January 2006
Bush Uses His Word of Choice a Heck of a Lot - Los Angeles Times
by mikepower
It is presidential language that would make Harry S. Truman blanch — not for its saltiness but, heck, for just the opposite. On a daily basis, sometimes several times an hour, the word "heck" creeps into President Bush's public pronouncements. People he
AMERICAblog:
by mikepower
A panel of linguists has decided the word that best reflects 2005 is "truthiness," defined as the quality of stating concepts one wishes or believes to be true, rather than the facts.
The Village Voice: The Bush Beat
by mikepower
A year after tearfully accepting a Medal of Freedom from George W. Bush for his disastrous reign in Iraq, preposterous pasha Jerry Bremer has rewritten history with a ghosted "diary" and started a book tour by saying, "I didn't do it."
Informed Comment
by mikepower
The guilty plea of fabulously wealthy and highly corrupt lobbyist Jack Abramoff raised the question of whether he would roll over on congressmen involved in illegal fundraising and other crimes with him. Some twenty Republicans on Capitol Hill are said t
December 2005
Sidney Blumenthal: Victory in name only
by mikepower
Since the election of the Shia slate that will hold power for four years, dedicated to an Islamic state allied with Iran, the president and his advisers have fallen eerily silent. As his annus horribilis draws to a close, Bush appears to have expended the
Daily Kos: Welcome To ScAlito World: Abortion
by mikepower
For those who are ambivalent about a woman's right to choose, those who support the right only in cases of rape or incest, imagine being raped in South Dakota.
Mr. Cheney's Imperial Presidency - New York Times
by mikepower
George W. Bush has quipped several times during his political career that it would be so much easier to govern in a dictatorship. Apparently he never told his vice president that this was a joke.
Fun Bits About American Torture / In many ways, the U.S. is now just as inhumane and brutal as any Third World regime. Oh well?
by mikepower
Oh my God, yes, yes we do torture, America that is, and we do it a lot, and we do it in ways that would make you sick to hear about, and we're doing it right now, all over the world
Truthdig - Ear to the Ground - By Robert Scheer
by mikepower
Call it Tonto’s revenge: The outrageous rip-off of Native American tribes by a top Republican lobbyist is leading inexorably to a reckoning for the allegedly morally superior religious and political right.
Iraq's Death Squads
by mikepower
OF ALL THE bloodshed in Iraq, none may be more disturbing than the campaign of torture and murder being conducted by U.S.-trained government police forces.
The Seattle Times: Opinion: Legalize drugs — all of them
by mikepower
I was a cop for 34 years, the last six of which I spent as chief of Seattle's police department. But no, I don't favor decriminalization. I favor legalization, and not just of pot but of all drugs, including heroin, cocaine, meth, psychotropics, mushro
Mr. Bush, have I got an exit strategy for you
by mikepower
In view of his miserable record, his arrogant lack of good judgment and his failure to understand the gravity of his record, President Bush (and Vice President Dick Cheney) should be shown the exit door with a proviso to never darken the Oval Office again
November 2005
Majority Believe White House Misleads Public, Poll Shows
by mikepower
A majority of U.S. adults believe the Bush administration generally misleads the public on current issues
October 2005
Is This the Death of America? America's sense of itself - its pride in its power - has been profoundly damaged
by mikepower
At the end of a cruel and turbulent summer, nobody is more dismayed and demoralized about America than Americans.
God calling George, come in George...
by mikepower
What a Stroke of LuckThat God's Advice to George Bush Fits So Neatly Alongside US National Interests
Jeffrey St. Clair: the Great Green Scare
by mikepower
With nothing much better to do and an unlimited budget to burn, the FBI is turning its mighty inquisitorial arsenal on environmental groups across the country.
White House Press Briefing: McClellan Defends New Claims of Terrorist Takeovers
by mikepower
After President Bush's major speech today, raising the threat of terrorism and the possible takeover of many countries, Press Secretary Scott McClellan faced skeptical questions from reporters.
Retired Army Lt. Gen. William Odom, a Vietnam veteran, on Iraq:
by mikepower
“The invasion of Iraq I believe will turn out to be the greatest strategic disaster in U.S. history,” said Odom, now a scholar with the Hudson Institute.
U.S. Generals Now See Virtues of a Smaller Troop Presence in Iraq - Los Angeles Times
by mikepower
During a trip to Washington, the generals said the presence of U.S. forces was fueling the insurgency, fostering an undesirable dependency on American troops among the nascent Iraqi armed forces and energizing terrorists across the Middle East.
September 2005
US wealthiest 'worth $1 trillion'
by mikepower
The US's richest tycoons increased their personal wealth in the past year, with the top 400 worth $1.13 trillion (£640bn), says Forbes magazine.
No Exit; Descending into hell with George Bush By Mike Whitney
by mikepower
Failure is an indelible blotch, like the mark of Cain, forever embossed on the soul of its victim. Its part of Bush's genetic-code, as integral to the whole mechanism as the cocky-drawl or the lumbering gait.
American Prospect: The Eye Of The Relief Effort
by mikepower
Do we really think the Great Depression was mainly a problem of defective character, and that people with grave personal inadequacies in 1935 somehow turned into worthy souls by 1955? Hardly.
Georgie, You’re Doing a Heck of a Job
by mikepower
The last few weeks have been irrefutable proof that America is being wrecked and mismanaged by the most incompetent, dangerous and out of touch boobs ever to obtain power.
