellan, part 3 - Dean
2008-05-31 04:56:00 I know that I haven’t posted this in order but I thought it was important for me to post this segment now. John Dean has been on Countdown numerous times. In some ways, John Dean and Scott McClellan are alike. Dean told the truth on the Nixon administration and McClellan appears to ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Countdown - Scott McClellan, part 3 - Dean", url: "http://www.whereistheoutrage.n-et/wordpress/2008/05/30/countdo-wn-scott-mcclellan-part-3-dean/-" });
WH: McClellan Misled Us, Not ?Doughy-Faced Goebbels?
2008-05-31 01:14:00 The Bush administration and its surrogates are stepping up attacks against former press secretary Scott McClellan over his explosive White House memoir. Ari Fleischer, President Bush's first press secretary and McClellan's old boss, elaborated this morning on previous statements from several current and former Bush administration officials that "this is not the Scott I know." Speaking with NBC Today co-host Matt Lauer, Fleisher said, "You know, Matt, the guy we all knew seemed completely willing to disseminate lies about a war of choice that would lead to the senseless deaths of over one million Iraqis and 4,000-plus American soldiers. In other words, we knew him as a loyal, soft-spoken and honorable man. Scott led us to believe that he, like us, was little more than a soulless husk of a human being. A ruthless, unethical, democracy-killing zombie. Sadly, that's apparently not the case."
Countdown - Scott McClellan, part 2
2008-05-30 05:51:00 The first book from a Washington insider that I remember reading was Paul O’Neill, former Secretary of the Treasury’s, book, The Price of Loyalty or was it Richard Clarke’s Book, Against All Enemies. Anyway, it doesn’t matter. Both books painted a picture of Cheney more in charge of the White House than George ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Countdown - Scott McClellan, part 2", url: "http://www.whereistheoutrage.n-et/wordpress/2008/05/29/countdo-wn-scott-mcclellan-part-2/" });
Scott McClellan on Today
2008-05-30 03:25:00 This is a rather long interview with Scott McClellan. For reasons that are unclear to me the White House is really pushing back. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Scott McClellan on Today", url: "http://www.whereistheoutrage.n-et/wordpress/2008/05/29/scott-m-cclellan-on-today/" });
Disgruntled
2008-05-29 10:01:00 Disgruntled Another Word For Deciding To Tell The Truth (For Once) Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan’s book came out this week The White House Is Kinda Pissed
The Empire Strikes Back against McClellan
2008-05-28 20:41:00 We could have used our Carnac the Magnificent impression to predict the White House’s response. He is bitter. He wasn’t in the loop. Dana Perino released a statement in which she threw Scott McClellan under the bus, “Scott, we now know, is disgruntled about his experience at the White House. For those ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The Empire Strikes Back against McClellan", url: "http://www.whereistheoutrage.n-et/wordpress/2008/05/28/the-emp-ire-strikes-back-against-mcclel-lan/" });
Scott McClellan Lashes Out At Bush White House In New Book
2008-05-28 03:46:00 We’ve heard rumors about former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan’s new book titled, ?What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington?s Culture of Deception” for some time now. Just last November McClellan’s publisher released an excerpt from the book that seemed to implicate the Bush Administration in the Valerie Flame Plame leak case. Just a ...
By: The Hot Joints
Memorial Day
2008-05-26 10:01:00 Memorial Day Forgetting This Jackass Was Ever President Would Be The Best Way To Honor This Holiday
Bush golfing again, says ?long nat?l nightmare? over
2008-05-23 21:11:00 President Bush, who recently revealed he gave up playing golf on Aug. 19, 2003 because it “sends the wrong signal” during a time of war, has ended his near five-year sacrifice. The Wounded-Courier has obtained a rush transcript of the president’s discussion to air tonight on Fox News’ Special Report with Brit Hume. The following is an excerpt from that interview: BRIT HUME: Mr. President, why did you decide to take up golf again? PRESIDENT BUSH: Well, Brit, I’ve proven my solidarity with our troops and their families. I haven’t hit the links for longer than the longest tours of duty of any of our brave fighting men and women. And, quite frankly, I think this country has sacrificed enough. BRIT HUME: A tremendous sacrifice indeed, Mr. President. I’m sure our citizens will breathe a sigh of relief knowing that our progress in the war on terror is such that their commander-in-chief can once more safely bestride golf courses across America. PRES...
