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Echoes Of Dubya From John W. McBush
2008-09-06 00:30:00 Believe it or not, there?s still more from Michael Morrill at Keystone Progress that I didn?t get to previously?Like McCain, Bush Promised Bipartisanship1999: Bush Bragged He "Worked Closely With Both Parties." At a speech given to the Latin Business Association Luncheon, George W. Bush said, "This reform movement also requires a different mindset in politics. Education is too important to have a strategy of divide and conquer. Unless parents and principals, teachers and academics, Republicans and Democrats can find common purposes, reform will fail. I have worked closely with both parties in my state, because I know that if we set out to score partisan points, we will never solve problems. If we do not share credit for progress, all of us deserve the blame for failure." ["No Child Left Behind" speech, via Project Vote Smart, 9/2/99, emphasis added]2008: McCain Bragged About Working "With Members Of Both Parties." In his acceptance speech at the Republican Convention, McCain said, "...
More On Dubya And Our Military
2008-09-05 21:08:00 CNN tells us here that Dubya is ?considering? 8,000 troop cuts (? ? shouldn?t that be ?a cut of 8,000 troops??) in Iraq (gee, how nice of President Highest Disapproval Rating In Gallup Poll History to ?consider? that, huh, seeing as how the majority of this country has wanted our people out of Iraq for ? oh, gee, I don?t know - FOREVER???).However, The Almighty Petraeus tells us here that no cuts could take place before 2009.I report, you decide, my friends.
Dubya Kisses Off The G8
2008-07-10 16:22:00 Thus sayeth President Highest Disapproval Rating In Gallup Poll History as he recently departed from a gathering of world leaders (here)??I wish for a world free from tyranny: the tyranny of hunger, disease and free from tyrannical governments,? the president wrote. ?I wish for a world in which the universal desire for liberty is realized. I wish for the advance of new technologies that will improve the human condition and protect our environment. I wish God?s blessings on all. George W. Bush.?193 days and counting, people?
More Hot Air From Dubya On Global Warming
2008-07-07 16:48:00 This Yahoo News story tells us that President Highest Disapproval Rating In Gallup Poll History is poised once more to muff an opportunity on the climate crisis (and I love the way "constructive" is in quotes here)?"Yeah, I'll be constructive," Bush told a joint news conference after meeting Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda on the eve of the G8 summit in the northern mountain resort of Toyako.I sincerely hope that our next president will not answer a reporters? question with ?yeah,? in a manner as if he had been interrupted from trying to buy prophylactics inside a public rest room."I also am realistic enough to tell you that if China and India don't share the same aspiration that we're not going to solve the problem," Bush said.God, I am so sick of this numbskull blaming India and China for the climate crisis while our planet continues to melt! Besides, as the story tells us later?Some 190 nations including the United States agreed in December in Bali to reach a deal on a po...
A Summer Dubya "Two Minutes Hate"
2008-07-02 21:18:00 President Highest Disapproval Rating In Gallup Poll History tells us from the White House web site today that?Next week I'm going to travel to Japan for the eighth and final G8 summit of my presidency.?As I said the other day, we need people who not only make promises, but write checks, for the sake of human rights and human dignity, and for the sake of peace."This link from March 2003 tells us of our POW mistreatment in Iraq (3rd) as well as the laughable inclusion of some nations in the "Coalition Of The Willing" (remember them?); this from May of that years tells of how we shielded human rights abusers; this notes the response from our allies to the revelations of torture at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo in March 2005 (no word of anyone protesting the claim of former Judge Advocate General (JAG) Kyndra Miller Rotunda that Gitmo is ?really more like a Boy Scout camp than a prison camp? here, by the way); and this notes our own human rights violations in Iraq from May of 2005.You may ...
?Dubya The Dud? Becomes ?Dubya The Stud??
2008-07-02 18:00:00 This Think Progress post tells us that, with many of the economic stimulus checks in the hands of loyal Americans doing their best for the economy, guess which industry has seen an immediate benefit?If you said porn, then you?ve automatically entered yourself in the drawing for free passes to the Bunny Ranch in Las Vegas!(just kidding?)An independent market-research firm, AIMRCo (Adult Internet Market Research Company), has discovered that many websites focused on adult or erotic material have experienced an upswing in sales in the recent weeks since checks have appeared in millions of Americans? mailboxes across the country.According to Kirk Mishkin, Head Research Consultant for AIMRCo, ?Many of the sites we surveyed have reported 20-30% growth in membership rates since mid-May when the checks were first sent out, and typically the summer is a slow period for this market.?And can you say ?irony,? given the fact that this administration once set out to bust the ?adult entertainment?...
