Category: Politics

It lays out all the administrations lies in a very powerful way

Courtesy of Crooks And Liars blog

Frank Rich’s op-ed piece “Falluja Floods the Superdome” in yesterday’s New York Times is spot-on

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/04/opinion/04rich.html?pagewanted=1&th&emc=th

Maureen Dowd’s Op-ed “United States Of Shame” in Friday’s New York Times had this little gem:

Ron Fournier of The Associated Press reported that the Army Corps of Engineers asked for $105 million for hurricane and flood programs in New Orleans last year. The White House carved it to about $40 million. But President Bush and Congress agreed to a $286.4 billion pork-filled highway bill with 6,000 pet projects, including a $231 million bridge for a small, uninhabited Alaskan island.

Bob Herbert is pissed off, closer to the way I feel. His op-ed today had this excellent sentiment:

Mr. Bush flew south on Friday and proved (as if more proof were needed) that he didn’t get it. Instead of urgently focusing on the people who were stranded, hungry, sick and dying, he engaged in small talk, reminiscing at one point about the days when he used to party in New Orleans, and mentioning that Trent Lott had lost one of his houses but that it would be replaced with “a fantastic house – and I’m looking forward to sitting on the porch.

Congrats you uncaring bastard
From The Daily Pick

On August 19th, George W Bush broke the record for all-time most vacation days while President, beating Ronald Reagan’s old record in nearly half the time!

This man has spend nearly 20% of his time in office not working. Think your boss would give you 10.4 weeks of vacation a year if you were doing an amazing job? What if you were doing a crappy job? What if your company was losing money at a prodigious amount while your competitors were actively trying to destroy you?

He cut his current 5 week vacation a couple days short to start addressing the damage that Katrina caused. Of course this was the day AFTER Katrina caused the damage. Of course this was several days AFTER Katrina was identified as a risk.

I can’t believe that his approval rating is even 40%. He is destroying this country.

at least not the neocons

charts are from the budget explorer

Take a look here: See the deficits decreasing over the course of Bill Clinton’s presidency and then increase dramatically over George Bush’s presidency? 9/11 isn’t the reason for this. President Bush signed the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 on 6/7/01 and then refused to roll it back as the costs for 9/11 and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan required more and more money.

At what point is he going to admit that his plan is wrong? At what point are the American people going to say ENOUGH?

You know where George Bush has cut government expenses? Well one significant area was in flood prevention funds for the gulf coast states. Freaking genius George. Now we’ve had our US production of oil put into danger and we are going spend billions to fix the problems created because GWB would rather give more money to billionaires then save the lives and livelihoods of poor southerners (a big part of the republican base).

George W. Bush is without question the worst president in American history at this point.

When the going gets rough, the tough head to Crawford, or Idaho or VFW halls

So George ends his vacation with a few speeches to supporters and then another vacation. He moves from red state to red state, from military base to VFW hall, from one group of unquestioning supporters to another; all the while ignoring the mounting body counts in Iraq and rising opposition to the war among the American people. He tries to shore up support for the war by engaging his supporters, which is yet another stupid move from an out-of-touch elitist. Maybe now some of the people that voted for him will start to see their mistake.

George Bush doesn’t want to be America’s president, he wants to be the president of the people that like him and screw everyone else. He has never reached out to those who disagree with his policies or views. He cajoles, insults and belittles them. When politicians attack his policies, he (and Rove) try to destroy them (for example: Barbara Boxer). When those who know challenge his loose fitting of the facts (or lies) to reality he (and Rove) try to destroy them (for example: Joseph Wilson). Now that the American people are starting to question and disagree with him, he chooses to ignore us completely…

It is time for this president to be a man, to be a leader, to acknowledge what is really happening in Iraq and in his own country. To own up to his mistakes (after 1864 dead, can his still claim that he hasn’t ever made one mistake during his presidency?) and to engage the whole country in trying to fix them. Otherwise the next three years will be a comical farce as he jumps around the country from ever smaller red pocket to red pocket in an increasingly angry America; until finally he is just spending 100% of his time in Crawford pretending that everyone still loves him…

How many freaking smoking guns do we need?

How much more proof does the American public need that George Bush was planning to go into Iraq for no good reason? The Downing Street Memo and now this story that never made the news.

Last time I checked, this was my country too

These people need to learn about what compassion really means.

The Bush administration is now classifying documents at the rate of 125 per minute, an unprecedented rate. At the same time, the administration is demanding more and more information about its citizens through instruments like the Patriot Act. If information is power, George Bush wants to make sure that he has the power. The purpose of this is two-fold. If the administration controls access to the facts, it is hard to prove government allegations a lie (just ask the 9-11 commission); secondarily, it allows the administration to dig up dirt on its enemies.

some references:
The Bush Administration – a civil liberties scorecard (the ACLU)
U.S. government secrecy reaches historic high – By Scott Shane (The New York Times)
Rove talked to reporter but denies leak – By Richard B. Schmitt (Los Angeles Times)

Justice Sandra Day O’Connor is retiring

Seattle PI story

This sucks. Driving the country into war and into billions of dollars of debt wasn’t enough for this president. Now he’s going to try and ram the scariest, crazy-as-all-get-out right-wing nutcase he can onto the supreme court.

Democrats, it is time to “D” up. We need a plan NOW. We need to shut the government down if he proposes someone like Alberto Gonzales or some other far right idealogue for the bench. Even scarier is the possibility that Bush will get to put a new chief justice on the court. If that happens, anyone who likes some civil rights should just give up because you won’t be getting them in the US for the next few decades.

I pray to god that this is going to turn out to be an elaborate joke

http://www.americawestandasone.com/