The New York Times pounded the White House today: "The person who made that statement was very misguided and ill informed," the president said. We beg to differ. Mr. Egeland was right on target. We...
Author - Bob Cesca
Tsunami relief and the 'War on Terror'
Mr. Bush's reaction to the tsunamis in the Indian Ocean has turned out to be quite an indicator for his true motives in the "War on Terror". The devastation in the Asian countries has the very real...
George and Osama: Endless Love
George W. Bush loves Osama bin Laden. Big, sloppy, hearts in the notebook margins man-love. Osama began the courtship by giving Bush a big gift in 2001: huge approval ratings and the support of the...
Neocon flashback: Irvine's 'Wag the Dog'
One of the founders of the neocon movement, Reed Irvine, died last month. Those of you who have read "Republican Noise Machine" are familiar with the name. Shortly after Spiro Agnew's 1969 speech...
Arkansas judge kills anti-gay law
An Arkansas judge has struck down a law in that state prohibiting foster children from living in homes where gay adults reside. The AP reports that County Circuit Judge Timothy Fox ruled: the...
Priorities of a 'compassionate' leader
$35 million. $40 million.
VIDEO: "Comedy"
While Faramir and his men are sent to die in an impossible conflict, Lord Denethor indulges himself from the safety of his castle. Click to watch.
Pat Buchanan joins anti-war voices
Pat Buchanan's December 27th column reads as if someone from our side hacked his computer and ghost-wrote his latest missive. Check these quotes: What is our mission now? When did it change? With...
My Pet Goat II: Still Missing
Where is Mr. Bush? On vacation, clearing brush, talking goo-goo talk with Barney the dog, mopping up Jenna's egg nog puke. Or is he reading "My Pet Goat"? As the death toll in the Indian Ocean...
Weird Tucker Carlson tsunami interview
From last night's "News Night with Aaron Brown" with guest host Tucker Carlson: CARLSON: Imagine now being awakened from sleep by a sound at the door, the sound in this case being the Indian Ocean...
Bush's shrinkage and some history
George W. Bush's current job approval rating is somewhere in the range of 49% (Fox, for example, shows him at 48%). The buzz is that he'll go into his second inaugural with the lowest job approval of...
Pooty Poot pokes U.S. elections
This flew way under the media radar yesterday. Then again, the U.S. media's radar is made of papier mache, a 9-volt battery, and shoelaces. Russian President Pooty Poot* as reported in the Australia...
Open your Bush playbook to page 2003
First noted by Josh Marshall at TPM, the Boston Globe is now discussing the startling similarities between Bush's build up to Iraq and his build up to Social Security privatization. The Globe: Much...
Bush: $15 million to tsunami relief
I'm not inclined to politicize such a large scale disaster, but an initial U.S. pledge of $15 million for disaster relief (link) for the Indian Ocean nations seems remarkably weak, no? With so much...
Ohio election suits filed; media naps
Ohio Secretary of State and all around weasel, Ken Blackwell, filed a lawsuit today to prevent him from answering to legal challenges to the Ohio vote. The Guardian: Blackwell, in a court filing...
Bush on poverty: "What's a 'poverty'?"
CNN had this cheery holiday report for the era of George W. Bush, Compassionate Conservative: According to the most recent Census Bureau statistics, nearly 36 million Americans lived in poverty in...
Do Bush's "neighbors" include evildoers?
George W. Bush's Christmas message: Christmastime reminds each of us that we have a duty to our fellow citizens, that we are called to love our neighbor just as we would like to be loved ourselves...
Yushchenko, democracy wins
When there's organized, strategic protest and worldwide attention, there's nothing that can't be done. Yushchenko has a lot of work ahead of him, but The Cause is strong. The only question remains...
Josh Marshall: Bushies in "lying phase"
Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo brought up a typically insightful comparison between the Bushes' build up to the Iraq War and their current PR campaign for privatizing Social Security. It's an...
Santorum: evolution up for debate
Only in Bush's America would the issue of evolution de-evolve to the level of "controversial public debate". Senator Rick Santorum, who recently was caught bilking a Pittsburgh area school district...