Dubya is here
2008-06-15 15:19:00 BBC says, "Protesters greet Bush's UK visit"I welcome this much maligned president; a much better man than his predecessor.
By: Christian Quoter
President “Surge” Dubya Bush Cites History To Demonstrate How H
2008-06-09 07:32:00 Just Call Him General George Armstrong Custer “Honest Abe Bush” President “Surge” Dubya Bush is already patting himself on the back for the end results he envisions due to his reliance upon [ahem... "faulty"] to send our troops to war in one of the biggest “OOPS!” situations in modern world history. “It’ll be a Utopia!”, he claims. “Democracy will be established in the Middle East and everybody’s going to look back upon MY administration a few hundred years from now and I’ll be a jenn-you-wine “cult hero”, he insists. No scrutiny for his direct involvement in hundreds of THOUSANDS of dead, innocent, peace-loving Iraqi citizens due to his huge miscalculations. No scrutiny for the tens of THOUSANDS of maimed or dead American troops. President “Surge” Dubya Bush is vain enough to envision himself and his HUGELY flawed, “criminal” even (according to many) presidency in the p...
Time For The "Duce/Dubya Duet"
2008-05-27 23:48:00 I recently came across a copy of Time Magazine?s 100 Most Influential People issue from earlier this month, and of course, the magazine is obliged to include President Highest Disapproval Rating In Gallup Poll History in the list.For anyone unfamiliar with the concept (maybe one or two people), a peer, fan, or someone highly familiar with that individual writes a brief tribute in the magazine (I have a feeling I?ll be coming back to this issue of the magazine, since there are a couple of other inclusions worthy of commentary).And the author of Dubya?s little paean was none other than Italy?s third-time PM, Silvio Berlusconi; his writeup appears next to a photo of Incurious George in which he, quite appropriately, is largely in the dark.Uh oh, Silvio tells us?George W. Bush, 61, will be remembered as Commander in Chief, but not only for that. He was above all a President who felt the moral obligation that the leading nation of the free world must carry. My thoughts return again to th...
Dubya Moves The Goalposts Again
2008-05-19 23:07:00 Sheryl Gay Stolberg reported the following in the New York Times yesterday (from here)??when Mr. Bush arrived in this Red Sea resort city on Saturday, he seemed cozy with the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas; the two ended a quick photo opportunity by strolling down a stone walkway, holding hands. And the president was also back to making predictions. Previewing a speech planned for Sunday, he said, ?I?ll make it clear that I believe we can get a state? ? as in, a Palestinian state ? ?defined by the end of my presidency.??Defined by the end of my presidency??? Gee, that sounds a lot less strident than ?a Mideast deal by the end of my term,? doesn?t it (as noted here)?OK, so what exactly is involved in ?defining a Palestinian state,? Dubya (to be fair, though, he does use the ?defined? language in the MSNBC story as well as Stolberg?s account). Since our corporate media cousins aren?t going to ask you, then I guess it?s up to me to do so.Does it include the right...
A Quick Note On The Latest Dubya Idiocy
2008-05-15 17:05:00 A recent utterance from President Clueless (from here)?"Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along," the President said to the country's legislative body, "We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: 'Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided.' We have an obligation to call this what it is ?- the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history."The response from Obama (as always, more like this)?"It is sad that President Bush would use a speech to the Knesset on the 6Oth anniversary of Israel's independence to launch a false political attack. It is time to turn the page on eight years of policies that have strengthened Iran and failed to secure America or our ally Israel. Instead of tough talk and no action, we need to do what Kenne...
Dubya Discovers Good Government?
2008-05-15 00:24:00 (Completely tongue-in-cheek headline; don?t worry.)As I?ve noted in the past, one of the advantages (if you can call it that) of reading the Bucks County Courier Times is that you?re alerted to the very latest in wingnuttia, and the paper didn?t disappoint again recently, republishing this column from Cokie and Steve Roberts.And isn?t it such a shame ? boo hoo! ? that Dubya is sooo unhappy that ?his proposals have died on Capitol Hill?? I?m sure ?no one could have predicted? how that would happen with this hanging around the neck of Incurious George like the proverbial millstone.Well, in response, Dubya said to Cokie darling that he has found a new foe ? the gerrymander (cue scary incidental theme music; du-du-duuuh!)?Too many congressional districts, he said, are drawn to guarantee safe seats for one party or the other. So for many lawmakers, their only real threat comes from their "flank," from a primary challenger who accuses them of ideological impurity. As a result, they respon...