Quotabull
2008-05-23 20:31:00 [P]erhaps the most compelling evidence against the existence of a boys? crisis is that men continue to outearn women in the workplace. ? from a report by the American Association of University Women, “whose 1992 report on how girls are shortchanged in the classroom caused a national debate over gender equity,” that debunks the notion of a “boys’ crisis,” saying, “Girls? gains have not come at boys? expense”; May 20. I would say the president really has a choice here to show how much he values military service. ? Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., who has led the Senate?s efforts to expand education benefits for veterans, on President Bush’s threat “to veto a bill that would pay tuition and other expenses at a four-year public university for anyone who has served in the military for at least three years since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001″; May 22. What’s this administration done? Nothing except to increase energy taxes. ? Sen. Do...
?I?ll stand up to those special interests.? Really? How?
2008-05-21 23:05:00 We are all going to die. When we do, an industry with 100,000 employees will annually collect about $11 billion in revenue from our survivors, who presumably love us and wish to put us to rest with appropriate pomp and circumstance. Requiescat in pace, although survivors’ wallets might not. Since 2002, after authorities found the remains of 339 people scattered about the grounds of a Georgia crematorium, the funeral industry has been visited by a wave of regulatory activity in many states. Not surprisingly, the funeral industry, a monopoly in many ways, wishes to influence that regulatory activity. It has also sought to influence drafting and revision of federal regulations, most notably the Federal Trade Commission’s “Funeral Rule.” According to a richly detailed and footnoted report by Scott Jordan of the National Institute on Money in State Politics, from 1999 to 2006 the industry has coughed up $6 million in political contributions spread over politica...
The North Korea Challenge
2008-05-16 07:01:00 In these two articles, AEI’s Danielle Pletka and John R. Bolton bring us up to date and discuss the larger implications of developments since Kim Jong Il pledged to give up his nuclear ambitions in exchange for diplomatic recognition and foreign aid. Pletka reminds readers that since North Korea signed the 1994 accord, it has ...
By: 1913 Intel
Syrian Ambassador to the US 'Imad Mustafa Slams Bush Administration over Sy
2008-05-14 00:22:00 'Imad Mustafa: Even though this story [about a Syrian nuclearreactor] is ridiculous, we do not take it lightly. This administrationis characterized by a great deal of recklessness, in addition to itscapabilities of fabricating and lying, and of causing the utmost damageto other nations, as well as to the American nation itself. This is notpropaganda. This is the reality in which the American people is livingright now. Therefore, we do not take this story lightly. We believethat this story comes in a certain context. This story, as presented bythe American administration, is another link in a continuous chain ofactions, which the U.S. administration has been taking against Syriafor at least four years. There are two very significant differences between then and now.When the U.S administration made its false claims in the past ? eventhough some people doubted the claims about Iraqi WMDs ? the Americanpolitical establishment as a whole accepted the administration'saccount, in order t...
Pols fail to comprehend breadth of infrastructure crisis
2008-05-13 00:43:00 About 10 months have passed since the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis collapsed into the Mississippi River during afternoon rush hour, killing 13 people and injuring 145. Construction of the bridge’s $234 million replacement may be finished in mid-September, three months ahead of schedule, earning builders a $20 million bonus. The Minnesota Legislature and Gov. Tim Pawlenty have agreed on a $38 million state fund to help compensate the victims of the Aug. 1 disaster. All’s well, eh? Perhaps for this bridge in this city. But nationwide, all is not well. Road, bridge and other important public-works infrastructure continue to age and deteriorate as Congress dithers elsewhere. Only disasters move our representatives to act ? and in an election year, even those actions seem spotty at best and disingenuous at worst. The United States has much more than failing bridges to find, fund and fix. The proposals of the remaining presidential candidates do little to inspire faith that th...
