Tag: bush
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December 20, 2009 12:28 PM EST --
Frank Rich has an editorial in today New York Times that I find all-too-true.
Some highlights:
If there’s been a consistent narrative to this year and every other in this decade, it’s . . .
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October 03, 2006 05:08 PM EDT --
The chutzpah of Republicans knows no limits. They complain that the hypocrisy of Mark Foley, defender of children from predators, was revealed six weeks before the election--when the Speaker and other . . .
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November 03, 2006 02:24 AM EST --
Where We Went Wrong
By Dick Armey, Washington Post op-ed
Somewhere along the road to a "permanent majority," the Republican Revolution of 1994 went off track. ... Where did the revolution go . . .
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December 27, 2006 07:26 PM EST --
though since our current president is the worst ever and the one who has done the most damage to the security and reputation of the United States (and is not done yet!), the only totally unelected president's . . .
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May 15, 2007 02:12 PM EDT --
When Bill Clinton was in the White House, I found much of what he did dubious, though his successor has made all 42 of his predecessors look better in comparison.
Whatever crime or folly (and the latter . . .
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September 20, 2006 03:25 PM EDT --
In a column in the Bay Area Reporter last week, Tommi Mecca suggested that much of the American populace has been trained to have Pavlovian responses: salivating to any mention of "gay marriage" . . .
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January 03, 2007 09:35 PM EST --
After an all-Republican government that inherited a budget surplus has turned the United States into a debtor of the PRC (etc.) has lost its majority in the House of Representatives, . . .
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March 08, 2007 12:45 AM EST --
In today's San Francisco Chronicle, its D. C. bureau chief Mark Sandalow provided an analysis of why the "Scooter" Libby trial was far more important in showing how the Bush administration . . .
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April 17, 2007 07:11 PM EDT --
In the New York Times article about Robert Dallek's new book, Partners in Power, on Nixon/Kissinger foreign policyand their penchant for secrecy and unaccountability, the Vietnam:Iraq parallel . . .
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November 21, 2006 03:35 PM EST --
The title is a claim George W. Bush has made, even while some of his underlings have been scurrying to get retroactive immunity. Many undocumented aliens have been held in inhumane conditions and tortured . . .
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June 08, 2007 01:58 PM EDT --
I sympathize with the frustration some have expressed that the death of the demagogue Jerry Falwell has received more media coverage than the deaths of American military personnel in Iraq combined. I am . . .
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August 29, 2007 08:20 PM EDT --
More and more, Americans have been noticing how dishonest the Bush administration is. It has provided another demonstration that what it says about promoting democracy in the world is a lie by again preventing . . .
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October 04, 2007 07:18 PM EDT --
In 'splainin' his fourth veto, our president has conjured a bogey man of "government-run healthcare" and even "socialized medicine." Is it too much to expect someone in his . . .
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April 30, 2009 04:41 PM EDT --
In Madrid today, Judge Baltasar Garzón has announced that an inquiry into the Bush administration’s torture policymakers now will proceed to a formal criminal investigation. Judge Garzón previously . . .
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September 25, 2006 05:56 PM EDT --
Having reread The Stranger (first published in 1942 as L'étranger after W's publicized reading of it ((it and a biography of Roberto Clemente were the two books he is supposed to have read . . .
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October 25, 2006 03:38 PM EDT --
It's hard to contemplate anything having to do with the fate of empires without imaging reflections from the chas of Iraq, though even George W. Bush's harshest critics imagine that his military . . .
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November 06, 2006 01:01 PM EST --
Ariane Huffington, another Republican who has been outraged by Bush & Co. and their contempt for "reality-based" analysis, posted the following, with an apposite quotation from another Republican . . .
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November 26, 2006 03:07 PM EST --
Nearing the six-month mark for the Iraq government's existence, I wrote that it had failed. At the time some Bush apologists claimed that the increased violence in Iraq was aimed at influencing American . . .
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January 31, 2007 07:37 PM EST --
Once upon a time (414 B.C. to be exact) there was a very confident, very rich and powerful city-state called Athens that sent its mighty forces to gain control of a land . . .
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May 14, 2008 01:04 PM EDT --
A few weeks ago Stuart Bowen Jr., the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, reported that many illions of dollars of Iraq reconstruction contracts were "never finished . . .
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