Recently in George W. Bush Category

Is it me, or has the cast of characters really changed in the GOP at the convention this year?  Also, what about the subjects that have been the keystones of Republican focus for over a decade?  Listening to the speeches last night, I was more struck by what is not being said and who is not present rather than who is there and what is being said. Who's missing?  Only former president George W. Bush,...

The  Washington Post has some poll numbers that sadly confirm what I've suspected for some time was the case. All the weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth from Democrats when Bush and Cheney were running the Constitution and the Bill of Rights through the paper shredder had nothing to do with those rights and liberties being taken away, it was all about the party affiliation of the president who was doing the taking:"The survey...

Ari Fleischer, press secretary to GWB who led the message war that took us into Iraq, has confirmed that he was hired by the Susan B. Comen Foundation to recruit a senior vice president of government relations, the position now filled by anti-choice zealot, Karen Handel.  Fleischer, well known conservative pundit, is believed to have been involved in Komen's strategy to defund Planned Parenthood by reverse engineering a new rule to single out the women's...

I'm sorry for the people who died on 9/11.I'm sorry we were told to shop after 9/11 and that many of us chose to consume beyond our means.I'm sorry that some of the financial firms in Manhattan chose to cheat people and to rip people off.I'm sorry we sometimes used 9/11 to scapegoat Muslims and torture people.I'm sorry we used 9/11 to start wars based on lies, kill civilians, and then treat our veterans like crap.We had choices to make about how we would honor the...

Those who have been watching have seen it in action for decades, but only recently has the real threat to America and it's way of life begun to be made clear to everyday folks who are just trying to live their lives and don't normally watch politics.  This threat has grown organically over the years, fueled by secret money from shadowy groups pumping tens of millions of dollars into a singular effort to undermine representative...

From an editorial in the St. Petersburg Times, May 21, 2006:"[T]he changes that George W. Bush has made to our nation's constitutional firmament may not depart with the first family's bags. His disregard for the separation of powers has so dramatically distorted the office of the president that he may have engineered a turning point in American history....Bush has taught tomorrow's leaders that, if there are no consequences for ignoring legal constraints on power and...

How is it that we have the money to attack Libya?Each Tomahawk missile we have launched on Libya cost $569,000 in 1999 dollars.Then there are all the costs of fuel and manpower and whatever else involved.As of 3:37 PM EST, Sunday, March 20 , the U.S and Britain had launched a total of 124 Tomahawks in Libya.Britain has a big austerity program going on.---Still, the U.K. also found the resources for war.How much will this all cost...

Last night in Preston Hollow:                                                                                                                                 Damn, Dick. Can't you just ring the bell like everybody else?...

Paging Dr. Mengele, Dr. Josef Mengele.Truthout has a report taken from Department of Defense documents showing that detainees at Guantanamo were given massive doses of an anti-malarial drug which was known to have serious psychological side effects before they had even been tested for malaria, and in spite of the non-existence of malaria in Cuba:"The Defense Department forced all "war on terror" detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison to take a high dosage of a...

The reviews are starting to come in on former President Bush's newly-released work of fiction entitled Decision Points. According to British and German officials, our 43rd president's recollections appear to, hold on to your seats, fall a little short on the truth-o-meter. From the Guardian:"British officials said today there was no evidence to support claims by George Bush, the former US president, that information extracted by "waterboarding" saved British lives by foiling attacks on Heathrow...