Ex-State officials allege corruption cover up
2008-05-12 23:09:00 WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration repeatedly ignored corruption at the highest levels within the Iraqi government and kept secret potentially embarrassing information so as not to undermine its relationship with Baghdad, according to two former State Department employees. Arthur Brennan, who briefly served in Baghdad as head of the department’s Office of Accountability and Transparency ...
By: TexasFred's
Nota bene
2008-05-12 14:20:00 Got hot links if you want ‘em! In “Mr. Cool’s Intensity” in the Washington Post, David Ignatius writes of Obama’s reluctance to write off Rev. Wright. There’s “an instinctive American fondness for people who don’t rat out their friends, even when their friends are creeps. That’s why a Wright-based strategy may backfire for the Republicans, just as it did for Hillary Clinton.” The New York Times’s pro-globalization and once pro-Iraq war columnist Tom Friedman seems to have mellowed during the sabbatical from which he recently returned. In “Who Will Tell the People?” he writes: “Much nonsense has been written about how Hillary Clinton is ‘toughening up’ Barack Obama so he’ll be tough enough to withstand Republican attacks. Sorry, we don’t need a president who is tough enough to withstand the lies of his opponents. We need a president who is tough enough to tell the truth to the ...
Laughter, Tears As ?Bush Administration? Wraps
2008-05-11 16:45:00 Washington, D.C. — Between takes, the usual clowning and good-natured sexual harassment on set of The Bush Administration is tinged with melancholy. Because the cast knows that today, the landmark sitcom wraps production on its 8th and final season. The series finale, set to air in January 2009, marks the end of an era. ...
What Happened to the USS Cole Investigation?
2008-05-11 07:33:00 When I read this, I couldn’t believe it. I thought that the guys who plotted the attack on the USS Cole were caught, sentenced, and now behind bars. I guess I missed something. Some of those who were caught were thrown in jail only to be later released. So, what kind of cooperation ...
US says Syria, Iran behind Lebanon violence
2008-05-10 06:53:00 The Bush administration accused Iran and Syria on Friday of fueling ongoing violence in Lebanon by inciting members of the radical Shiite Hezbollah movement to take up arms against the country’s western-backed government. As Hezbollah militants seized control of large parts of Beirut, the administration denounced the show of force, which it said was being supported ...
By: 1913 Intel
Why Oil Wealth Fuels Conflict
2008-05-10 04:09:00 The number of oil-producer-based conflicts is likely to grow in the future as stratospheric prices of crude oil push more countries in the developing world to produce oil and gas. In 2001, the Bush administration’s energy task force hailed the emergence of new producers as a chance for the United States to diversify the sources ...
By: 1913 Intel
Suicide Bombers Again
2008-05-07 12:00:00 According to the interior ministry, five suicide bombers may strike in any city or any figure in the country in the following days. This is the news we have heard after the gap of some time. When the new government came and it started the change process on surface, the winds of national reconciliation also reached ...
Trendlines
2008-05-06 10:01:00 Trendlines A Way To Quantify The Vortex Of Suck That Is The Bush Administration
My congressman?s advice on oil, gas prices ? not so good
2008-05-02 22:05:00 My congressman sent me his May 2008 newsletter today via e-mail to explain to me why gasoline prices are so high and what he’s doing about it. His analysis is unimpressive. According to the newsletter and its link to his Web site, Rep. John R. “Randy” Kuhl (R-N.Y.) says: Why are gas prices so high? The high price of gasoline results from the cost of crude oil, the world demand and supply for oil, our limited refining capacity, and taxes. [emphasis added] But what didn’t make his list? Rep. Kuhl did not mention the role of a weakened dollar in the cost of crude. Nor did he point to speculation ? which Congress said added $20 to a barrel of oil back when oil cost $70 per barrel ? as a root cause of precipitous price increases. According to Peter Way of Block Traders’ Oil & Gold Monitor: [W]e observed that a tug-of-war was developing between the regulars and the newer speculators that would influence world energy costs. Until recently, the contest ha...
