Tag Archives: 'cheney'

• In the News… $1,000,000,000,000.

  - What was originally supposed to be a weekend-long invasion, with the reconstruction paid exclusively by oil revenues, “the war in Iraq could ultimately cost well over a trillion dollars.“ – Impeachment is in order. “Attorney General Alberto Gonzales symbolizes everything that is wrong with the Bush administration: cronyism, incompetence and the culture of corruption.“ [...]

• In the News

  - Although it may be somewhat undemocratic, a smaller group of presidential aspirants in the debates would be more beneficial. – Politicians who once showed off their support for Bush are now hoping he stays away come election cycle. This hypocrisy should be covered in the media. The president was once a darling of the [...]

• In the News

  - What could possibly happen in the next two months that would make the conditions in Iraq tenable that hasn’t happened in the last five years? Bush is certainly waiting for a miracle. – John McCain on his as-of-yet disastrous campaign: “I think we’re doing fine.“ – The democrats are marching towards another stand-off as [...]

• Halliburton Stock Ride

  Alright, I’ll investigate… Although Halliburton’s stock over the past few years has been up-and-down (like most publicly-traded companies), in the last five years, or since the Iraq war has begun, Halliburton’s stock has skyrocketed… Image: CNBC.com But what is infinitely more interesting than the 5-year graph, is the graph of Halliburton’s stock price over the [...]

• In the News

  - With Katie Couric upset that she made the switch to a “hard-news evening newscast,” maybe CBS will bring back Dan Rather. Or, go for the jugular, and get Jon Stewart. – If Bush wouldn’t have commuted Libby’s sentence (with a full pardon coming January 2009), “it would have caused a fracture with the vice [...]

• Articles of Impeachment

  Robert Greenwald’s latest film highlights the arguments for impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney (via Think Progress)…

• Morning Politoon… Cheney Branch.

  Doonesbury on Cheney’s extraordinary, super-Constitutional powers…

• Skeeter Libby

  The Libby commutation is more polarizing than the Iraq war or abortion, it seems. With Iraq, you have middle ground on both sides, same with abortion, but with the Libby decision, everyone on the right believes (or says to believe) it is a good thing, and that actually Bush didn’t go far enough (read: pardon), [...]

• Libby Not Pardoned

  Uhm, does this mean I’m moving to France? Oh wait, this is technically not a pardon, so I’m still here, for now. Wow, Cheney still has clout. (Big surprise.) It is not as if Bush’s approval numbers can get any lower (might as well take advantage), and the majority of American people either don’t care [...]

• In the News

  - Well, one must admit, he has two huge balls. Representative Rahm Emanuel, brother of Hollywood super-agent Ari, proposed to cut off funds for the vice president, who had claimed that he had extraordinary powers, and was not governed by the Constitution. – Was there a real reason that price floors were not allowed for [...]

• In the News… Bush.

  - Until he is pardoned (presumably on January 19, 2009), Scooter Libby will be “federal inmate No. 28301-016.” That the real crime was committed by his boss, the vice president, and Bush’s brain, Karl Rove, is another story, one worth drinking to (to aid in one’s discomfort). – Bush is apparently still on the lord’s [...]

• In the News… the I, Me, Mine Edition.

  - I was forced to cancel plans in Tahoe this weekend because of the forest fire. By the way, because of the fire, Hotels.com refunded my money in full, with no cancellation fee. (Were the customer service people really aware of the Tahoe fire, or was this one of those magical reasons that allowed them [...]

• In the News

  - So powerful, a four-part expose won’t even do. Ana Marie Cox highlights the Washington Post series and “the extraordinary and unprecedented role that Dick Cheney has played as Vice President.“ – A sign of the Roberts/Alito court… “The Supreme Court sided with developers and the Bush administration Monday in a dispute with environmentalists over [...]

• In the News… the Non-Sensical Version.

  - “Russian astronauts and engineers may have corrected a problem yesterday that caused computers aboard the International Space Station to crash and raised the possibility that the station might have to be evacuated.” I’m just saying, if I was in space, with an internet connection available, I’d be blogging. I’m just saying. (I’m dedicated, I [...]

• Resisting the Drums of War

  Roy Eidelson, the Executive Director of the Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict at the University of Pennsylvania, sent me his latest project, a video titled “Resisting the Drums of War” that examines the war-mongering of the Bush administration… I am not sure if it really is any good, but it does come [...]

• Afternoon Politoon

  Toles on Cheney’s mission in Iraq… Image: Yahoo!

• In the News… A Rack.

  - Cheney is in Iraq as he attempt to “push Iraq’s warring political and religious factions to seek common ground,” which was the true rationale for war all along. – House democrats are pursuing a pay-as-you-go Iraq funding bill that “would give Bush $30.4 billion to pay for the Iraq war over the next two [...]

• In the News

  - Six former CIA officers have written a letter to former CIA director, suggesting that “Tenet should have resigned in protest rather than take part in the administration’s buildup to the war.” They are right. How will Bush/Cheney/Rove silence the uproar from Tenet’s new book? – “President George W. Bush will not support a war [...]

• In the News

  - If anyone cared to watch the democrat presidential hopefuls debate last night, the American people saw a distinct contrast to Bush’s stay-the-course policy in Iraq and what the democrats have to offer, a way out of Iraq. (I missed the debate last night, it is a tad too early for debates, but from the [...]

• In the News… Easy Button.

  - “Captured Iraqi documents and intelligence interrogations of Saddam Hussein and two former aides ‘all confirmed’ that Hussein’s regime was not directly cooperating with al-Qaeda before the U.S. invasion of Iraq.” Now how do we travel back in time? – “‘[Terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi] took up residence there before we ever launched into Iraq, organized [...]

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