The always-great Ken Baer noticed yesterday that Bush’s prospects for post-presidency employment look a little shaky. On January 20, 2005, Bush will be only 58 years old, and in good health. Unlike Gerald Ford, he is too young to hit the celebrity golf tournament circuit. Unlike Richard Nixon, he has shown none of the intellectual […]
Bush raised a few eyebrows this week by expressing his support for gay civil unions. President Bush said in an interview this past weekend that he disagreed with the Republican Party platform opposing civil unions of same-sex couples and that the matter should be left up to the states. Mr. Bush has previously said that […]
John Kerry did a nice job yesterday of using recent events to highlight one of the more serious problems with Bush’s approach to governing. Kerry said Tuesday that the [377 tons of explosives at Al Qaqaa] were evidence of broader problems with Bush’s presidency, accusing him of plotting to cover up the missing explosives until […]
Considering how unpopular Bush is with people around the world, I kind of assumed BC04 would want to allow easy access to glowingly positive spin crafted by the campaign itself. Apparently, I assumed wrong. Surfers outside the US have been unable to visit the official re-election site of President George W Bush. The blocking of […]
I got a great email yesterday from a reader named B.C. about Bush’s willful violations of the Geneva Conventions, including the White House belief that it has the authority to secretly transport detainees out of Iraq for interrogation and concealing them from the International Red Cross. B.C. noted that the Declaration of Independence listed among […]
I’ve often wondered, on a practical level, what conservatives think will happen if gay marriage ever became law. We got a hint of the far-right’s irrational and delusional fears a few months ago when Sen. Rick “Man on Dog” Santorum (R-Pa.) announced: “[T]he consequence is very clear. Marriage loses its significance. People will stop getting […]
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay shouldn’t be a vulnerable incumbent. He’s a powerful (though criminally corrupt) lawmaker in a conservative state, who’s never faced a tough election in his career. Consider his winning percentage of the vote totals in his 10 elections to the House: 63%, 60%, 65%, 68%, 74%, 69%, 71%, 67%, 72%, 65%. […]
Ayad Allawi, Iraq’s interim prime minister, seemed content last month to appear with Bush as a campaign prop on the White House South lawn, even allowing a Bush campaign staffer to prepare his remarks for an address to Congress. Now, however, the man Bush praised as a “courageous leader” and a “friend” has gone off-message. […]
Andrew Card may be a notorious Bush hack, but I have to admire his creativity. White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card was in Albuquerque on Monday calling reports of missing explosives in Iraq an “old story,” and saying Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry is exploiting the issue for political purposes. “I don’t know why […]
The examples of Republicans relying on election fraud have been piling up lately, but here’s one you’ll definitely want to keep an eye on (thanks NDR): A secret document obtained from inside Bush campaign headquarters in Florida suggests a plan – possibly in violation of US law – to disrupt voting in the state’s African-American […]