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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 [...]

A new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey finds that President George W. Bush now has a 76 percent disapproval rating, making him by far the most deeply unpopular President in the history of polling.

“No other president’s disapproval rating has gone higher than 70 percent. Bush has managed to do that three times so far this year,” [...]

If you’ve been wondering, as I have, on what authority U.S. forces are conducting military operations in Pakistan and Syria. Well, we should not be surprised, there was a secret order allowing them to do so.
NY Times: Secret Order Lets U.S. Raid Al Qaeda in Many Countries
WASHINGTON — The United States military [...]

I really hate Bush and I my resentment toward those who supported him will not easily go away.

First Bush-Obama Meeting: Hard Feelings and Hand Sanitizer
As President Bush and President-elect Barack Obama prepare for their post-election meeting at the White House on Monday, memories of their first encounter linger.
President Bush and President-elect Barack Obama are probably [...]

There is no Bushie more loyal than Barney. He’s been there at the President’s side for the whole eight years. According to Bob Woodward, in 2005 President Bush had key Republicans up to the White House to talk about the Iraq occupation, and said “I will not withdraw even if Laura and Barney [...]

For the record because it is seriously funny.

There’s been a great deal of talk about corruption in politics. The last 8 years have seen a truly shocking level of corruption in government - from the Republicans K Street Project, to the Bushies’ endless politicizing of every aspect of government starting with no bid contracts for any firm connected to the Administration [...]

Continuing the theme of several of my co-authors here, enjoy Obama’s newest TV ad:

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Could it be that John McCain has run out of lies? In the latest in his long series of drastic campaign strategy changes, he’s finally getting around to telling the truth about George Bush’s failed presidency.
Voters are very afraid Senator McCain will extend Bush’s policies that have led to foreign policy and economic catastrophes. [...]

[A] surrender date … is not a good idea. It is defeat. It is a death sentence for the millions of Iraqis who voted for a constitution, who voted for a government, who voted for a free and democratic society. [White House Press Secretary Dana Perino, April 23, 2007]
The Associated Press reports that U.S. [...]

Former National Security Council chief counter-terrorism adviser Richard Clarke discusses the fact that al-Qaeda may try to influence the U.S. presidential election again, saying that “at the very least” we should “expect another Halloween video from the scary man in the cave.”

Remember that an Osama bin Laden video hit U.S. TV screens just three days [...]

Did the late Illinois Senator Everett Dirksen ever say, “A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money”? (or anything very close to that?) Perhaps not. According to one account, Dirksen said, “A newspaper fella misquoted me once, and I thought it sounded so good that I never bothered [...]