So, here’s John Edwards statement about Bush’s disdain for the law of the land.
“Only a president clinically incapable of understanding that mistakes have consequences could take the action he did today. President Bush has just sent exactly the wrong signal to the country and the world. In George Bush’s America, it is apparently okay to [...]
Glenn Greenwald has a particularly cogent commentary today (click on it to bypass Salon’s homepage) at his new home on Salon. Yes I know it requires clicking through an ad (though it is quite painless) but for Glenn it is well worth the time.
Irving Kristol (Himmelfarb’s husband) has written in the past about the [...]
Matt Taibbi from Rolling Stone in a piece published over at Alternet nails the Friedman Unit. This excerpt is very telling but the whole piece is really worth a read.
I bring this up because Friedman’s latest column, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Know, Don’t Help,” is yet another “the war should have worked” piece, and it’s [...]
Frank Rich has a new column out over at the NYTimes (unfortunately behind the paywall) that really skewers the fluffed up concern now being expressed about Iranian support for Iraqi insurgents. It can also be viewed here for those without paywall access at the Times.
It’s a great piece but in my mind it doesn’t [...]
Yeah, I know, it’s been a while but sometimes real life intervenes and some things take a hiatus. This blog has been on a hiatus but I’ll be back to my old semi-irregular posting non-schedule now that things have calmed down and life has gotten considerably saner, at least in our household if not [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Yes, it is exactly like Vietnam. Now Bush has his own My Lai.
This pathetic administration has now finished the job of destroying this country, they have turned our own military into savages. They will throw these guys to the wolves and claim their policies and practices in Iraq had nothing to [...]
The following is from Dori Smith, of Talk Nation Radio
Why are groups like Indymedia and Food Not Bombs on the government’s terror watch list and why did an FBI agent show law students a list that included those groups during a class presentation on terrorism at the University of Texas March 8th? These and other [...]
There is an excellent post today by Glenn Greenwald, whose perspective on the invasion/occupation of Iraq, the Bush administration, politics and the realities of today’s conservatism, conservatives, neo-cons and Bush-cultists has crystallized over the last few weeks into an eerily prescient vision.
Here’s his latest entry on the increasingly bizarre lengths to which Republicans will go [...]
Some good stuff today:
From BobGeiger today an entry by Dr. Forbush on how Bush’s policy of fear is biting him in the ass.
And from Glenn Greenwald over at Unclaimed Territory yet another good post on Bush’s dying Presidency.
And over at MediaMatters they have a post showing that Fox News seems to think that blowing up [...]
OK, we are now entering Alternative Universe territory. According to Donald (Duck) Rumsfeld we are losing the war in Iraq…excuse me, he said we’re lagging “dangerously behind”, which isn’t exactly the same thing as winning…because Al Qaeda has better Blackberries.
The United States lags dangerously behind al Qaeda and other enemies in getting out information [...]
It occurred to me this morning that the story of Dick Cheney shooting his hunting partner in the head with a shotgun is important because of what it illustrates about this administration but even more importantly what it illustrates about the people of this administration.
Those of us who have been critical of the bush administration [...]
Glenn Greenwald has two posts up that really define what is happening in this country right now politically. The people destroying, and rooting on the destroyers, aren’t conservatives at all, they are bush cultists. As I pointed out yesterday he really nailed the reality of the bush defenders and today he addresses the [...]