I less-than 3 George Dubya
2008-04-30 17:39:00 Yay for retardastic economic 'stimulus' packages! I got mine today. So, hey. I have an Idea, let's give the American people a few bucks so that they can spend it as a diversion to the fact that they're spending too much. Or better yet, since most of the...(read more)
By: Wooties!
Schooling Dubya On Student Loans
2008-04-28 17:37:00 President George W. Milhous Bush says here that…"Congress needs to pass legislation that would give my administration greater authority to buy federal student loans," Bush said. "By doing so, we can ensure that lenders will continue to participate in the guaranteed loan program and ensure that students continue to have access to tuition assistance."I think that statement gives us the order of Dubya’s true priorities here, by the way, namely that lenders come first and students second (and as you'll see, Dubya typically misses the boat when it comes to "guaranteed" loans).Interesting, isn’t it, how our “don’t know much about nothin’ at all” leader (apologies to Sam Cooke) has now become a cheerleader of sorts for students to receive affordable aid for advanced education.As this Village Voice article from January 2006 tells us, though, that was not always the case. Here’s a brief history: President Clinton tried to end the federally guaranteed student loan program in ...
Dubya Plays "Pope-A-Dope"
2008-04-17 00:48:00 From here?WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pope Benedict, making only the second visit by a pontiff to the White House, on Wednesday urged Americans and their leaders to base social and political decisions on moral principles to create a more just society.I agree, and it would have been nice if His Holiness had bothered to tell his host that you cannot have such a society when you deprive funding on behalf of those in need in favor of never-ending war, as noted here.
Has McCain Overdosed on “Dubya Vision?”
2008-04-14 10:22:00 by Tom Chartier and Elizabeth Gyllensvard Two terms of gloriously delusional leadership are poised come to an end next January. What will we do without our old toga chum Dubya? He’s a tough act to follow. Who can possibly replace the worst US president in history? At one thing Americans do excel: picking lousy presidents. James Bryce writing in 1888 observed: “the ordinary American voter does not object to mediocrity. He has a lower conception of the qualities requisite to make a statesman than those who direct public opinion in Europe have.” Yeah that’s it! Senator Mediocre Buffoon for President! If Americans could clone, we could resurrect a real stinker. We’d have so many to choose from. However, I have no fear that quality will taint the White House anytime in the foreseeable future. Bush’s replacement… as if anyone could replace The Decider… may just be as deranged and confused! That’s right, you guessed right. The secret word for tonight is: “Amnesia!” The Mo...
Dubya Approved Meetings On Tummy Rubs, Sleep Deprivation, And Removal Of Te
2008-04-12 14:00:00 Oh, the humanity! To think that the President would actually approve of meetings that discussed just how to deal with Islamic terrorists who were part of a group that had recently destroyed the World Trade Center, damaged the Pentagon, and killed 2,996 of our friends and neighbors. (Washington Post) President Bush said Friday that he was ...
By: Pirate's Cove
Classic Dubya: exposing the terrorism?tax cut linkage
2008-03-27 00:00:00 From a speech George W. Bush delivered in October 2001: I strongly believe we need to make sure that consumer confidence stays high, by giving people more of their own money back. (Applause.) We need to counter the shock wave...
Dubya?s Final ?FU? To The CPB
2008-03-19 16:49:00 Eric Boehlert of Media Matters for America tells us a few things in this post; one is that President George W. Milhous Bush just presented, in his last budget, the largest cut ever proposed to public broadcasting (timed, coincidentally, before the presentation of ?Bush?s War? on ?Frontline? to coincide with today?s fifth anniversary), and Boehlert also tells us that Dubya received a little help in the anti-PBS propaganda department recently from Charles McGrath of the New York Times here (the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is in charge of PBS, by the way).I thought that Boehlert might have been a little harsh, so I went back and read McGrath?s original Times commentary called ?Is PBS Still Necessary.? And after doing so, I still think Boehlert erred slightly, but only because he may have been too kind.As Boehlert states, McGrath argues that public television may be obsolete (an opinion I contest greatly), though McGrath curiously defends public radio. And in attacking public TV...
