Tag: Bush
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Where it really hurts
As I am in the habit of doing, I fired off this e-mail to a family friend working overseas this morning: Can you believe what’s going on here? The country is going down the tubes. * * * In some countries I know, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson (he cashed out from Goldman Sachs in 2006…
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Outdated but still funny
Welcome wagon Serrano Votes Against Wall Street Bailout – NY Times BlogShare, Yesterday at 8:31pm Four of New York State’s 29 representatives voted no on the $700 billion economic bailout package that the House of Representatives rejected on Monday in a historic vote, 228 to 205. The four no votes from New York State came…
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We saw this movie before
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Bushism, again
“There’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again.” George W. Bush, 2002 Just after the September 11th terrorist attacks occurred, George W. Bush went before the nation and…
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John Nichols in The Nation
Sen. Barack Obama, in this ad, reads the situation right. He should set an alternative path to whatever Bush and McCain are proposing. The plan Bush has and what the crowd in Washington want to do is exactly the kind of plans Obama should run away from: Mr. Nichols reads the situation just right. An…
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In jest, maybe
Alright, this piece by New Yorker magazine’s Hendrik Hertzberg is funny, I think: PALINOPSIA A neurologist friend, Dr. Richard Ransohoff, has drawn our attention to an early contribution to the suddenly burgeoning field of palinological studies. It is hoped that this paper, published, in 1989, in the Swiss-based journalEuropean Neurology (Vol. 29, No. 6) may…
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Bush approval ratings
The Public v. McCain When the American public disapproves of Bush’s Presidency more and more each day, why does McCain continue to increase his support of such increasingly unpopular policies and positions? Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin
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Kucinich’s Articles
I know it is campaign season and the thinking across the land is to leave George W. Bush in place and let him run out the clock on his presidency. I apologize therefore for bothering you, dear readers, with this. Here are the 35 articles of impeachment that the Honorable Rep. Dennis Kucinich has filed…
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How I’m Learning to Relax
By reading Sadly, No!, that’s how: Upon becoming president, Hussein Obama X’s very first act — after freeing Mumia, signing a reparations bill and implementing Sharia law, of course — should be to oust every single unqualified hack that Bush hired right out of Regent University and banish them from ever working again in any…
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‘Honest Belief’
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