In my last post, I mentioned Frank Rich’s waffling about what to do about the the incredible bush-ness of being – criminal proceedings or a Commission. I’m conflicted about it myself. Reviewing this blog, or my emails to friends, or listening in to lunchtime conversations, you would hear the same kind of back and forth. […]
Obama Can’t Turn the Page on Bush New York Times By Frank Rich May 16, 2009 To paraphrase Al Pacino in “Godfather III,” just when we thought we were out, the Bush mob keeps pulling us back in. And will keep doing so. No matter how hard President Obama tries to turn the page on […]
Conservatives Map Strategies on Court Fight New York Times By CHARLIE SAVAGE May 16, 2009 If President Obama nominates Judge Diane P. Wood to the Supreme Court, conservatives plan to attack her as an “outspoken” supporter of “abortion, including partial-birth abortion.” If he nominates Judge Sonia Sotomayor, they plan to accuse her of being “willing […]
Kristol: ‘Dick Cheney, Most Valuable Republican.’ ThinkProgressMay 16, 2009 While many Republicans are trying to ditch the legacy of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, one pundit is still clinging to the previous administration. In a column today titled “Don’t Wince. Fight!,” Bill Kristol offers a full-throated defense of Cheney, writing that Republicans cringing at […]
In a recent post, I referenced an interview in Rolling Stone of Seymour Hersh, entitled Cheney’s Nemesis. Hersh is a fascinating character – always in the eye of a storm, his own or the storm of others [the linked Wikipedia article catalogs some of those storms and is a fascinating short read]. I think of […]
Greed’s Saving Graces By George F. Will May 17, 2009 Greed, we are agreed, is bad. It also is strange. It has long been included among the Seven Deadly Sins, which suggests that it is a universal and perennial facet of the human fabric. But the quantity of it, at least in America, responds to […]
Congress and Waterboarding Nancy Pelosi was an accomplice to ‘torture’ Wall Street Journal May 15, 2009 By KARL ROVE Someone important appears not to be telling the truth about her knowledge of the CIA’s use of enhanced interrogation techniques (EITs). That someone is Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. The political persecution of Bush administration […]
Speaker’s Comments Raise Detainee Debate to New Level By Dan Balz Washington Post May 15, 2009 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi‘s extraordinary accusation that the Bush administration lied to Congress about the use of harsh interrogation techniques dramatically raised the stakes in the growing debate over the Bush administration’s anti-terrorism policies even as it raised some […]
I don’t seem to be able to stop posting articles about the recent developments about our Torture policy… We tortured to justify war Dick Cheney keeps saying "enhanced interrogation" was used to stop imminent attacks, but evidence is mounting that the real reason was to invent evidence linking Saddam Hussein to al-Qaida. Salon By Joe […]
Cheney’s MAD Perrspectives May 13, 2009 Dick Cheney’s MAD, just not in the way you think. As Time, the AP and virtually every pundit across the political spectrum debate the meaning of Cheney’s ubiquity on your television screen, it may be an old Cold War theory which best explains his strategy. The former vice president […]