One Utah

Most assuredly, this is just the beginning. Is this Paul Mero’s idea of conservatism?

From: November 20, 2008
Willacy County district attorney, Juan Angel Guerra. He leaves office on December 31st.
A Texas judge has set an arraignment date for Friday (11/21) for Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. They were indicted this [...]

A protester uses his shoe to strike an effigy of U.S. President George. W. Bush, in an expression of contempt, as thousands of followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr converged on Firdos Square in central Baghdad, Iraq for a mass prayer to protest a proposed U.S.-Iraqi security pact on Friday, Nov. 21, 2008.(AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

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Bush lost the battle AND the war. This man does not deserve the pity he is going to get. He deserves the place in history he earned.

President Bush, May 1, 2007 (emphasis added):
It makes no sense to tell the enemy when you plan to start withdrawing. All the terrorists would have to do is mark their calendars and gather their strength — and begin plotting how to overthrow the government and take control of the country of Iraq. I believe setting [...]

Via Nathan Hodge on Danger Room: Gen. David McKiernan — who is commander of both the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and U.S. Forces Afghanistan — told an audience at the Atlantic Council of the United States that he sees the insurgency divided into roughly two camps:

I like to refer to the Taliban as [...]

I know nothing about this story except what I read on KSL.com. Certainly of interest.
President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales have been indicted on state charges involving federal prisons in a South Texas county that has been a source of bizarre legal and political battles under the outgoing prosecutor.
The indictment returned [...]

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is doing whatever it can to help the Bush administration wreck our public lands. Back in February, I wrote:

They can’t be serious…. The federal government has come back to the idea, sensibly abandoned in the early 1980s, of extracting tar sands and oil shale in Utah. These are [...]

And here is Utah’s reward for being the reddest state, the most supportive of the Bush administration. As one of his last acts, he opens up new land to oil and gas exploration on the borders of Arches and Canyonlands Parks.
Late on Election Day, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced a Dec. 19 [...]

Karl Rove has an opinion article this week in the Wall Street Journal, History Favors Republicans in 2010, in which he laboriously explains how Republicans have an advantage in 2010. Here’s a bit:
Redistricting and reapportionment could help tilt the playing field back to the GOP in Congress and the race for the White House [...]

This is what you call major violation of the public trust. It is so outrageous, there are no words for it. The Bush administration has managed to achieve one more major disaster before leaving office–give away BILLIONS of taxpayers dollars with NO OVERSIGHT. That’s right. We were told how absolutely necessary [...]

Via Raw Story: Early this morning, commuters nationwide were delighted to find out that while they were sleeping, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan had come to an end. If, that is, they happened to read a “special edition” of today’s New York Times.

The paper, post-dated July 4, 2009, was allegedly printed by the [...]

In an article in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, Siobhan Gorman speculates that President Obama’s advisers will urge him to stick with disastrous and counterproductive Bush administration policies such as widespread illegal surveillance and torture. Apparently, these so-called “pragmatic” advisers have somehow missed noticing the abject failure of the so-called Global War of Terror and [...]