Posts from ‘July, 2007’

The evil presence who brings us Sean Hannity’s half-wit bully-boy patriotism, the black comedy of truth-averse Bill O’Reilly and Britt Hume’s sorry excuse for “fair and balanced” news coverage, is starting a new project.



No, we’re not referring to God’s gift to yellow journalism, Rupert Murdoch, trying to flush The Wall Street Journal down his money-lined one holer. The blight-merchant billionaire’s new project is discrediting political bloggers, starting with DailyKos.

Talk-show pundits speculate Bush is keeping Gonzales on board as part of a cover-up. The Justice Department has been subverted, politicized, to a large extent depopulated and is thus demoralized. Details of how and why are the stuff indictments are made of. The pundits are probably right, but we’re convinced there is more to this than covering up.

With hearts bleeding for those poor victimized foreign corporations, many Republicans bailed out of what had been a fairly high level of bipartisan support. During a heated debate yesterday, Republicans insisted it is a tax increase.



Nonsense and more nonsense.

Columnist John Farmer experienced deja vu all over again, seeing President Bush as the reincarnation of a wacky 1960’s TV sitcom spy/sleuth. A few years back we had a similar reckoning, only in ours Bush came off like a movie-series comedy character.

Ok, what you see at left has a commercial angle to it, because it promotes a book. But it’s clever, good fun and probably somewhat useful. So, what the heck; we decided to give it a go.

Nonwealthy Americans are hurtling toward a crisis in energy and living costs.

The concept of executive privilege developed over time, outside the Constitution, to suit the convenience of presidents.



This questionable doctrine provides an excuse for presidential aides, advisors and Cabinet members to not cooperate with Congress as that branch seeks to carry out its oversight responsibility.

Quote: “Redeploying out of Iraq with the same combination of arrogance and incompetence with which the Bush administration deployed our young men and women into Iraq is completely unacceptable, and our troops deserve far better.”

Democrats set up an all-night debate in the Senate to put Republicans’ feet to the fire for blocking all attempts to bring about a course correction in Iraq — at long, long last. That debate is going on right now. . .

Consider this post an exercise in reasonable speculation based on healthy skepticism. It’s dedicated to the proposition that in the New Dark Age of Bush, you’re wise to ask, “Why this and why now?” at every juncture.