The Mess That Dubya Made?
2008-03-05 22:25:00 Is it fair to blame the White House for our country?s economic woes? I mean, just how much influence does the President of the United States wield over the economy? I had always thought that their influence was extremely limited in scope. Whether this belief is right or wrong, I do know ...
By: Boom2Bust.com
Snatching Foot From The Jaws Of Dubya?
2008-03-04 20:15:00 By- Suzie-Q @ 12:15 PM MST Bush incoherently praises Odierno for ?snatching defeat.? March 3, 2008 7:00 pm Today, President Bush thanked Lt. Gen. Ray Odierno, who until recently served as the No. 2 commander in Iraq, for his service in Iraq. In attempting to apply the phrase ?snatching defeat from the jaws of victory,? Bush ...
By: Suzie-Q
End of an era: Dubya?s White House visits (Yahoo! Sports)
2008-02-28 14:29:00 When we look back at George W. Bush’s tenure as President, I think it’s likely the brightest spot will be the… Read the full story.
By: MLB News Blog
Dubya Versus The U.N., Again
2008-02-22 20:09:00 I think Max Bergmann at Democracy Arsenal is being a bit too kind to President George W. Milhous Bush here when he touts Dubya?s record for fighting HIV/AIDS and malaria in Africa (a related post appears here, as well as this news story). However, Bergmann does note that the preznit, in typical bait-and-switch fashion, has cut funding for U.N. peacekeeping efforts?According to White House figures quietly released this week, more than $193 million for U.N. troops would be cut for missions in Liberia, Rwanda, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cote d'Ivoire and elsewhere....Most people don?t realize that the UN has the highest number of troops deployed abroad than anyone else besides the U.S. The UN has 90,000 peacekeeping troops deployed around the world in 17 different missions in some of the most dangerous hot spots, including Kosovo, Congo, East Timor, Haiti, and Lebanon. While the favorite conservative talking point is that UN missions are ineffective, because of the failu...
Dubya Sure Knows About ?Spirits,? Doesn?t He?
2008-02-08 21:57:00 So President George W. Milhous Bush visited Lafayette, Tennessee as noted here to ?raise the spirits? of area residents hardest hit from tornadoes that swept across that state, Arkansas, Mississippi, Kentucky and Alabama on Tuesday (as noted here).And when it comes to trying to correct past mistakes?White House spokesman Scott Stanzel said the government has learned many lessons since Katrina, and is much better now at not only answering locals' needs in times of emergency, but anticipating them. FEMA assets were in the tornado-struck region as early as Tuesday night, he said.?States and localities have also given a lot of thought to the issue over the years and have improved their response as well,? he said.Well, that?s positive, but allow me to live up to my name again and dash all of this happy talk with the following bit of bad news, courtesy of Dubya?s utterly awful (and fortunately, last) proposed budget?The Proposed Elimination and Reduction of Key Programs in the President?...
Note To Dubya On The '08 SOTU: STFU
2008-01-29 18:29:00 Actually, I really should thank George W. Milhous Bush because, for almost each year of this abomination of a presidency at this time, he provides all kinds of blogging material for your humble narrator and various other like-minded miscreants who do this for a profit motive or out of masochistic impulses (I of course am in the latter category).And last night was no exception of course; I?m linking here to the text of the speech from the White House web site because that way you can note each time Our Dear Leader received applause from those in attendance (of course, there?s no way you can quantify who it was who applauded, how strenuously or for how long, or whether or not at times it was just from Deadeye Dick, Dubya's family and select other suckups, but such is life). And this includes his snarky BS about how the IRS ?accepts both checks and money orders,? forever harping about tax cuts (ha ha, laugh it up, funny boy ? your approval ratings will remain in the toilet until you a...
