“Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.”

23Sep08

Over at Matthew Yglesias’s blog you can read all about how Bush lobbied the Iraqi government to delay the withdrawal date to help John McCain.
Hey, nothing wrong with getting U.S. soldiers killed to help your political allies right? OK, it’s possibly the despicable thing the Bush administration has ever done, and that’s saying something. [...]

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Tags: George Bush, Iraq, John McCain, Maliki

Curtailed Travel Plans for the Bush Team

23Jun08

Here’s Matthew Ygelsias on the prospect of foreign prosecutions of Bush administration figures.
Scott Horton has an interesting article in The New Republic about the likelihood that Bush administration figures will face indictment abroad for war crimes and thus, as Larry Wilkerson put it, “Haynes, Feith, Yoo, Bybee, Gonzales and–at the apex–Addington, should never travel [...]

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Tags: Bush War Crimes, George Bush

Bush, McCain, Lockstep

18May08

Charles Krauthammer on Inside Washington just now (paraphrased since I couldn’t record the show)
Congressional Republicans need to run from Bush, run towards McCain, and pray.
What they should pray for he left unsaid. Here’s a suggestion Pray running towards McCain doesn’t turn out to be the same thing as running towards Bush
Indeed later in the [...]

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Tags: Barack Obama, Bush McCain Lockstep, Bush=McCain, George Bush, John McCain, Lockstep

Write Your Congressperson Y’all !!!

08Apr08

Here in the cruel, snarky world of blogs you hear a lot of complaining about the political system and the prospects for change. Well here’s an issue where there are some real prospects for positive change in the immediate future.
The Jubilee Act (HR 2634) was recently passed in the House Financial Services Committee and [...]

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Tags: Debt Relief, George Bush, Global Debt, Jubilee Debt Network, Jubilee USA

Don’t Misunderestimate the Anti-War Movement

20Mar08

Here is Matthew Yglesias discussing a Washington Post editorial earlier today.
Today’s Washington Post editorial on Iraq dedicated to slamming Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton is really baffling. Their big point is that Democratic plans to withdraw troops from Iraq are somehow unrealistic or based on “fantasy” which seems to simply miss the contours of the [...]

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Tags: Foreign Policy, George Bush, Iraq, Iraq War, Iraq Withdrawal, Matthew Yglesias

Other Then That Mrs. Lincoln How Was the Play?

03Mar08

This from the website for the Brooking Institution. “A Reality Check on African Aid” by Homi Kraras. It’s does a good job putting Bush’s Africa policy in context.
President Bush’s trip to Africa has rightfully been welcomed in the region. Under his administration, U.S. economic assistance has more than doubled and has been targeted, [...]

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Tags: African Aid, AIDS in Africa, Brookings Institution, George Bush, Homi Kraras, Iraq War

Steriods Free Global Hegemony

14Feb08

So you might of have seen this article about one of Brian McNamee’s lawyer predicting saying that Bush will pardon Roger Clemens. Here is a excerpt
One of Brian McNamee’s lawyers predicted Roger Clemens will be pardoned by President Bush, saying some Republicans treated his client harshly because of the pitcher’s friendship with the Bush [...]

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Tags: Brian McNamee, Bush Family, Evil, Evil Doing, George Bush, Pardon, Roger Clemens

Incentives For Crazy Talk

04Jan08

Matthew Yglesias had this say about McCain recent “100 Years of War” quote earlier today (See below for Video)
George W. Bush, I think most people can agree, has a tendency toward the cavalier and irresponsible. Liberal critics such as myself also tend to view his strategy in Iraq as aimed at a perpetual occupation of [...]

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Tags: George Bush, Iraq, Iraq War, John McCain

You!

05Nov07

Are responsible for Iraq!!!!
Or so the goons that run Foreign Affairs Magazine would have us believe.

This headline reminds me of the this old Onion piece, Osama Bin Laden Found Inside Each of US. I gather from a brief read through that this yet another article talking about how nobody has to sacrifice or something. Think [...]

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Tags: Foreign Policy, Foreign Policy Magazine, George Bush, Iraq

If You Like Awful Presidents

30Oct07

You’ll love Rudy Giuliani or so says David Greenberg. Greenberg apparently writing both a Washpost opinion piece and a Democratic National Committee fund raising letter, tells us all about how conservative and like Bush Giuliani really is when you stop to think about it. The subtitle visible from the Washpost.com homepage this afternoon read:
“Talk of [...]

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Tags: David Greenberg, George Bush, Rudy Giuliani, Washington Post

Dalai Lama Get’s Some Congressional Bling

16Oct07

So the Dalai Lama gets to add a Congressional gold medal to his list of international awards. According to the rightwing the Nobel Prize is politically tainted, so this gives him some conservative street credibility. (Totally what he needs) The Post tells us China is upset that the U.S. has suddenly decided the Dalai Lama [...]

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Tags: China, Dalai Lama, George Bush, Neo-Conservative, Nobel Prize, Tibet

Why Aren’t More Reporters Thrown Out of the White House?

13Oct07

BT3 brings us a story about WTOP reporter Mark Plotkin getting tossed from the White House.
Some quick background:
the event was to honor the Ballou Senior High School Marching Band, which is the subject of an awesome documentary from what I hear.
The crime was asking Laura Bush a question about D.C. voting rights.
“Mrs. Bush, [...]

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Tags: Adrian Fenty, Ballou, D.C. voting rights, George Bush, Laura Bush