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It's Official. 61% of Nation's 'Liberal' Historians Rank Bush as "Worst President Ever"

The nation's liberal historians are no longer pulling any punches. From Scott Horton's No comment' column at Harper's, Previously Bush wasn't viewed in the most positive terms, but there was a consensus that he wasn't the "worst of the worst"...

Posted on April 7, 2008 6:00 AM

Bush: Another "Defining Moment in the History of a Free Iraq"

The US appears to being pulled deeper into the malestrom of Iraq, all the while our leader utters 'Polonius' sounding statements.. President Bush said Friday that 'the flare-up' in violence in oil-rich southern Iraq and parts of Baghdad presents "a...

Posted on March 29, 2008 9:40 AM

Iraq's New Wave of Violence. Another Sign of Progress in Iraq for Bush

While President Bush sees the latest attempted bloody crackdown of the Madhi army in Basra as "a bold decision of Prime MInister Maliki to go after the illegal groups in Basra (which) shows his (Maliki's) leadership and his commitment to...

Posted on March 27, 2008 7:40 PM

It's the Economy, Obama

Obama talks about how he'll do it instead of what he'll do! Clinton has the experience, and the specific plan. We need to invest in our futures. We need solutions. We need Clinton.

Posted on March 17, 2008 7:30 AM

Russia's New Leader, "Medveda - Whatever" Wins Tomorrow's Election with 72% of the Vote

Bush on Wednesday at a press conference, with Prime Minister Topolanek of the Czech Republic. "If some of these countries develop a weapon that's capable of developing a nuclear warhead, free nations, nations such as Russia, do not want to...

Posted on March 1, 2008 10:30 AM

Prince Bandar Threatened Britain with Another 7/7 if They did not Stop Bribes Probe

Not that one can be overly shocked that the man who is so close to George Bush he is almost family, would do this...Indeed, Prince Bandar whose uncle is Crown Prince Abdullah, has more access to Bush than some of...

Posted on February 15, 2008 5:30 PM

Bush Doublespeak. "Prosperity and Peace are in the Balance"

George Orwell did not actually coin the word 'doublespeak'. The word doublespeak was coined in the early 1950s. It is often incorrectly attributed to George Orwell and his dystopian, bleak novel 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'. The word actually never appears in that...

Posted on February 9, 2008 10:00 AM

Brad DeLong, Former Clinton Treasury Official: Bush Budget a Clown Show

Brad DeLong, professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Clinton Administration, who worked on the 93 budget has some scathing criticism of the proposed Bush budget. First as...

Posted on February 6, 2008 7:00 AM

Former GOP Senator Chafee: Senator Clinton Helped a Rogue President Start an Unnecssary War.

For all of Hillary's endless complaining about a "vast right-wing conspiracy", when it matters, she has often foolishly given it the benefit of the doubt in her brief career in elective office. The most glaring example was Senator Clinton's war...

Posted on January 31, 2008 12:30 PM

Bush's State of the Union Address Puts a Wedge Between Obama and Clinton

The State of the Union address, given last night by Bush (transcipt and video) was a fact checkers' dream turned into nightmare. There were so many distortions -scroll down. It had a slighty surreal aspect, highlighting the success of Iraqi...

Posted on January 29, 2008 9:30 AM

Bhutto Assassination. On Several Fronts Wouldn't it Have Been a Better Idea to Pick up Bin Laden?

Yesterday, President Bush in his 'usual one-size-fits-all' address, on Benazir Bhutto said that, The United States strongly condemns this cowardly act by murderous extremists who are trying to undermine Pakistan's democracy. We stand with the people of Pakistan in their...

Posted on December 28, 2007 1:00 PM

Benazir Bhutto Assassination. Rice Plan In Tatters

Everyone must have heard this news by now, which Lee alluded to, in the previous post. Benazir Bhutto killed in attack Benazir Bhutto had been addressing rallies in many parts of Pakistan. Pakistani former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has been...

Posted on December 27, 2007 2:00 PM

California Sues Over EPA Waiver

From Crooks and Liars. Usually, when someone applies for a waiver of some legislation, it's because they are unable to comply with the standards set. Not so when it comes to the EPA air quality standards and the state of...

