Saying Goodbye To Bush & Cheney

Obama’s Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel bids Bush and Cheney adieu at inaugural ceremony

Bush Bids Adieu (Update)

Bush’s legacy: Food for the Crows In my post last week titled Bush Bids Adieu, I wrote: Let me address a point I haven’t heard discussed yet. Seems I recall that al-Qaeda statement that their post-9/11 strategy was twofold: to hurt the US where it would count the most, its economy; and, after Bush’s invasion of Iraq, to punish its …

8 Years of Bush In 8 Minutes

Every time I catch myself wondering How did we ever survive 8 years of this incurious, incompetent, and destructive idiot, I have to remind myself– not so fast. There’s a little something called inertia in the universe that is as applicable to the realm of human karma as it is to gravity and physics. As the economic crisis continues to …

Bush Bids Adieu

Tuesday, George W. Bush held his final cabinet meeting where he said: I tell people I leave town with a great sense of accomplishment and my head held high. The problem with that is, well, obvious. George W. Bush in a rare moment of introspection As the worst president in US history winds down his delusional legacy protection tour, he …

Animating Ayn Rand’s Rotting Corpse

Young Alan Greenspan posing for Atlas Shrugged in Ayn Rand’s apartment Digby explores the Bizzaroworld economic logic and the psychology of greed that inflicts the wingnut universe, rooted as it is in Ayn Rand‘s classic 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged here and here. Ronald Reagan,  a key enabler of the Bush Depression, implicitly adopted Rand’s disdain for government’s role in fostering …

Joe the Reporter (Update 2)

Joe the PlumberWar Reporter, checking in from Israel, says reporters shouldn’t be reporting on war: “I’ll be honest with you. I don’t think journalists should be anywhere allowed war. I mean, you guys report where our troops are at. You report what’s happening day to day. You make a big deal out of it. I-I think it’s asinine. You know, …

Bush’s Economic Legacy Continues To Grow

Republicans leave another mess for Dems to clean up December’s unemployment numbers are out, showing another 524,000 jobs lost, the largest monthly drop since the last Bush left office, in January 1993. This brings the official rate to 7.2% from last month’s 6.8%– 11 million people. This doesn’t count the number of underemployed or those who’ve given up searching for …