Huckabee Would Pardon Kenneth Copeland at See Ya Dubya
2008-01-29 06:02:00 Mike Huckabee has had a long standing relationship with billionaire televangelist (and Huckabee supporter) Kenneth Copeland. Huckabee appeared on Copeland's show last fall. He not only encouraged people to support Copeland's dubious ministry, he announced that if given the opportunity he would stop the investigation into Cope6 Zoom(s)
Dear Dubya: It’s The Hour of the Desert Wolf
2008-01-22 13:06:00 by Tom Chartier with Elizabeth Gyllensvard Dear Dubya, I hear you’ve celebrated Spring Break early with a trip to the Holy Land. You lucky devil. How was the trip? Were you treated with the courtesy merited by a man of your stature? Oh I hope so. No one wants to be on your No Fly List. Miffed by shoddy protocol, you might just launch another war or a bloated federal bureaucracy. Speaking of good manners, when one is visiting, one always brings a gift to one’s host. There are those having difficulty making the connection between your “free gifts” of armaments (to the tune of $30 billion to Israel and $20 billion for the House of Saud), and the stated peaceful purpose of your trip. Sillies. What else would a self-proclaimed War President give to his hosts at a Peace Mission? You did make it clear that America is committed to the Road Map to Peace between Israel and the occupied territories… oops, I mean the Future Palestinian State. Indubitably, your thought...
Today's "Dubya Moment"
2008-01-12 17:45:00 From this post I found on the web site of the Baltimore Sun yesterday, concerning the visit of George W. Milhous Bush to the Middle East...BETHLEHEM, West Bank ? After descending the stone stairs to the dim grotto beneath the Church of the Nativity, President Bush lit a candle Thursday and stood in silent, somber reflection at the place where Jesus Christ is believed to have been born.Emerging a short while later into the sunlit courtyard outside, he described the experience as "a moving moment for me. ... For those of us who practice the Christian faith, there's really no more holy site than the place where our Savior was born."From this post by Chris Kelly at HuffPo yesterday..."War on the one hand is such a terrible, such an atrocious thing, that no man, especially no Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of beginning it." - TolstoyAnd don't worry; even though Coulter would never return the favor and Kelly's post is funny, I won't take a shot at her as she...
Somewhere Dubya Is Loved At Last
2008-01-10 20:04:00 Yes, we all know that George W. Milhous Bush is currently in the Middle East playing president and pretending to care about negotiating peace between Israel and Palestine (even predicting a peace treaty by the time he is FINALLY out of office), but I?d just like to take a moment and contrast this frantic, last-minute scramble by a highly unpopular head of state with the more methodical approach of a president who actually knew what he was doing on this vital issue (aided in a huge way by Anwar Al Sadat of Egypt, who ultimately died because of his recognition of Israel).As this Wikipedia article about the Camp David Accords tells us?(Former President Jimmy) Carter also wasted no time in visiting the heads-of-state on whom he would have to rely to make any peace agreement feasible. By the end of his first year in office, he had already met with (Sadat), King Hussein of Jordan, Hafez al-Assad of Syria, and Yitzhak Rabin of Israel. Carter's and (Secretary of State Cyrus) Vance's explo...
Prescott Bush - Dubya?s Grandpappy - funded Nazis.
2008-01-09 22:15:00 Here is a story about it. And here is a video about bankers in the US and the UK funding Nazis. The video does not mention Bush though. Cheney is probably on the board of directors of the company that owns the History Channel. :/ You would think this would be front page news on every newspaper ...
Who will replace Dubya?
2008-01-09 18:59:00 I thought that The Amazing Race Asia Season 2 would be the most exciting thing I’d catch on television these days, but I find the US presidential presidential primaries more thrilling. That’s odd because I’m not even an American citizen. What kept me hooked to CNN is the battle for the democratic nomination. ... [ This is a content summary only. Visit PinoyBlogoSphere.com for full links, other content, and more! ]
Dubya "Decides" To Run For Cover
2007-12-14 22:52:00 In today?s New York Times, Sheryl Gay Stolberg does some more ?by the numbers? reporting on Dubya ?win(ning) on energy, children?s health and spending bills,? a claim I won?t contest because of the appalling failure of the Democratic leadership to stand up to George W. Milhous Bush.However, I will defend Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid somewhat for this?Mr. Bush likes to say his relations with Democrats are cordial. Just last week, he played host to members of Congress at the White House?s annual black-tie Christmas ball.But munching on crab cakes and sipping spiced eggnog are not the same thing as hashing out policy, something Mr. Bush, who prefers delegating over details, is loath to do. At a ceremony in the Capitol for the Dalai Lama last month, Ms. Pelosi, the House speaker, and Mr. Reid, the Senate Democratic leader, buttonholed Mr. Bush and asked to meet to discuss their differences on children?s health.He told them their aides should talk to his health secretary instead.??Bush do...
