Just Impeach the Stupid Freak
I wish they’d asked about “stupid”
Latest poll on Torture President’s standing with the ‘murkan people: Why the hell are pollsters so frigging polite? Here are some words I wish they’d asked people to rate Dubya on: * Stupid * Ignorant * Moronic * Sadistic * Evil * Incompetent * Petulant * Vicious * Incoherent * Delusional And those are just [...]
Bush Declares War on United States
Leon Panetta says that “no president can conduct a war without the support of the American people and without the support of the Congress. That’s the lesson of history.” Bush says, “Watch me”: Bush struck a defiant note in an interview to be televised tomorrow by CBS on 60 Minutes. Asked if he believes he [...]
Iran, Iraq, and other handbasket destinations
Like apparently everyone else in the blogosphere, I spent yesterday musing over this business with Iran. If you’re just getting up to speed, I recommend Bush invaded Iran last night at Americablog and The President’s intentions towards Iran need much more attention from Glenn Greenwald. Increasingly the world media is reporting this as a back-door [...]
Is it just me or is Bush a deranged out-of-control mass murderer?
“I’m George Bush, and the fact that I’m making this speech from the White House Library means that everything will be different now in Iraq. But I’m still a homicidal maniac.” Most bizarre moment in the speech: “To step back now would force a collapse of the Iraqi government, tear that country apart and result [...]
It’s not a surge
Here’s your drinking game for the evening: count how many times Torture President and the bobble-head pundits use the word “surge” to describe the escalation of the war in Iraq. It’s not a surge. It’s an escalation. From Eric Alterman at the Center for American Progress: As Vali Nasr wrote late last month at TPMCafe—making [...]
“The nation is being led by Limbaugh, Powerline, and Michelle Malkin”
From Digby: This isn’t just another instance of “the buck stops here” accountability. This is an instance of direct, personal intervention by the president who countermanded the advice of his experts and ordered something to be done that resulted in nuclear secrets, written in arabic, landing on the internet. He did this because he listened [...]
No Balm in Gilead
I’ve been running from this picture for a week now. It’s a photograph of the signing ceremony for the new torture bill. The bill legalizes torture, including rape, and denies due process to anyone the President declares an enemy of the state. Which, of course, could be anyone. Look how happy they are. Look at [...]
Let’s see how many euphemisms for torture we can come up with
Today Torture President signed the bill legalizing torture (including rape) and rescinding habeas corpus. Do you suppose this is being reported accurately in the national news? If you do, then is there room under that rock for me too? Here are the headline phrases used to describe this bill, piping hot and fresh from my [...]
Goddamnit, my head just exploded again
Via Think Progress via Atrios via a comment at Pandagon, here’s Bush’s reaction to the news that 655,000 Iraqis have died because of the war: I am, you know, amazed that this is a society which so wants to be free that they’re willing to — you know, that there’s a level of violence that [...]
Just in case you had in any questions about what “purposefully and materially” meant
Thursday night Congress passed a bill rescinding the Constitution* and giving the President unilateral power to kidnap, imprison, torture, and murder anyone in the world just ’cause he feels like it. All he has to do — though really, do you suppose anyone will hold him to even this minimal standard? — is decide that [...]