Appropo
2008-05-02 10:01:00 Appropo Finally George W Bush Has Found A Site Befitting His Presidential Library
The Bush Administration?s Shroud of Secrecy
2008-05-01 15:41:00 Sudhan @15:40 CET Secret Law and the Threat to Democratic Government By Sen. RUSS FEINGOLD | Counterpunch, April 30, 2008 More than any other Administration in recent history, this Administration has a penchant for secrecy. To an unprecedented degree, it has invoked executive privilege to thwart congressional oversight and the state secrets privilege to shut down lawsuits. It ...
By: Suzie-Q
Bush Blames Ecomonic Problems on Democrats
2008-04-29 21:38:00 Our President has gone out of his way to take credit for nothing– not one thing– especially if it’s gone badly. So, our current economic problems are the fault of terrible financial policies? No– it is the Democrat’s fault. Of course. I’m not sure why I didn’t think of that at first. ...
Nota bene
2008-04-29 01:20:00 Got hot links if you want ‘em! Headline of the week: CLINTON CHALKS UP KEY MEANINGLESS VICTORY. At Asia Times Online courtesy of Muhammad Cohen. (Yes, that’s his real name.) In her Los Angeles Times column, “My Winning Strategy,” Rosa Brooks writes of Hillary Clinton: “But they said I had to win by double digits to keep my campaign alive. . . . And I am alive! And kicking! And punching and biting and kneeing my opponent in the groin!” Last week Hillary said of Iran, “In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them.” At Informed Comment, Juan Cole responds: “Clinton’s rather bloodthirsty pandering to what she thinks the Israel lobbies want to hear is likely actually to produce the opposite of the desired reaction in Iran itself . . . . [She’s] now just flailing around fantasizing about incinerating children in playgrounds in Isf...
America?s China Worries - Part III
2008-04-26 15:27:00 Growing Chinese presence in the Pacific islands unsettles locals and poses questions for the US In recent decades, the South Pacific has been a friendly region for the US and its interests, including islands that sit on Asia’s doorstep. But the rise of China and its growing interest in the Pacific islands may be emerging as ...
By: 1913 Intel
'The inside story of how the Bush administration pushed disinformation and
2008-04-26 09:30:00 From: The Lie Factory It's a crisp fall day in western Virginia, a hundred miles from Washington, D.C., and a breeze is rustling the red and gold leaves of the Shenandoah hills. On the weather-beaten wood porch of a ramshackle 90-year-old farmhouse, at the end of a winding dirt-and-gravel road, Lt. Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski is perched on a plastic chair, wearing shorts, a purple sweatshirt, and muddy sneakers. Two scrawny dogs and a lone cat are on the prowl, and the air is filled with swarms of ladybugs. So far, she says, no investigators have come knocking. Not from the Central Intelligence Agency, which conducted an internal inquiry into intelligence on Iraq, not from the congressional intelligence committees, not from the president's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. All of those bodies are ostensibly looking into the Bush administration's prewar Iraq intelligence, amid charges that the White House and the Pentagon exaggerated, distorted, or just plai...
By: Circle of 13
[Dumbass] Bush Administration finds way to cut cost of war in Iraq: they?ve
2008-04-25 23:13:00 (Durant Democrat)
Bush Administration Releases Images of Syrian Reactor
2008-04-25 04:39:00 WASHINGTON - The Bush administration released detailed photographic images on Thursday to support its assertion that the building in Syria that Israel destroyed in an airstrike last year was a nuclear reactor constructed with years of help from North
By: Get rich
TDS - Journalist exchange program
2008-04-24 05:02:00 We have all heard about embedded journalists. Sunday the New York Times reported that many of the military experts that we saw on our TV’s during the run up to the war in Iraq were in fact on the Pentagon’s payroll or on the payroll of a major defense contractor. This is not ...
Senators Blast Bush Administration Cover Up In VA
2008-04-23 16:26:00 Two Democratic senators demanded the resignation of the chief mental health official of the Veterans Affrairs Department saying he tried to cover up the rising number of veterans suicides. Senators Daniel Akaka and Patty Murray, said Dr. Ira Katz had withheld important information on the true suicide risk factor among veterans. “Dr. Katz’s irresponsible actions ...