Seasons Greetings From Dubya, Kids
2007-12-13 04:50:00 I'm so glad President Numbskull is "off the sauce." Only someone drunk would veto SCHIP for a second time.Oh, wait...
Another quality gaffe from Dubya
2007-12-11 08:09:00 Repetition in politics can get boring (Cox is thinking particularly of "education, education, education" or "tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime") but somethings that never get old are Dubya's verbal gaffes.In a televised address he gave out the wrong help line number so that home owners expecting to get through to a call centre providing adivce on higer interest rates instead found themselves getting through to Freedom Christian Academy in Texas.Adding stupidity to embarassment the President repeated the incorrect number, 1-800-995-HOPE, twice instead of 1-888-995-HOPE which left left callers hoping for a miracle (which they probably enquired about when the school answered).Those eager for more entertainment on the Dubya front can visit: http://www.dubyaspeak.com/
By: Cox says
Dubya Writes A Letter
2007-12-06 20:18:00 (This would not be news for any other president, of course...).In response to the story about our chief executive finally deciding to contact a head of state he doesn?t like after seven years in office, I should note that I have tracked down the contents of Dubya?s correspondence, as follows...Dure Kim John ill,I hop yure r gun to bide bi tha gree ment to disabul yure nukuler pro graam be four I leve off iss in Januery uf two thousan ann nine. I haaf to du suum thin too haf uh legucy lik mah daddy diid when he wus presedent.Sinceerely,Goerge W. BushP.S. Jus? jokin? aah bout tha ?little pigmy? and ?asses of eveil? there?hee heee.And he?s finally going to The Middle East also? Ya? think, on some level, George W. Milhous Bush is starting to get the hang of this whole ?president? thing?Naaahh.
G. Dubya MuggShot
2007-11-30 20:33:00 NYC library goes postal with FBI Most Wanted phony mugshots of George W and Deadeye Dick Cheney. MyFox NYCNBC hot anchorbabe Erin Burnett offers Dubya a receptacle for his banana after calling him a "monkey." YouTube video Burnett blamed "jet lag" for her verbal projectile vomiting. Fox Business Network's sexy tarts with skirts so short you can see Cleveland cause Dow Jones economics expert to collapse and die minutes after his FBN appearance. FBN
By: Chickaboomer
Tell Dubya How The Choo Choo Goes
2007-11-28 21:33:00 (Possibly the most infantile blog post title I?ve ever come up with, but I?m trying to communicate in a way that could be easily understood by George W. Milhous Bush.)So our preznit is going to act now, thus ?forestalling a possible strike by Amtrak workers on Saturday,? is he (as noted here)? Wow, talk about being proactive! I mean, this is only Wednesday; he could have waited two more days at the most?(Yes, that was snark.)The Inquirer story also notes?The labor dispute centers on health-care contributions, proposed changes in work rules, and back pay to Jan. 1, 2000, when the last contract ended.Amtrak has about 15,000 unionized workers in its workforce of 18,500. About half of the union workers are represented by the nine unions affected by the current impasse. They include train dispatchers, track repairmen, signal operators, machinists, electricians and coach cleaners.A strike, which would be the first by Amtrak workers, would also disrupt commuter railroads, including SEPTA a...
Dubya Part of the Plame Cover-up?
2007-11-26 17:08:00 AlterNet The latest piece of evidence was the statement from former White House press secretary Scott McClellan that Bush was one of five senior officials who had him clear Karl Rove and I. Lewis Libby in the leak when, in fact, they were two of the leakers. "The most powerful leader in the world had called upon me to speak on his behalf and help restore the credibility he lost amid the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq," McClellan said in a snippet released by the publisher of his upcoming memoir. "So I stood at the White House briefing room podium in front of the glare of the klieg lights for the better part of two weeks and publicly exonerated two of the senior-most aides in the White House: Karl Rove and Scooter Libby," McClellan said. "There was one problem. It was not true." After McClellan's statement touched off a brief furor on the Internet and cable TV shows, his publisher Peter Osnos tried to soften the blow. Osnos told Bloomberg News that McClellan...
Does Dubya Fart? Presidential Wind Series...
