Elucidations on Bush / Cheney Misdirection
12 July 2009The following was written in reply to Richard, under the heading below on the Most Invisible Ex President. It had enough content to merit, I think, putting it up top as a post of its own. You can follow Richard’s questions and comments in his entry at the end of the other posting.
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Hi Richard,
Here are [...]
The Good News, and the Bad News
16 June 2009The good news is so obvious that half of the stories in the media are completely missing the point:
We have likely avoided global economic oblivion. The Republicans, who are largely at fault for this horrible experience, have been incessantly whining about spending, self-dealing, and anything else their focus groups can come up with: how truly [...]
The Bush Team: Time for Jail?
18 January 2009I won’t waste any time on debating whether the President, VP Cheney, Defense Chief Rumsfeld, “Scooter,” or any of another five to ten (mostly Neocon) officials in the Bush administration are guilty of crimes. They are.
Rather, I think it is more interesting to continue the very serious conversation about which exact crimes they have committed, [...]
A Few Last Desperate Consistently Self-Oriented Moves
5 December 2008Many people have been forced into having their own verbal and intellectual lenses for explaining the behaviors of George Bush.
He can’t just be insane, so — what is it? What explains his behavior?
Today, as Congress fished around for money to save the U.S. auto companies, in a pickle because they had not invested earlier in [...]