Finally they notice
2008-04-21 18:03:00 Via upyernoz at Rubber Hose the New York Times has finally figured out what many of us have been saying for months - the US and the Iranians are on the same side in Iraq.U.S. and Iran Find Common Ground in Iraq?s Shiite Conflict BAGHDAD ? In the Iraqi government?s fight to subdue the Shiite militia of Moktada al-Sadr in the southern city of Basra, perhaps nothing reveals the complexities of the Iraq conflict more starkly than this: Iran and the United States find themselves on the same side.The causes of this convergence boil down to the logic of self-interest, although it is logic in a place where even the most basic reasoning refuses to go in a straight line. In essence, though, the calculation by the United States is that it must back the government it helped to create and take the steps needed to protect American troops and civilian officials.Iranian motivations appear to hinge on the possibility that Mr. Sadr?s political and military followers could gain power in provincial ele...
Bush Administration Appealing Visitor Logs
2008-04-21 18:00:00 By- Suzie-Q @ 9:00 AM MST White House challenges release of visitor logs MATT APUZZO | April 21, 2008 07:23 AM EST | WASHINGTON ? The Bush administration is challenging a court ruling that White House visitor logs are public documents, saying releasing the records would infringe on the separation of powers. White House documents are normally exempt ...
By: Suzie-Q
Nota bene
2008-04-21 14:16:00 Got hot links if you want ‘em! Nobody took off George Stephanopoulous and Charles Gibson’s heads and handed them to them better than Will Bunch at Attytood. But, in an interview, he also asked Barack Obama, if elected, whether he would prosecute the Bush administration after it’s out of office. “Obama sent a clear signal that — unlike impeachment,” he writes, “which he’s ruled out and which now seems a practical impossibility — he is at the least open to the possibility of investigating potential high crimes in the Bush.” Bill Ayers responded to the furor George Stephanapoulos incited over his history — or lack thereof — with Obama. “I’m sometimes asked if I regret anything I did to oppose the war in Viet Nam, and I say ‘no, I don’t regret anything I did to try to stop the slaughter of millions of human beings by my own government.’ . . . This is then elided: he has no regrets for s...
Retiring pol + unused campaign cash = power, access, influence
2008-04-20 21:50:00 On Jan. 1, Federal Election Commission records show, Rep. Thomas M. Reynolds (R-N.Y.) had $862,809.75 in his campaign operation, Reynolds For Congress. From Jan. 1 to March 31, FEC records show, he raised $271,851.79. Allowing for spending by his campaign ($123,825.39), Rep. Reynolds finished the first quarter with $1,010,835.55. That’s a nice piece of change for a Republican incumbent to take on any challengers, eh? But on March 20, Rep. Reynolds became the 29th Republican in the 110th Congress to announce his or her intended departure (or actually leave) the House, saying: While there is always more to do, elected officials are only temporary stewards of the people?s trust. That?s why today I am announcing that I will not seek and be a candidate for reelection. [emphasis added] Now that Rep. Reynolds won’t be a steward of the public’s trust, what kind of a steward will he be of the million bucks of other people’s money tucked away in his campaign fund? Ac...
If the Democrats lose another presidential election, this time it won?t be
2008-04-18 15:25:00 Low-information voter indeed. In the previous two presidential election campaigns, Al Gore and John Kerry, starched at the collar to begin with, ran campaigns prudent to the point of pussyfooting. Both Democrats attempted to court the corporate interests that helped bring Bill Clinton success. Meanwhile, those who had sought to take it away, the religious right, were given a wide berth. By way of post mortems, alternative media and progressives have spent the years since heaping abuse and scorn on the Democrats for the timid campaigns they ran. Give the public some credit, went the refrain. Hew to the Democrat ideals which saw this country through a Depression and a world war. If you truly respect the Republicans, instead of appeasing them, emulate their rock-ribbed conviction. We haven’t heard much talk like this lately, have we? The current presidential campaign cycle kicked off with the likes of Dennis Kucinich, an unreconstructed leftist, and John Edwards, an advocate of ...