2007-11-21 06:53:00 Scene – In the KitchenLaura Bush in green room getting ready to go on. Boozing, smoking, maybe some dip. Drunk. Tearing off sheets of her own tp.L – How do I look? Goddamn, whose genius idear wuz this? I need another drink. You know I hate these things. Whad are dey going wanna to talk about. [high voice] Oh Laura this. Oh Laura that. What’s my favorite book? Do I miss teaching? Jesus Christ. Hurry up with that drink boy. I sure as hell ain’t going out there dry.W – [rushes over with another drink] Here you go Mrs. Bush. Please try to relax. Do you want another xanax?L – [mimicking] No I don’t want another xanax. But you tell that producer I want an ashtray out there. I’m sick of hiding it. I’m one smoking broad!W – I really don’t think…. The President was very specific…L – Shut it. [pause]L – You think I could drop a button or two on this blouse? [starts to fumble with buttons]W – [mildly alarmed] No, no Mrs. Bush. I recomme...
By: NO Exit...
Dubya Hates America's Freedoms
2007-11-15 21:59:00 More Doublethink Dubya from AlterNet George W likes to claim that global terrorists are out to attack America because "They hate our freedoms." But we're learning that it's really the Bushites themselves who hate America's freedoms. Retired Army Col. Ann Wright and one of America's leading peace activists, Medea Benjamin, have recently felt the bullying hate of the Bush regime. Both women have been very vigorous practitioners of our freedom to speak out and assemble in opposition to government policies, using these freedoms to protest the war in Iraq. They've put themselves on the line and been willing to undergo several arrests for their nonviolent civil disobedience. This is as American as the 4th of July. Yet Wright, Benjamin, and civil libertarians everywhere were stunned to learn last August that Bush's FBI has suddenly turned this misdemeanor into a weapon of political intimidation, using it to bar the two women from traveling to Canada... and perhaps to other nations...
50 of the Dumbest Things Dubya Uttered
2007-11-11 22:41:00 50. "I promise you I will listen to what has been said here, even though I wasn't here." -at the President's Economic Forum in Waco, Texas, Aug. 13, 200249. "We spent a lot of time talking about Africa, as we should. Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease." -Gothenburg, Sweden, June 14, 200148. "You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test." -Townsend, Tenn., Feb. 21, 200147. "I am here to make an announcement that this Thursday, ticket counters and airplanes will fly out of Ronald Reagan Airport." --Washington, D.C., Oct. 3, 200146. "Tribal sovereignty means that; it's sovereign. I mean, you're a -- you've been given sovereignty, and you're viewed as a sovereign entity. And therefore the relationship between the federal government and tribes is one between sovereign entities." --Washington, D.C., Aug. 6, 2004 (Watch video clip)45. "I couldn't imagine somebody like Osama bin Laden understanding the joy of Hanukkah." --at a Whi...
Dubya The Bakery Boy Screws Workers Again
2007-11-02 20:53:00 Here?s a bit of a history lesson.Remember last July, when our preznit went to Nashville to visit the Bun Company run by a lady named Cordelia Harrington, serving as yet another photo-op where he could lambaste Democrats for supposed fiscal mismanagement, a typically delusional accusation (here, throwing in some of his patented stupid ?humor? that would play well with the ?Hee Haw? crowd but probably just about with no one else)?Well, it turns out that Harrington?s Bun Company had signed outsourcing agreements with O?Charley?s the week before (O?Charley?s states here on its Form 10-Q quarterly report that it is ?a leading casual dining restaurant company headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee?).I?d like to comment on the typical gall of President Stupid Head to try and score political points at the expense of employees of the Bun Company who may lose their jobs unfortunately, but that?s not really my point here (though it could be).The reason why I?m mentioning this now is because of ...
Dubya Can't Hyde From This Choice
2007-10-30 23:48:00 (Pic TBD - Blogger's photo upload is hosed for now...also, probably no posting tomorrow.)This tells us that Dubya announced this year?s recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and some of the names are truly illustrious indeed. They include Brian Lamb of C-SPAN, the novelist Harper Lee who wrote ?To Kill A Mockingbird? (a fave), NAACAP former Executive Director Benjamin Hooks, economist and 1992 Nobel Prize winner Gary Becker, and Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute.And Henry Hyde.Yes, you read that correctly?Henry Hyde.As in ?the House-leader-of-the-Clinton-imp-eachment-circus Henry Hyde, the adulterer-who-involved-himself--in-a-four-year-affair-with-a-ma-rried-woman-from-1965-to-1969-a-nd-ultimately-wrecked-her-marri-age Henry Hyde? (dismissing it as a ?youthful indiscretion??see how casually he strolls away from the train wreck he created).Yes, THAT Henry Hyde, ladies and gentlemen.I know he served our country in World War II, but apart ...
