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Does Bush think the Secretary of Defense is an appeaser?

Thursday, May 15, 2008 12:57 PM
Yesterday, President Bush delivered a speech in Israel in which he called "appeasers" anyone who advocates talks with Iran. He even drew an explicit parallel to 1930's-era Nazi appeasers : "Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with terrorists
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The slow implosion of the GOP

Wednesday, May 14, 2008 9:34 PM
The Republican Party seems to be ensnared in a slow-motion downward spiral of late. Party unity on Capitol Hill has all but evaporated, the rank and file are disassociating themselves from the White House like rats from a sinking ship, and the prospects
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The kangaroo courts begin to collapse

Tuesday, May 13, 2008 9:30 PM
The sham "trials" of detainees at Guantanamo have always been legally and Constitutionally invalid, but they were continuing anyway. Now, the process of these show trials has met some blowback from within the Pentagon (in contrast to civilian trials,
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The numbers speak

Monday, May 12, 2008 10:41 PM
The numbers speak for themselves : Eighty-two percent of Americans now say the country's seriously off on the wrong track, up 10 points in the last year to a point from its record high in polls since 1973. And 31 percent approve of Bush's job performance
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Another Yoo torture memo

Thursday, May 08, 2008 11:40 PM
In August 2002, John Yoo wrote an infamous memo on behalf of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel which attempted to justify the use of torture by the CIA. The memo has since been released ( PDF here ), widely circulated, and then disavowed
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Veto bait

Wednesday, May 07, 2008 10:27 PM
The pending House appropriations bill that would provide "emergency" funding for the continued occupation of Iraq is certain to draw a veto from the White House (and how much longer is this five-year-old occupation going to be falsely labeled an "emergency"
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Sanchez speaks

Monday, May 05, 2008 8:52 PM
From a new memoir by Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, former commander of US forces in Iraq : Hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars were unnecessarily spent, and worse yet, too many of our most precious military resource, our American soldiers, were unnecessarily
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Bush spins ethanol, lies about ANWR

Saturday, May 03, 2008 11:20 PM
Following a speech in Missouri yesterday, President Bush engaged in an exceedingly rare question-and-answer session with employees of the company where he was speaking. Among other topics, he repeated his threadbare spin of ethanol as a viable fuel source
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McCain's Pander Bus stops in New Orleans, lies to the Lower 9th

Thursday, April 24, 2008 11:14 PM
John McCain's "Pander To Anyone I Can Think Of" tour has made a particularly shameless stop in New Orleans. In the still-devastated Lower Ninth Ward, the poorest and most heavily damaged area of the city, McCain had the gall to say this : "Never again
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Bizarre story of FBI abusing its power

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 10:04 PM
The FBI has always had the ability to obtain evidence through subpoenas issued by judges. In a case tangentially related to the 2005 London bombings, an FBI agent lawfully obtained a subpoena for the seizure of certain records from a suspect at North
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Quote of the day (on Iraq)

Sunday, April 13, 2008 7:13 PM
The quote of the day comes from today's NYT editorial : We believe that the fight against Al Qaeda is the central battle for this generation, but Mr. Bush’s claim that Iraq is the main front is wrong. That is Afghanistan, and the United States is in real
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Petraeus shills for Bush again

Tuesday, April 08, 2008 10:19 PM
General David Petraeus gave one of his patented dog-and-pony shows before the Senate Armed Services Committee today, in which he suggested that the administration's failed strategy in Iraq should be given even more time to continue failing : Telling Congress
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Tactical foot-dragging by the Bush gang

Saturday, March 29, 2008 8:15 PM
Two stories from yesterday illustrate the Bush administration's use of foot-dragging as a tactical maneuver in their war against the proper role of government. First, the EPA is refusing to comply in a timely manner with a Supreme Court decision from
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Cheney insults the American public and the troops

Monday, March 24, 2008 8:38 PM
Today marks twice in one week Dick Cheney has insulted the American people, and now he's been brazen enough to insult the troops he and Bush have placed in harm's way. The outrage began last week , when Cheney was faced with this question: RADDATZ: Let
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On the fifth anniversary of a dark stain

Wednesday, March 19, 2008 10:53 PM
Five years ago, the majority of the American public believed Bush's portfolio of lies used to justify the invasion of Iraq. Five years and 4,000 dead American soldiers later, the lies remain unpunished and the occupation continues to be a disaster. Hans
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Pentagon buries report showing no links between Saddam and al Qaeda

Thursday, March 13, 2008 10:09 PM
Up until yesterday, the Pentagon planned to release a landmark survey of over 600,000 seized Iraqi documents that showed conclusively there was no connection between al Qaeda and the regime of Saddam Hussein. At the last minute, the Pentagon decided to
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"Baby Doc" Bush vetos bill banning waterboarding

Saturday, March 08, 2008 6:32 PM
George "Baby Doc" Bush vetoed a bill today that would have banned the CIA from torturing people using waterboarding. The bill would have required the CIA and other government agencies to abide by the interrogation guidelines set forth in the US Army Field
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Is it irony, or is it karma?

Thursday, March 06, 2008 9:42 PM
I'll bet Dick Cheney's head is about to explode : Iraq and China are close to re-signing a $1.2 billion oil deal that was called off after the 2003 U.S. invasion, an Iraqi Oil Ministry official said Thursday. [...] Saddam Hussein's government signed a
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Some clarity on GOP scare tactics

Tuesday, February 26, 2008 10:20 PM
Senators Jay Rockefeller and Patrick Leahy and Congressmen Silvestre Reyes and John Conyers have an op-ed piece in tomorrow's Christian Science Monitor that calls out the White House on its fear-mongering tactics regarding warrantless surveillance : Our
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Fun with numbers

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 8:42 PM
Two statistics appeared today that look startling side-by-side: 1) Obama's lead over Clinton nationwide has grown to 14 percentage points. 2) Bush's approval rating stands at a jaw-dropping 19 percent. If these trends continue, Obama's lead over Clinton
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