From the Bush Tapes article being discussed on the blogosphere these past few days. The quote below, the “on the other hand” Bush throws in there, is the ultimate in obscuring the truth. Excuse me, WHO has disgraced the nation? Do you think much of the world cares as much as the Right Wing in this country about Clinton’s sexual Continue Reading

Here’s another 2 or 3 “slightly minor” budget slip-ins that amount to , oh, just over a TRILLION dollars. Is the American public really this stupid? How can they EXCUSE this “tad bit” of obscuring the bare-bones facts (ie. what the programs actually cost). I am a Christian Too » Bush’s Immoral Budget To meet its claimed target of cutting Continue Reading

Kuo points out how the support for Bush gets garnered among those who find comfort in his talk of Compassionate Conservativism, and then that seems to do it for them. No further “political capital” is required to be spent. The money is suddenly unavailable when it comes time to deliver the goods. And the supporters keep referring to the “faith-based Continue Reading

I can’t get over the audacity and the hypocrisy of what Bush said to an exclsuive dinner event: “Some people call you the elite; I call you my base”. For al the talk of anti-elitism and “common Americanism”, this exposes the underbelly and the heart of this cultural strategy to build a “base” that includes not only those elite (in Continue Reading

I was watching the West Wing last night, and I had previously heard that Christopher Lloyd was going to have a guest appearance. They introduced him in the story as Lawrence Lessig, and I did a double take, wondering if that’s what they had said. Then when they introduced him to the president, Bartlett says “The Future Of Ideas?”, and Continue Reading

From a guy who actually knows something about Islam and Iraqis, Juan Cole, about the kind of Iraq is being assembled; it’s not what the Bushies want, and so they are just saying they’re getting what they want. Par for the course. Informed Comment …the main goal of political Islam in the past few decades hasn’t been clerical rule. It Continue Reading

I would have much rather watched an episode of West Wing last night. A fictional story. Better that than the fictional State of the Union the listeners will hear about. Because you see, nothing that man has to say has much relationship to reality, except to further confirm his real aims: which is to present a mirage of democracy to Continue Reading

Found this while looking at INformed Comment for news on Election Day events in Iraq (which is not going well, surprise, surprise), and Cole linked to Project for a New American Century in a post about the resignation of Douglas Feith, who was initimately involved with Rebuilding America’s Defenses SourceWatch – SourceWatch Welcome to SourceWatch (formerly called the “Disinfopedia (http://www.prwatch.org/node/3205)”), Continue Reading

“I’m pretty comfortable with the record of this Administration in the first four years in foreign policy” I don’t know about you, but is saying “I’m pretty comfortable” sound like something you say when you are ACTUALLY proud of something? Do you say to your son, when he achieves something you’re proud of, and want to communicate this to him, Continue Reading

Bush said on the radio today: “There’s not a democratic nation in the world that threatens the security of the United States” No, the view of some in the United States of what this security entails, and what they will do to “defend” it, is a threat to people outside the United States (and ultimately, to that of the United Continue Reading

A good article from Eric Altermann: MSNBC – Have death squad, will travel One weakness of liberals is our inability to credit right-wingers with a sufficient degree of malevolence.

Oh gee, here we go again. This article is pointed out by Jesus Politics, and it has the same arguments from the “keep church and state separate” folks, and a glaring cluelessness about the connection between faith and life. Jesus Politics: Katha Pollitt, Jim Wallis and God’s Politics God’s politics turn out to be curiously tailored to the current crisis Continue Reading

When I place some of my posts that deal directly with political debate in the “Democracy” category, there is always a profound crossover or overlapping to “PeaceChurch” and other of my blog categories. Bust in “categorizing”, I also run the risk of associating criticism of Bush with Democracy (even though I feel that true Democratic ideals have been disdainfully shoved Continue Reading

I guess the people of Iraq are no longer considered in the number of oppressed peoples. For if they were, Bush is saying that we won’t make excuses for our actions. Obviously, that’s not happening. The Rhetoric of Bush’s Inaugural Address versus the Reality of Bush Policy President Bush promised that “All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: Continue Reading

The second half of Carlos’s question: Hypocrisy, aptly described and analyzed in this article on Common Dreams The Rhetoric of Bush’s Inaugural Address versus the Reality of Bush Policy Correctly recognizing the roots of terrorism, President Bush noted that “as long as whole regions of the world simmer in resentment and tyranny prone to ideologies that feed hatred and excuse Continue Reading