Dubya Is All Wet, Again
2007-10-29 22:50:00 As we know, President Photo Op made a bee line to California last week to get in the way of the fire prevention effort, and in his quest to somehow make himself and FEMA look competent on this occasion, as opposed to their horrific ineptitude that is, to date, the enduring legacy of Hurricane Katrina, he said the following (from this story on Saturday)?Yet the president drew the contrast on Thursday in California when, appearing with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, he said, ?It makes a significant difference when you have somebody in the Statehouse willing to take the lead.? The remark was widely viewed as a veiled swipe at Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, a Louisiana Democrat, who says she resents it.Another typical cheap shot from President Brainless; yes, there were failures on all levels of government when Katrina hit, but a life form with a speck of humility would know that and thus realize the best thing to do is to shut his pie hole.And so, if Dumbya has sounded off,...
If you like Dubya you'll love Rudy
2007-10-13 15:59:00 Over at Antiwar.com Justin Raimondo talks about Rudy Giuliani and the "dingbat wing" of the neoconservative movement that makes up the core of his advisers in:Rudy's Radicals If ever there was an archetypal anti-libertarian, a politician whose views exemplify all the very worst aspects of the authoritarian personality, then that man is Rudy Giuliani, who infamously intoned:"We look upon authority too often and focus over and over again, for 30 or 40 or 50 years, as if there is something wrong with authority. We see only the oppressive side of authority. Maybe it comes out of our history and our background. What we don't see is that freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do."This quote just about sums up his almost cartoonish ability to embody the values and rhetorical sty...
Ready For Your Close-Up, Dubya?
2007-10-03 21:34:00 Much like a trained seal trying to balance a beach ball on its nose in lieu of not knowing what else to do, our now-and-forever red state president open up his demagogic playbook again in a speech where he took another shot at ?Hollywood values.?And I guess that?s a funny remark for people such as Robert Duvall, Ron Silver, Kelsey Grammer and Cicely Tyson, among other actors who supported Dubya in ?04.It?s really not worth my time to list all of the problems facing our nation and the world once more, and it really isn?t worth your time either for me to make you read about what you already know. It?s just sooo depressing to watch Incurious George continually try to present himself as an adult in a job for which he has continually been overmatched, imagining ?issues? handed to him straight from the Republican National Committee while everything else disintegrates around him, and he remains oblivious.I?ll tell you what then, Dubya, as long as you think we should take you seriously; her...
More AP Steno Time On Dubya vs. The Budget
2007-09-25 22:03:00 It is to laugh (from here)?WASHINGTON ? President Bush is spoiling for a veto battle with Democrats over spending bills, but Congress has done such a poor job completing its budget work that the showdown could be weeks away.(And as you can see, the headline reads that Congress ?dawdles? on the budget, hence the holdup?sure.)Memo to Andrew Taylor of the AP ? try reading this from last month (particularly this excerpt). Maybe you?ll find a clue?This battle centers around the rather conciliatory budget the new Democratic majority put together. They would nearly meet the president's request for enormous increases in defense and homeland security spending and propose small increases in social spending.But the president has chosen confrontation. He says he will veto all spending bills that exceed his requests and an expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), while opposing improvements in the federal student loan program?all in the name of restraining government...
Your Dubya News
2007-09-20 21:21:00 In a news conference today, President Bush was asked whether or not North Korea has been helping Syria with a nuclear program. His response was:
Love Ya Long Time Dubya
2007-09-16 15:59:00 Jonathon Yeo obviously has strong opinions about Dubya. If you look at the details, you will see why. Very clever. You can legitimately say Bush is an Asshole or rather more accurately (lots of them).Well spotted Nicolas Gruen from Club Troppo.
It?s 9-11, WHERE?S DUBYA?
2007-09-12 07:55:00 NINE-ELEVEN. No, not 2007, we’re refering to the original September 11, 2001, “attack on America.” If you recall, that’s what happened a month after Dubya and Condi were specifically warned that a major terrorist action would soon take place in the USA, driven by Al Qaeda operatives fighting the USA/UK military control of the Middle ... |
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