George W. Bush opened his Presidential Library yesterday and the timing could not have been better. Fresh on the heels of the first successful “terror” attack since 9-11, we were presented with what is likely the most expensive, lavish and Orwellian edifice to presidential revisionism this country has ever seen. This is just the beginning [...]
Tag Archives | George W Bush
We may be willing to forgive and forget…
By susaninrindge on February 7, 2011 in
Tags: Bush, George W Bush, human rights violations, Switzerland, torture
but human rights group are not… George Bush was to travel to Switzerland to give a speech at a Jewish charity gala but had to cancel: Bush was to be the keynote speaker at Keren Hayesod’s annual dinner on Feb. 12 in Geneva. But pressure has been building on the Swiss government to arrest him [...]
Spying!!! v. The Tedium of A Hundred Thousand Dead
By Dean Barker on November 29, 2010 in
Tags: Charlie Bass, George W Bush, Iraq, Judd Gregg, Wikileaks
Each succeeeding Wikileaks docudump leaves me “meh.” I think I finally know why. We lied about why we invaded a country, ending over a hundred thousand lives before their time, wounding many more, displacing more still. Our chief executive at the time goes on book tours. Senators like Judd Gregg leave the stage with full [...]
Social Security: Guinta to Take Up Where Bush Left Off
George W. Bush, perhaps the worst president in the history of the Republic, got reflective the other day: The former president said his greatest failure in office was not passing Social Security reform. It wasn’t “reform”; it was privatization. And I remember it as the tipping point that led to Bush’s dramatic decline in popularity. [...]
Things Are Changing
The red shows the increasing job loss suffered during George W Bush’s last year in office, the blue the decreasing job loss during Barack Obama’s first year. It would be great if it could improve at a faster rate, but it is improving, which it would not be under the administration we would have had [...]
Binnie: I Wouldn’t Vote for Bush, So I Did
From the Bill Binnie website: Binnie described himself in a November 2003 Chicago Tribune story as an independent who supported Bradley’s presidential run in 2000 and said he would not vote for George W. Bush and was leaning toward backing Democrat Wesley Clark in the upcoming presidential primary. Hold the phone! Binnie campaign manager Bryan [...]
“September the 11th Changed Everything”
Still burns me up to hear about pieces of Bush’s right-wing agenda that were enacted under the guise of the War on Terra. Paul O’Connor, president of the Metal Trades Council at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, was among the union members who gathered at the gates of the shipyard Friday to thank Shea-Porter and the [...]
George W. Bush Not Interested in the Anti-Marriage Haters
Oh dear. But really, we all knew Shrub’s religious right pander was basically a horse and pony show for votes: For a commencement address at Furman University in spring 2008, Ed Gillespie wanted to insert a few lines condemning gay marriage. Bush called the speech too “condemnatory” and said, “I’m not going to tell some [...]
Open Thread: Republican Party, Redefined
On every major measurement, the Census Bureau report shows that the country lost ground during Bush’s two terms. While Bush was in office, the median household income declined, poverty increased, childhood poverty increased even more, and the number of Americans without health insurance spiked. By contrast, the country’s condition improved on each of those measures [...]
Despicable, immoral, un-American homunculi…
By Dean Barker on August 24, 2009 in
Tags: 9/11, Dick Cheney, George W Bush, terror alerts, Tom Ridge
…who ruled the executive branch of power in the country I love dearly for eight years of my life. NYT, August, 2004 (h/t Glenzilla): Speaking to factory workers and invited supporters at a lawn and garden equipment manufacturer in Lee’s Summit, Mo., Mr. Cheney lashed out at those who have implied that the terror alerts [...]