Shortly after Vice President Joe Biden went off message on The Today Show this morning, he was called into President Obama‘s office. Also present was a nurse, an anesthesiologist, and a doctor threading a long, sharp needle with some bright red, thick thread. “Have a seat, Joe” said the president, gesturing towards a dental chair in front of the medical …
Well, the hits keep on coming. Michelle Bachmann on the suspicious re-emergence of swine flu “under another Democratic president”: “I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out then under another Democrat president Jimmy Carter,” said Bachmann. “And I’m not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it’s an interesting coincidence.” …
Geithner & Summers manning the oars after Bush decided to empty the boat’s bilges by drilling a hole in its bottom Bush sinks the economic ship of state. Obama launches the life rafts, piloted by Wall Street insiders Timmeh Geithner and Larry Summers. But the sharks (hedge funds, private equity firms) are circling and there’s lots of stormy weather ahead. …
Newt Gingrich as the avenging Sumerian god, Gozer the Traveler In their devastating November 4th defeat at the hands of an inexperienced, junior senator from Illinois, the Rethuglicans are in desperate search of a leader, someone that can match the intelligence, boldness, charm, and overwhelming popularity of Barack Hussein Obama. While their own humiliated presidential candidate, the anachronistic John McCain …
A Zelikow 9/11 Commission narrative brainstorming session In addition to the Cheney-Bush Administration‘s use of false confessions to help sell the Iraq War, we must now add that these same “enhanced interrogation techniques” (originally developed by the Chicoms during the Korean War for propaganda purposes) were crucial in the writing of the 9/11 Commission Report as well. We begin with …
Demonstrating an “enhanced interrogation technique” In 1999, Bush‘s family biographer, Mickey Herskowitz, reports that W. told him he was intent on invading Iraq, saying that his status as a war time president would give him enough political capital to push through his conservative domestic agenda. (That would include the privatization of social security whose blood rich corpse would be served …
Judge Bybee wearing missing part of his judge’s robe The NY Times has an editorial today calling for the impeachment of Judge Jay “Dungeon Master” ByBee: To read the four newly released memos on prisoner interrogation written by George W. Bush’s Justice Department is to take a journey into depravity. Their language is the precise bureaucratese favored by dungeon masters …
