August 28, 2007 – 10:05 am
From Salon.com’s The waning power of the War Myth: “For Bush, Vietnam’s real relevance to Iraq isn’t the early withdrawal issue — it’s the ’stab in the back.’ The ’stab in the back’ holds that America was only defeated in Vietnam because we lost the will to fight. And those who sapped our will, those [...]
August 27, 2007 – 12:17 pm
From the Associated Press’ Vermont only state Bush hasn’t visited as president: “Vermont has [the] noteworthy distinction [of being] the only state President Bush hasn’t visited as president. For the nation’s 43rd commander in chief, the clock is ticking. He has 17 months left to squeeze in a visit to the bluest of blue states.”
August 16, 2007 – 11:15 am
From the Atlantic’s article, The Rove Presidency: “Rove has always cast himself not merely as a campaign manager but as someone with a mind for policy and for history’s deeper currents—as someone, in other words, with the wherewithal not just to exploit the political landscape but to reshape it. At the Christian Science Monitor lunch, [...]
Check out Bush’s latest speech on Iraq. The person bringing it to you took “the liberty of highlighting the important bits.” It’s kind of scary.
From Just What the Founders Feared: An Imperial President Goes to War: “Members of Congress should not be intimidated into thinking that they are overstepping their constitutional bounds. If the founders were looking on now, it is not Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi who would strike them as out of line, but George W. Bush, [...]
From The world after George W. Bush: “To cope with the strategic situation Bush will be leaving, his successor will have to disavow the false assumptions underlying many of his policies.”
From Why Bush Will Be A Winner: “I suppose I’ll merely expose myself to harmless ridicule if I make the following assertion: George W. Bush’s presidency will probably be a successful one.” [Bill Kristol shows, once again, why he's an idiot.]
From Group raises money to fly pro-impeachment banner at All-Star Game: “Online activists raised enough money in two hours Monday afternoon to fly a banner encouraging the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney over AT&T Park in San Francisco before Tuesdays baseball All Star Game.”
From The Bushites Have Outsourced Our Government to Their Pals: “The sprawling $43 billion homeland security department is known for being in charge of America’s color-coded terrorist-threat alarm system, a sham that obscures HSD’s real mission: to serve as a giant federal cookie jar for corporate America.” [Hat tip to Alex for the link].
The video edition!
Greg Pallast and Robert F. Kennedy Explain The Attorney Scandal: It’s not about the attorneys. It’s about the elections (see this interview with Pallast as well).
Bird Poops On Bush During Press-Conference: No comment.
Olberman’s ‘Special Comment’ on the Democrats’ Iraq Compromise: “The Democratic leadership has, in sum, claimed a compromise with the Administration, in [...]
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