Greedy Old Party

"I never thought that the GOP posed a threat to the well-being of our nation. But these days, I no longer recognize my old party.' Anonymous

John Dean has written another book about this administration. If an eyewitness to the Nixon administration who is appalled by this gang, I am terrified.

We all should be.

Impeach Cheney First!

Immoral Administration

"Now, why should Mr. Bush fear that insuring uninsured children would lead to a further “federalization” of health care, even though nothing like that is actually in either the Senate plan or the House plan? It’s not because he thinks the plans wouldn’t work. It’s because he’s afraid that they would. That is, he fears that voters, having seen how the government can help children, would ask why it can’t do the same for adults.

And there you have the core of Mr. Bush’s philosophy. He wants the public to believe that government is always the problem, never the solution. But it’s hard to convince people that government is always bad when they see it doing good things. So his philosophy says that the government must be prevented from solving problems, even if it can. In fact, the more good a proposed government program would do, the more fiercely it must be opposed."

Government is not bad. Mismanaged government resources is bad. If this were a publicaly held company, the entire top tier of this administration would have been fired or in incarcerated.

Lonely road to Nowhere

"Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, detects "a sense of fatalism" at the White House.

"I think President Bush has reached a point where he perceives he doesn't have options other than what he is doing -- a course has been put in place and you have to see the course through," Jamieson said. "If people get locked down psychologically, it makes it possible for them to think that they are doing something heroic, even in the face of public criticism."

Sunday Brunch

Chew on this find by Suburban Guerrilla while you eat your Sunday Brunch. She does consistent great work. While you're there donate what you can....

Who is the crack in Bush's team?

"One has to wonder, of course, what public opinion would have been if the first cabinet official to lose it — just a bit — had been not the stoic bureaucrat Gates but instead our female secretary of state. Had it been Rice up on that podium, and were she constitutionally capable of that degree of non-Bush-centered feeling, would she have been denounced? Would she have been belittled, punished politically, dismissed as too irrational and emotional — too girly — to deal with the ugly realities of war?

We’ll never know, because she — like all powerful women in politics — will never let us find out. They can’t afford to. Not unless much more of official Washington decides it’s man enough to truly feel our nation’s inner disarray."

How dare Ms. Warner? After she gave this administration the liberal venue to lie us into war, now she has the temerity to discuss the lack of compassion.

How dare the Times continue to give this woman space. I'm sure Faux News would be happy to give her air time.

Ms Warner should rendezvous with her criminal boyfriend Scooter Libby and write trashy novels and leave the reporting to an actual reporter.

Codependency in the White House

"Now Iraq is a bloody quagmire, Afghanistan is deteriorating and the Bush administration’s own National Intelligence Estimate admits, in effect, that thanks to Mr. Bush’s poor leadership America is losing the struggle with Al Qaeda. Yet Mr. Bush remains confident.

Sorry, but that’s not reassuring; it’s terrifying. It doesn’t demonstrate Mr. Bush’s strength of character; it shows that he has lost touch with reality.

Actually, it’s not clear that he ever was in touch with reality. I wrote about the Bush administration’s “infallibility complex,” its inability to admit mistakes or face up to real problems it didn’t want to deal with, in June 2002. Around the same time Ron Suskind, the investigative journalist, had a conversation with a senior Bush adviser who mocked the “reality-based community,” asserting that “when we act, we create our own reality.”

Surgeon General politically manhandled

"Dr. Carmona said he was ordered to mention President Bush three times on every page of his speeches. He also said he was asked to make speeches to support Republican political candidates and to attend political briefings."

Wouldn't swearing throughout a speech generally offend the audience?

Shrubs term has been a nightmare

The following nightmare has been brought to you by Neon Gods:

"My nightmare is that Cheney and Bush will not give up their office when their term is up in January 2009. In fact George Bush signed a little noticed Presidential Directive on May 10 that allows him to take control of the government in the event of a "catastrophic emergency." A catastrophic emergency is defined as "any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions." This definition is vaguely worded. What is an extraordinary level of "mass casualties, damage or disruption"? Notice the word "or" in the definition, it could be any one of the three. Who gets to decide whether a disaster meets this requirement? I assume it's the President. And what happens if he decides an event meets this requirement? According to the Directive, "The President shall lead the activities of the Federal Government for ensuring constitutional government."

