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Today president-elect Barack Obama announced:
. . . retired Army Gen. Eric K. Shinseki as his nominee to head the Department of Veterans Affairs, bringing to his Cabinet a career military officer best known for running afoul of the Bush administration by questioning the Pentagon’s Iraq war strategy.
When Shinseki told us his honest estimation of [...]

The great spinners of the Bush administration, Karen Hughes and Karl Rove, are back in the White House with a team working on the Bush Legacy Project to put a positive spin on the last eight years. I.e., rewriting history. Rachel Maddow is keeping them honest (video below).
Bush in an interview blames faulty [...]

Via Think Progress, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates held a press conference today and effectively declared that President-elect Obama’s 16-month Iraq withdrawal plan is a “go.”

Yesterday, President-elect Obama said that “16 months is the right time frame” for withdrawing all U.S. combat troops from Iraq, noting that he would “listen to the recommendations” his commanders [...]

We now have President George W. Bush’s self-evaluation on the record. Without a doubt, he is the worst U.S. president in history. On his watch, we experienced:

The biggest terrorist attack ever on American soil, with a death toll worse than Pearl Harbor in 1941
A failed “war on terror” — after 7 years, al-Qaeda [...]

This is Bush drinking a Pisco Sour. Its a cocktail containing Pisco (a Peruvian brandy), lemon juice, egg whites, simple syrup, and regional bitters.
Most of our Republican friends are probably unaware that Bush is an alcoholic and that he was a major coke head. Thats cocaine for the ‘Ozzie and Harriets.’
Of course I [...]

George you have done enough, don’t do any anything else. Don’t even water a plant. It’s like this country was a brand new BMW, George smashes it into a tree, and then tosses the keys to Barack Obama and says, “Enjoy! It’s all yours.”

Funny. But it brings to mind [...]

Ahmed Benchemsi, writing for Newsweek, explains why Ayman al Zawahiri went after President-elect Obama in a recent Web message. Zawahiri clumsily denounced Obama as a “house slave” or “abeed al-beit” in Arabic. An English subtitle provided by Al Qaeda’s propaganda arm translates the term as “house Negro.”
Benchemsi wrote:

Al Qaeda and all its followers badly [...]

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)

From [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]