Archive for October 2005

The monthlies.

• Bush Decides To Trash Miers Nomination

  What’s worse? One really, really bad week (Miers withdraws nomination, indictments of at least two senior administration officials) or two bad weeks (if Miers had withdrawn next week). Seems like the White House is cutting their losses here. The right despised the nominee and can get behind the president’s next choice whether or not Rove [...]

• And Cheney Is Replaced By…

  I know there are differing opinions and conflicting accounts of what actually occurred today as special prosecutor Fitzgerald withheld handing down indictments today or announcing one way or another what the immediate future holds for his investigation into the outing of a CIA operative, however, we can always hope for the best… Deputy Chief of [...]

• The GOP Trickle-Down Effect

  With no defense of a do-nothing Congress or an obstructionist Senate (all three branches of the federal government are GOP-controlled), the GOP has to face up to the fact that maybe their policies for the wealthy are not as effective as one may have hoped. Doonesbury targets a few of the GOP’s unfortunate political shortfalls [...]

• Judith Miller A Paid Pundit?

  On the topic of Judith Miller, is it so hard to believe Miller is next in line behind Maggie Gallagher and Armstrong Williams as paid pundits by the Bush administration to covertly praise their plans (cloaked as journalism)? Maybe she wasn’t paid the nominal $21,500 but did the reporter act in concert (knowingly or unknowingly) [...]

• Down And Dirty Satire

  I posted a satirical response to Jake Tapper’s most recent blog-entry… Aren’t we pre-judging the outcome of Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson’s comments? Isn’t it also critical to evaluate the weight of the crime that is referenced when someone purportedly perjures? I mean, the crimes committed in the Clinton administration versus the alleged crimes by the [...]

• Classic Bush On Iraq Threat (Video)

  In a March 17, 2003, address to the nation, Bush outlined one more time the threats posed to the United States by Saddam Hussein’s regime as he called for the Iraqi leader to leave within forty-eight hours. Bush insisted, “the terrorist threat to America and the world will be diminished the moment that Saddam Hussein [...]

• Guide To Determine If Your Talking To A Conservative

  Following my first day of work at the first company I worked for out of school, I came home and told my girlfriend how my day went. “They are both republicans,” I said to her. “Well, not republicans, conservatives.” She instantly wondered how I was able to determine that in what amounted to less than [...]

• One Way To Relax This Weekend

  There is ample pressure on the Bush administration as this week comes to a close: indictments are feared; the economy is still struggling; young Americans continue to die in Iraq. Tom Toles offers a suggestion on how Bush should spend the upcoming weekend… (Click on image for full cartoon.) Image: Yahoo!

• Judy Miller, A Cog In An Orchestra; Fox News Awaits

  Judith Miller, embattled reporter for the New York Times, who had spent three months in a jail cell protecting a source she can not recall, was a cog in the propaganda machine orchestrated by the Bush administration as it made its case for war against Iraq. Miller once wrote in the Times that Iraq had [...]

• Parents Television Council: "Not Much On."

  The Parents Television Council (PTC) released its annual list of the best and worst of what is on television (for family viewing, that is, not quality), and to no one’s surprise, Fox made the “worst” list on six occasions. It turns out however that PTC had a hard time making their list this year, not [...]

• Site Design

  Yes, things have changed around here; I will be posting an archived version of the site for sheer nostalgic reasons shortly… What’s new?Well, firstly, a lot more color; blues and greens. Very spring-like; rebirth.Secondly, two columns over to the right, an active RSS feed of the latest NPR headlines; you can read or listen.Thirdly, a [...]

• Changing The Tone In Washington

  Jack Abramoff; Tom DeLay; Bill Frist. Karl Rove; Scooter Libby; Dick Cheney. All six have something in common. Tom Toles notes that George W. Bush, a uniter, not a divider, has successfully lived up to at least one of his election 2000 campaign platitudes… (Click on image for full cartoon.) Image: CBSNews.com

• Hughes Defies Constitutional Boundary

  When Karen Hughes was named, here it is, Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, her mission was to inform the middle east about the “greatness” of the United States and help bridge the divide between the Western and Muslim worlds. This doesn’t help… During a briefing en route to Ankara Turkey on September [...]

• Full Responsibility

  In this Sunday’s edition of Boondocks, accepting full responsibility seems hollow (and a tad too late). (Click image for full cartoon.) Image: Yahoo! Recently archived: Not Playing The Blame Game.

• Impeachment 4.0

  It can’t be (and it most likely won’t), but there is the chance that President George W. Bush may face impeachment because of the ongoing CIA-leak investigation. Why? Because of Paula Jones. Paula Jones, an employee of the state of Arkansas, opened a can of worms by suing President Bill Clinton for allegedly exposing himself [...]

• A Phone Number Has Ten Digits

  The most infuriating thing in the age of cell phones, etc., is when you receive a message (voice-mail) on a landline phone (one that doesn’t record incoming numbers, that is, not one of those cool Cisco phone systems), and the caller tells you his or her number is “689-6335.” Okay, so what’s the area code? [...]

• Why Dobson Likes Miers

  James Dobson of Focus on the Family believes Miers is the conservative jurist that Bush claims she to be. How does he know? Well, Karl Rove may have tipped him in one direction. In a teleconference with christian activists… Mr. Dobson introduced them [Judge Kinkeade and Justice Hecht] by saying, “Karl Rove suggested that we [...]

• Strange Bedfellows

  The democrats and conservatives are seemingly working together to halt the Harriet Miers’ nomination to the Supreme Court. This marriage is only on the face, however, as conservatives are demanding a more conservative jurist be appointed, and democrats want a more qualified (and less conservative) appointee. If either (or both) get their way in Miers [...]

• Classic Doonesbury on Bush: January 21, 2001

  The first Sunday following Bush being sworn in as the forty-third president of the United States (in fact, it was the following day: Bush was sworn in on Saturday, January 20, 2001), Gerry Trudeau took force in his first opportunity of a full-sized edition of Doonesbury. The topic and commentary of this first cartoon of [...]

• Bush Press Secretary Resorts To "New-Aged McCarthyism"

  Welcome to the new age (read: Velvet Underground, Beck). The Bush administration has had enough with those in the media who do not support the increasingly unpopular so-called “war on terror,” and they are no longer worried about expressing that. McClellan went after Helen Thomas yesterday in the briefing room; McClellan basically told Helen that [...]

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