Posted on December 24, 2007 2:30 PM

We don't Torture: Bush. It is one of the Perks of the Job.

Kevin Drum speculates what the two video tapes that the CIA destroyed, would have shown. First, from Spencer Ackerman's review of James Risen's 'State of War': Risen charges that Tenet caved to Bush entirely on the torture of al-Qaeda detainees....

Posted on December 8, 2007 4:00 PM

Russians Told: Vote for Putin's Party ... or Else

If ever a person has been fooled it is Bush, and how he has been so easily led down 'the rose garden path' by Putin, aided by the soothing and cooing words of the insufferable Condi Rice...Her specialty, apart from...

Posted on December 2, 2007 8:00 PM

Climate Change, if we don't sort out Deforestation, we can Forget Changing the Lightbulbs

Last week, Jay Tea over at wizbang classic had a post titled Common-Sense Environmentalism. The shorthand being that we should make some common-sense adaptations to our life, as the world's largest consumers, so long as it doesn't harm our pocketbooks...

Posted on November 28, 2007 4:25 PM

The Bush Touch: His Effect on Foreign Friends Continues to be Frightening

"I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but by God, they frighten me." A remark attributed to the Duke of Wellington about his officers during the Napoleonic campaign, may be a good description of Bush,...

Posted on November 26, 2007 10:00 AM

Bush and GOP Fiddle, While The UN Climate Panel Warns of Global Climate Disaster

Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, describing climate change as "the defining challenge of our age," released the final report of a United Nations panel on climate change here in Valencia, Spain), Saturday and called on the United States and China to...

Posted on November 17, 2007 4:35 PM

US Aid to Pakistan is in Largely Untraceable Cash Transfers

The President finally got around to talking to Musharraf yesterday. At his press conference in answer to the question, "Mr. President, you came down so hard on Burma and other nations for their crackdowns on pro-democracy demonstrators. Yet you seem...

Posted on November 8, 2007 6:00 PM

Musharraf, Bush's Ally Against Terrorism, or Against the Rule of Law?

President Bush, for prizing his closeness to his important ally on the war on terror, still hadn't gotten around to calling Musharraf (in so far as I know). In his last public words about the 'coup' on Monday afternoon, Bush...

Posted on November 6, 2007 3:30 PM

Bush Acting Head of the Consumer Product Safety Commision Accepts Free Corporate Trips but not an Increase in Budget to Pay for Them

Thursday, Nancy Nord, acting head of the Consumer Product Safety Commission told the Senate Commerce Committee she didn't like and didn't need its Consumer Product Safety Commission Reform Act of 2007 that would more than double the agency's budget over...

Posted on November 4, 2007 12:20 PM

'Curveball', The Amazing but True Story of the Con-Man Who Caused a War

For those who still believe that the 'neo cons', in the Bush/Cheney administration, have a shred of objectivity or responsibility to their constitutional oaths', not to deceive the nation as to the reasons for going to war, a new book...

Posted on November 3, 2007 8:00 PM

State Department's Townhall Democracy 'in the Face' of Bush's Freedom Agenda

Karen Hughes announced her resignation yesterday. For over two years she epitomized George Bush's 'innocents abroad' public relations stategy for the Middle East, with the expected zero results. Think Progress continues: President Bush had asked Karen Hughes to go to...

Posted on November 1, 2007 5:30 PM

Iran Needs 3-8 Years to Produce a Nuclear Bomb: ElBaradei, Director of IAEA

"Iran would need another three to eight years to make a nuclear bomb, the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said in an interview published on Monday, warning against any rush to use force to curb its nuclear ambitions." Mohamed...

Posted on October 23, 2007 11:45 AM

America's Protected Rogue Company, Blackwater Runs Amok in Iraq

Yesterday, President Bush gave his sanctimonious 'phonetic' address to the UN General Assembly about 'the universality of human rights where the ''mission of the United Nations requires liberating people from tyranny and violence'' and provides a challenge to the free...

Posted on September 26, 2007 6:00 PM

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