George W. Bush
The Obama-Cheney Administration?
Dick Cheney will be out of office in a month. But when it comes to presidential powers, he’s probably going to be with us for a long, long time. If you don’t believe it, just ask him. He’ll tell you.
December 15, 2008 | Read More
The Real Other Shoe Dropping In Iraq
A couple of airborne loafers didn’t stop Bush from walking all over the Constitution. Again.
December 15, 2008 | Read More
Subprime Thinking
So-called “aggressive lobbying” from the banking industry kept our government from cracking down on crazy mortgages.
December 1, 2008 | Read More
Who Says Lame Ducks Don’t Quack?
Billions of people around the world might be celebrating George W. Bush’s imminent departure from office. But his one-way flight back to Crawford is still a few months off–and he’s making the most of his waning time on Pennsylvania Avenue.
November 19, 2008 | Read More
Bush Sticks It To Congress Again
It turns out the Bush administration slipped an extra $146 billion dollar gift to their friends in the banking industry into the bailout bill. What? You think our lawmakers actually read the laws they vote on?
November 10, 2008 | Read More
Graphing Failure: The Last Eight Years
Take a moment - if you can stomach it - to briefly revisit the last eight years. What a long, strange trip it’s been.
November 4, 2008 | Read More
Alaskan King, Crabby
Alaska’s been in the news a lot lately thanks to Sarah Palin. But the “Pitbull with Lipstick” V.P. candidate has overshadowed another big Alaska story: the ongoing corruption trial of senate lifer Ted Stevens.
October 2, 2008 | Read More
Bailing Out - Too Little Too Late
We need less CYA and more TBC in Congress
About the only good thing you can say about the bailout debacle of the past week is at least it was a bipartisan failure. Two thirds of House Republicans and more than a third of Democrats rejected the $700 billion bill. But the fact that lawmakers from both sides of the aisle spit the bit and defied their party leaderships does not mean they did the right thing, or that 228 habitually spineless politicians all magically evolved backbones over the course of one weekend. As the AP pointed out, many of the…
September 30, 2008 | Read More
Stop Nation Building
The same nerve that drives us to declare embargoes and sanctions against other countries has led us into the dangerous game of nation building. We stormed the sovereign country of Panama in 1989 to topple our former friend, and CIA informant, Manuel Noriega. We sent troops to Haiti a few years later. Then we dropped thousands of bombs on Serbia to punish its leader.
As a candidate in 2000, then-governor George W. Bush pledged not to engage in this activity. We all know how well he kept that promise.
What deity granted us permission to meddle with the regimes of other countries?…
August 28, 2008 | Read More
Reason #97: Iraq Veterans - Out in the Cold
Politicians and government blowhards love to crow about supporting our troops. But it appears that this “support” only applies as long as the troops are fighting and dying overseas. When it comes to effectively treating and rehabilitating soldiers and veterans here at home, our government agencies could not be a greater disgrace. The scandals erupting in 2005 over deplorable conditions at the Walter Reed Medical Center were just the tip of the iceberg.
George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Don Rumsfeld took us into Iraq thinking they could run this war on the cheap, and one area where they skimped the…
August 28, 2008 | Read More
