Posts Tagged ‘Bush’

President Bush acted Friday to provide a desperately needed bridge loan for troubled automakers General Motors and Chrysler, effectively tiding them over until shortly after Barack Obama becomes president.
The $13.4 billion loan money to be drawn from funds appropriated for the financial-industry bailout is, literally, about the least Bush could do.
The president’s plan pressures [...]

The good news centered on Obama speaking up during face time with President Bush and on Obama’s preparedness for quickly reversing Bush policies. The bad news involved giving Democrat-in-name-only Sen. Joe Lieberman a pass for his outrageous, thoroughly disloyal behavior.

Just when you think you’ve seen it all from the truth-averse, unreality-based community of the neoconservative right, along comes the Wall Street Journal with breathtaking lunacy, lying, or both.

According to recent Gallup polls, the president’s average approval rating is below 30% — down from his 90% approval in the wake of 9/11. Mr. [...]

New York Times columnist Frank Rich does a valuable service pointing out a key characteristic of Bush’s misleadership in making an equally telling point about Sen. John McCain.

Think U.S. troops backed by tanks and armed with automatic weapons putting down demonstrations on America’s streets, and U.S. military spy satellites monitoring your communications.

We once had a car radio that got terrific reception and sounded great, except when it went staticky and then cut out, going silent for awhile. That radio came to mind as we read David Brooks’ column, “Why Experience Matters,” today, only what went staticky and cut out was making sense, not audio.

Bush and Cheney are a sharp stick in our eye, and that’s what really counts with their political base.

“If there has been a basis upon which you can pursue someone for a criminal violation, they will be pursued — not out of vengeance, not out of retribution, out of the need to preserve the notion that no one, no attorney general, no president — no one is above the law.
“We will not be [...]

Do you wonder if maybe the Bush White House hoped to instigate a little “You better be scared” August surprise, the better to distract from the Democrats’ convention and maybe bolster warhawk John McCain’s presidential aspirations? Oh no, no, no, of course not, according to a Los Angeles Times blog item, “Why was Cheney’s guy in Georgia before the war?”

Rachel Maddow today cited a Congressional Budget Office study showing private contractors, 190,000 strong, far outnumber U.S. military forces in Iraq. . . .The factoid triggered our thought that if the Roosevelt Administration had used the same approach for World War II, it probably would’ve dragged on for 10 years instead of four, ending in stalemate or defeat, not victory.