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Out with the old...

Monday, 19 January 2009 9:15 P GMT-05
There's so much I could say on the eve of the day we have all been waiting for.  Most of it, I probably have said .  Tonight, though, I think this says it all : Cheney in wheelchair with pulled back muscle 1 hour ago WASHINGTON (AP

The NeoCon is dead

Thursday, 17 July 2008 5:42 A GMT-05
Despite Bush's favorite lollipop, the stimulus check , we here in the US are cutting back, saving more, and generally doing the very things we've been told to do all along--save our money, not buy frivolous crap, consume less, buy local, and

Wild firings

Friday, 26 October 2007 6:01 A GMT-05
Doing his Presidential duty, Bush flew to California to tour the rubble and to stage photo-ops of him with ordinary folks who just happen to have lost their homes.  Immediately upon landing he was accosted by reporters, whose very first question

Funding the puddle

Tuesday, 23 October 2007 5:54 A GMT-05
Recently Bush vetoed a bill to reauthorize and expand SCHIP by 35 billion dollars.  Among other things, he objected to the price tag.  This was par for the course for our President and no one was too surprised, but now we know why he thoug

Crazed Heads

Wednesday, 26 September 2007 6:01 A GMT-05
While Bush has been busy pronouncing random world leaders dead and then claiming, even more bizarrely, that it was Saddam Hussein's fault (Saddam caused global warming and AIDS!  Saddam Hussein caused Communism and Apartheid!  Saddam w

Out of the Horse's Mouth

Tuesday, 28 August 2007 5:29 A GMT-05
Can this not be the height of irony?While simultaneously praising his good buddy Alberto Gonzales and mourning his loss, George Bush said it's "sad that we live in a time when a talented and honorable person" is impeded "from doin

Surge on, good soldier

Wednesday, 22 August 2007 5:52 A GMT-05
We drove through Kennebunkport ME on our way home on Sunday, joking that we should stop by and visit our friends the Bushes .  We decided against it.  That's about as close to Bush as we ever want to come.  We're bored with Bus

Bye-Bye Bush

Thursday, 16 August 2007 5:49 A GMT-05
Hillary Clinton is surging ahead in her party's polls and she may just win the whole thing, especially since she just got a raving endorsement from Karl Rove .It's fascinating to hear this man speak as though his star wasn't waning , or h

The turd blossometh no more

Monday, 13 August 2007 10:04 A GMT-05
Can you believe it?  Can it be true?  Can the Empire really be crumbling ?Of course Rove claims his departure has nothing to do with the million scandals attributed to his name.   Right.  And Al Gore didn't win the election in

Tables Turned

Thursday, 2 August 2007 1:06 P GMT-05
Republicans managed to impeach a President over perjury about a subject with had nothing to do with being the President of the United States.  They managed to drag on the proceedings and the whole scandal for almost an entire year, dragging a c

Scooting Justice

Tuesday, 3 July 2007 5:32 A GMT-05
After his puppet courts got uppity and refused to save his fall guy Lewis "the Scoot Man" Libby, Bush had to take matters into his own hands.  After all, prison is stressful, especially on special celebrity types such as Paris Hilton a

Hate To Say We Told You So....

Thursday, 24 May 2007 9:19 A GMT-05
In case anyone forgot, we're still occupying Iraq.  Bush has had many reasons for why we went there, and even more reasons for why we're still there, but most recently he pulled out his terrorist card again and waved the name of Osama bi

Sticks and Stones

Tuesday, 22 May 2007 8:39 A GMT-05
On Saturday former President Carter called Bush's administration the "worst in history", echoing a large segment of the population's own view on King George's tenure.  Bush's administration, never able to handle critici

I say potato

Wednesday, 16 May 2007 7:54 A GMT-05
How can we agree on the best policy for our ongoing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan if we can't even agree on the correct spelling for the word "czar "?Given that our United States Czars have largely failed to accomplish whatever they

Powers of governance

Tuesday, 3 April 2007 6:03 A GMT-05
In a reassuring sign that the entire government has not been lost in the insanity of the right-wing religious conservative mindset, the Supreme Court knocked down the Bush Administration's ludicrous suggestion that the Environmental Protection A

The Chameleon who would be President

Tuesday, 20 March 2007 6:09 A GMT-05
Every utterance, every action, everything Bush does right now is just another nail in the coffin for the likes of John McCain, the Chameleon.

Decision makers

Wednesday, 31 January 2007 6:58 A GMT-05
US Commander Urges Lowered Expectations in Iraq. Lowered?? How low can you go? The majority of Americans want out of Iraq completely. To the Bush Administration, that's probably about as low as you can get. Conversely, if our

Sponge Fire

Thursday, 25 January 2007 6:48 A GMT-05
Cheney versus the Smoking Sponge

State of the Union

Wednesday, 24 January 2007 6:50 A GMT-05
After greeting the first woman speaker of the house and making a point of her gender like it was his idea to put her there in the first place (although he is certainly responsible for Nancy Pelosi's historic rise--he single handedly lost the midterm

State of the Decider

Monday, 22 January 2007 6:54 A GMT-05
As a general rule, I don't listen to Bush's speeches. I never could stand his voice, so I wait for the transcripts to come out and then I read those, hoping above hope that this time there will be some sense in them. So far, no dice.

The Bush begins to burn

Thursday, 18 January 2007 6:52 A GMT-05
Bush's home state sees bizarre weather due to that global climate change exacerbated El Nino, and all of a sudden he's thinking of changing his tune. Perhaps he's one of those Texans who's stubborness only extends to what he observes with his o

You say you want a revolution..

Monday, 15 January 2007 7:00 A GMT-05
Constitution? What Constitution?

More of the Same

Thursday, 11 January 2007 6:55 A GMT-05
The Decider has decided to Stay The Course. Is anyone really surprised?

King Bush Signs Another Law

Friday, 5 January 2007 6:42 A GMT-05
King Bush wants to search your mail, too.

Bush: Leader of the Minority

Thursday, 21 December 2006 6:52 A GMT-05
Despite a resounding defeat this past November, the Republican Moral Minority mindset is still unclear on some fairly fundamental aspects of the United States' principles and also incidentally the will of the people. Take for instance Bush (tak