In other words if the country suffers a catastrophe in late 2008, the President could invoke this Directive and take control of the government. Or he could avoid having to rely on chance and "manufacture" a catastrophe.

Granted, this is a stretch, and sounds very much like a paranoid conspiracy theory, but George Bush is no ordinary man. He appears to believe he is God's emissary on Earth, charged by God to rid the world of evil. I honestly believe George Bush and Dick Cheney are capable of finding a way to remain in power until they feel they have achieved their goal (which can never be achieved)."

Game, Set, Match

"We're ready for a new president," says a former state Republican Party official in the South."

The rest of the country is finally catching up to the dreaded left leaning progressives.

Shrub does what he feels like....

"People don’t change. Mr. Bush’s failure to have the courage of his own convictions was apparent early in his history, when he professed support for the Vietnam War yet kept himself out of harm’s way when he had the chance to serve in it. In the White House, he has often repeated the feckless pattern that he set back then and reaffirmed last week in his hide-and-seek bestowing of the Libby commutation."

Rich misses the point. 43 has always done what he feels like doing with assurance that Babs will make sure someone else cleans up his mess. This time, it will be at least two other administrations stuck cleaning up the debris of 43's latest misadventure.

How low will Shrub go?

The latest Newsweek poll.............

Lobster Summit

They lauded Condi Rice as a Russian expert. So what was accomplished during the Lobster Summit? Sounds like Putin looked into the soul of Bush and found nothing.

Putin is taking full advantage of Shrubs weakened position at home and globally.

Putin 1, Shrub 0

Elvis Sighting

Why people insist upon comparing Bush to any historical figure is a royal waste of time. For once in his useless life, he is in a league of his own.

I bet Bush can't find Albania on a Map

“I miss Albania!” W. wails. “They know how to treat a president there. Women were kissing me and men rubbed my hair. The crowd kept yelling, ‘Bushie!,’ and they almost grabbed the watch right off my wrist trying to get at me.”

Rich: The Cheney Branch of Government, Who Knew?

The average person suffered through social studies/history class. Unfortunately, some teachers fail to present the information in an interesting way. While you were nodding off in class, you did not sleep through the addition of the another branch of government, the Cheney Branch.

Cheney has decided, I suppose with the Decider, that he is not a part of any existing part of the infastructure that our founding fathers established.

Can you imagine what Nixon or Hitler would have done with a mastermind such as Cheney in their administrations?

End of an Era

If Blair would have made better choices, he would still be employed.

Presidential Scholars send message to POTUS

I suppose the First Lady read the note to Shrub. There is hope for our future.

Cheney destroyed the envelope

"The irony with the Cheney crowd pushing the envelope on presidential power is that the president has now ended up with lesser powers than he would have had if they had made less extravagant, monarchical claims," said Bruce Fein, an associate deputy attorney general under President Ronald Reagan."

The world is a more dangerous place because Cheney was empowered by a very lazy man.

Albania hearts Shrub

"Mr Bush's visit to ex-Communist Albania was in contrast to his reception in Italy, where thousands of protesters turned out. In Albania people wore top hats designed to look like the US flag and cheered him to the rooftops, commemorative stamps were issued and a street in front of Parliament in Tirana was renamed in Mr Bush's honour.

Albania backed the US-led invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan and wants to join both Nato and the EU. Mr Bush praised Albania as a country that has "cast off the shackles of a very oppressive society and is now showing the world what's possible". He added: "I love to come to countries that are working hard to establish the institutions necessary for a democracy to survive."


To travel so far for a little love..........

30 months for Libby

The judge surprised everyone by giving Libby more than the time recommended by the prosecution. More telling was Shrub's "what a shame"n response. It seems to me that Shrub will not pardon Libby.