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Oh man, the press conference today with Bush and his pet puppy dog Tony Blair is frightening for both the sheer inanity of the Administration viewpoint expressed by Bush and the glimpse into the horror of how he apparently views the world and our role in it. (my bold)
Here’s part of [...]
So, now the mainstream news is all abuzz because Arlen Specter is supposedly going to “challenge” Bush’s use of signing statements.
Yes, well lovely idea except that his previously announced new Senate bill that will give Congressional stamp of approval to the Bush doctrine of the unitary executive which presumes unlimited executive power for the President [...]
This is what the world sees when they look at bush. His behavior the other day towards Chancellor Merkel of Germany would be reprehensible if he did it at a church social but it is even more so at a meeting of world leaders (and no, I don’t include him in the list of [...]
I just saw this post on Think Progress that highlights more pronouncements from Weekly Standard honcho, Fox News hired blowhard and PNAC nincompoop Bill Kristol concerning how the people of Iran will greet us when we bomb the shit out of their country hoping to hit something important in the process.
The comments about the outcome [...]
Hmmm, so George W. Bush thinks stem cell research “…would support the taking of innocent human life of the hope of finding medical benefits for others. It crosses a moral boundary that our society needs to respect,…”
How fascinating that he spins medical research that way while at the same time he happily promotes militaristic policies [...]
Despite the feeble protestations of Condaleeza Rice today the Bush administration owns lock, stock and barrel, the bloody mess that is now the Middle East.
Yes, our invasion and occupation of Iraq and our subsequent impotence in dealing with the problems we’ve created there, including turning Iraq into a hotbed of terrorist recruitment, training and activity, [...]
John Dean has a new book Conservatives without Conscience where he delves into the psychological underpinnings of modern neoconservatism, a quite distinct beast from the Goldwater conservatism of yesterday to which its adherents pay lip service.
Here’s an excerpt from an op-ed he wrote for the Boston Globe.
What I found provided a personal epiphany. Authoritarian conservatives [...]
They are getting their wish. The members of the Axis of Apocalyptic Evil (i.e. the Cheney/Rummy Paleocons driving the Bushite/Weekly Standard Neocons using the moral force of the Robertson/Falwell Endtimes Theocons) are seeing their vision fulfilled in the current Israeli slaughterfest in the Middle East. First they destroy what little government infrastructure the [...]
I’ve been checking the incredible Baghdad Burning blog produced by Riverbend, a courageous Iraqi woman who has been blogging from the heart of Baghdad since the war began. I hadn’t seen anything there since early June and with all the killings in Baghdad and her relatively high profile I worry when she doesn’t post [...]
Well now, it has been an interesting couple of days. It seems John Dean has a new book out called Conservatives without Conscience and it ought to prove interesting reading. Keith Olbermann interviewed him the other day about it in a thoughtful and fascinating interview. (video courtesy of Crooks and Liars).
The basic premise [...]
Read the entire entry on Unclaimed Territory but these two paragraphs really state the premise I’ve long advocated (and much better than I) that our current neoconservative regime and ideology is premised on the United States being fundamentally weak and vulnerable and our foundational values inadequate to the task of “defending” us in our weak [...]
Thanks to Mahablog for this link to the Newsweek online article by Christopher Dickey on nationalism and patriotism, the differences between them and what it means for this country.
Here’s the Orwell quote that she highlighted.
“All nationalists have the power of not seeing resemblances between similar sets of facts,” said Orwell. “Actions are held to be [...]
Read this column by Paul Craig Roberts, an arch-conservative, former Assistant Treasury Secretary under Reagan and someone with whom I seldom have agreed on much of anything. But he pulls no punches in this column and illustrates why traditional conservatism, of which he is most certainly a Dean, is finally waking up to the [...]