Bush Administration Archive

Thoughts on the most controversial presidency in a generation.

• Reflections On Bush

  I miss George W. Bush. To be completely honest, I have a lot less to write/blog about since he’s left…
  Oh, I love Obama’s idea on [fill in the blank]. It is such a terrific idea. He is the greatest president ever. I am so proud to be an American right now.
  It just doesn’t have [...]

• Cheney’s Trauma

  Also while I was away, Dick Clarke penned an op-ed, criticizing the excuses being laid down (loudly and all too often) by Dick Cheney…
  Yes, Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice may have been surprised by the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 — but it was because they had not listened. And their surprise led them to [...]

• A New Year, A New Bush

  What is nice about celebrating a new year, is that it is inherently positive; there can not be a negative outlook. If you had a bad year, a new year can change everything. If you had an especially good year, there is no reason to think that the good times will not continue. The same [...]

• Liveblogging the Bush News Conference

  8:00amNo arrival yet. And your bird can sing.*
  8:02amBirds still singing, no sign of Bush. Oh, there he is. “Please be seated.”
  8:02amBush: “My members of Congress.” Huh?
  8:03amBush quotes the Iraq Study Group. What has happened over this past year? Oh yea, the Democrats regained control of Congress.
  8:06amBush mentions a catch-and-release immigration policy, similar to the fishing [...]

• Bush’s Right Or Duty

  I am not a fan of the Colbert Report on Comedy Central; although I have been a longtime avid viewer of the Daily Show, I feel that Colbert’s O’Reilly-esque act should be limited to three minutes or less. However, earlier this week, Colbert’s satire led to an excellent point while faux-interviewing Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein. [...]

• Nine Months

  For nine months, the administration did nothing. Bush and Cheney refused to accept Bill Clinton’s advice that Islamic fundamentalist terrorists were the gravest threat to the United States. They refused to meet with Richard Clarke. They refused to accept reality.
  (1) Did George W. Bush cause the events of nine-eleven? No.
  (2) Was George W. Bush the [...]

• What would a Bushie do?

  What would a Bushie do…
  …to clean up the environment?
  – Let the polluters regulate the polluters. (Because pollution doesn’t really exist, it’s just been made up over the years by the environmental wackos and PhDs at Berkeley, Harvard, Stanford, Michigan, Syracuse, MIT, et cetera. “They know nothing; I know all.”)
  …to decrease foreign oil dependency?
  – Drill for [...]

• The EPA Chief

  The EPA administrator should be an environmental engineer… and an environmentalist. The chief of the Environmental Protection Agency should understand the issues, financially and scientifically. A politician may understand the broad terms of financial issues regarding the environment, but most likely does not understand the environment with its intricate nature. Appointing an engineer to this [...]

• The Bush EPA continues to disappoint

  The EPA is not supposed to cover up for the President, and hide realities, dangers, or environmental atrocities they know to exist. This is what has happened though since Mr. Bush has taken his oath of office.
  Bush appointed a horrible administrator in Whitman, who had a horrific environmental record as Governor of New Jersey. She [...]

• Secretaries of State and Defense

  The Secretary of Defense should always be for war (and in this sense, Donald Rumsfeld is a great Defense Minister), and the Secretary of State should always be for peace, against war, and always striving for diplomatic resolve. (Colin Powell, some may successfully argue, meets this criterion.)
  However, when the Secretary of State has zero-say in [...]

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