Recently in George W. Bush Category

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...

Bear with me here as I use a tired sports analogy to describe the Obama presidency. The George W. Bush presidency could be easily paralleled by the Matt Millen era with the Detroit Lions. NFL insiders were literally laughing at most of Millen's moves as the Lions have enjoyed a decade of dubious performances. Recent drafts have improved the team since he has been gone, but it will be a long road back. The no...

MSNBC is showing video of US troops leaving Iraq, heading for the Kuwait border.  The Army's 4th Stryker Bridage Combat Team is escorting the last 14,000 combat troops out of Iraq.  It's a good step, in my opinion, but the US government is still leaving behind 50,000 "advisors" which is disconcertingly reminiscent of the Viet Nam exit strategy.  If they are truly used for training and support, all the better, but this shameful chapter of...

Robert Shapiro at Sonecon via Ezra Klein at the Washington Post (emphasis added): "From December 2007 to July 2009 - the last year of the Bush second term and the first six months of the Obama presidency, before his policies could affect the economy - private sector employment crashed from 115,574,000 jobs to 107,778,000 jobs. Employment continued to fall, however, for the next six months, reaching a low of 107,107,000 jobs in December of 2009....