The Protect America Act
2008-04-18 06:17:00 Sorry I've been absent for a couple of days but I was called out of town unexpectedly. I missed the Mickey Mouse debate on the Disney Channel but Jazz covered that below. I missed the fact that the MSM still seems unwilling to report on the deteriorating situation in Iraq but then that's why they are called the cable tabloid networks. I didn't miss this however:'Bin Laden Determined To Strike In U.S.' Pt. 2or this:GAO Slams Bush on Terrorism - says Al Qaeda attack likely and we have no plan Yes we do indeed need a Protect America Act but it should consist of getting the Bush/Cheney cabal out of the White House as quickly as possible and making sure the Republicans become an insignificant and powerless minority. According to the GAO, while Bush and the neocons having been fighting their own personal demons in Iraq while the real demons are gaining strength and getting ready to attack.al Qaeda is now using the Pakistani safe haven to put the last element necessary to launch anoth...
Bush?s global heating proposal - responses and S&R analysis
2008-04-17 22:18:00 President Bush announced yesterday that his administration would address global heating. This basic fact has been covered, and re-covered, in media around the country and around the world. The general response appears to have been negative, with a widespread view internationally and from domestic environmental and progressive organizations that Bush’s proposals are a serious case of “too little, too late.” And U.S. conservative and libertarian groups consider Bush’s announcement to be little more than political appeasement. Today I’d like to dive a little deeper into Bush’s claims about his global heating record and his new proposal. But first, a small sampling of responses from around the world. “There is no way whatsoever that we can agree to what the US is proposing,” South African Environment and Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk said in a statement. (Source: AFP story) “President Bush’s global warming propos...
Fact or fiction: Should Bush administration be indicted for war crimes?
2008-04-16 11:33:00 From: 411 Politics Fact or Fiction 04.14.08: Week 85 4. This week, on Chris Matthew's show, in response to Matthews asking the question, "tell me something I don't know," blogger Andrew Sullivan of Atlantic.com said, "this man, these men [Bush and other high level administration officials] will be indicted for war crimes." Though we're not sure they will, this man, these men OUGHT to be tried for war crimes.Tom Head: FICTION. George W. Bush DESERVES to be indicted for war crimes, but I don't know whether he ought to be. We need to ask ourselves, first, who it is that would be doing the indicting. If it's a future Democratic administration, then it will be seen as a partisan attack writ large and will present no moral victory, even in the event of a conviction. If it's a future Republican administration, then independent counsel--which we do not currently have--would be necessary to ensure that the prosecution has any teeth. If it's an international human ...
By: Circle of 13
Obama Leaves Door Open to Investigating Bush Administration
2008-04-15 17:55:00 When the Democrats took control of Congress there was hope that the Bush administration would be held accountable for its actions. Impeachment was taken off the table and so far the committee investigations haven’t amounted to very much. Should a Democrat be elected in 2008 there is the possibility that the Justice Department could investigate ...
By: Liberal Values
Light Bulb Change and the Bush Administration
2008-04-15 12:49:00 How many members of the Bush administration does it take to change a light bulb?1. One to deny that a light bulb needs to be changed;2. One to attack the patriotism of anyone who says the light bulb needs to be changed;3. One to blame Clinton for burning out the light bulb;4. One to arrange the invasion of a country rumored to have a secret stockpile of light bulbs;5. One to give a billion dollar no-bid contract to Halliburton for the new light bulb;6. One to arrange a photograph of Bush, dressed as a janitor, standing on a step ladder under the banner: Light Bulb Change Accomplished;7. One administration insider to resign and write a book documenting in detail how Bush was literally in the dark;8. One to viciously smear #7;9. One surrogate to campaign on TV and at rallies on how George Bush has had a strong light-bulb-changing policy all along;10. And finally one to confuse Americans about the difference between screwing a light bulb and screwing the country.
By: Ha! Ha! Ha!
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