We’ve had bits and pieces of information what the Bush Administration was up to back when they were in office, but only now that they’re gone and Obama is releasing some of the classified documents on it is the scale of it all becoming clear. I used to entertain the idea that the torture program . . . → Read More: Rachel Maddow on what we know now about Bush’s torture program.
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You’d think that with all the ranting I did about the Bush Administration over the past eight years that I’d be ecstatic that the nightmare is over and a historic new Presidency is about to begin. Rather than jumping for joy I am actually feeling rather apprehensive. I felt the same way during Bush’s first . . . → Read More: The Bush Administration has ended. The Obama Administration about to begin. For almost 41 years now I’ve been operating under the apparently mistaken assumption that if you break a law you’ve committed a crime, but according to the U.S. Attorney General, speaking recently on the abuses in the Department of Justice in hiring and firing decisions, I am apparently wrong in my assumption: In a speech . . . → Read More: Attorney General Mukasey has a new definition of the word “crime.” The Bush administration has taken the concept of cronyism to new heights and has largely gotten away with it. Political appointees at NASA and the EPA have interfered in the publication of scientific reports that the Administration wasn’t happy with (largely on climate change issues) and are accused of politicizing the Department of Justice. Things . . . → Read More: Report confirms politicization of the Justice Department. I remember a couple of years back, I think it was shortly after Bush won re-election, an old friend of mine challenged me to consider the possibility that President Bush just might be a good thing for this country and, more specifically, for me. Some of you may recall that as it occurred here in . . . → Read More: Bush’s Legacy: Record debt of $490 billion for the next President to fix. Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency Gotta love The Onion. Sent in by Mistermook. Here’s a news item that’ll boil your blood. Newly released documents reveal that our government, which claims it doesn’t torture, went to some length to hide detainees from the International Red Cross to avoid being called out for torture: “We may need to curb the harsher operations while ICRC is around. It is better . . . → Read More: If America doesn’t torture then why did we hide it from the Red Cross? Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan’s new tell-all book What Happened, about his time working in the Bush Administration, has created quite the shit storm over the past few days. The news media have been lapping up revelations such as this one on Bush’s real motivation for starting a war with Iraq: In Iraq, . . . → Read More: Scott McClellan’s new book has White House in an uproar. We’re spending trillions on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan so you’d think the least the government could do is tell us how that many is being spent. Alas it appears they largely haven’t a clue: The lack of accountability of the funds, intended for purchases of weapons, vehicles, construction equipment and security services, amounted . . . → Read More: Defense Department can’t account for $15 billion in tax payer money. I loves me some Keith Olbermann:
I’m beginning to think I may have to write in Olbermann’s name in the upcoming election for President. |
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