If I were a shareholder of a corporation and heard news that the corporation paid a CEO $14 million to be fired (this is what the Gap just did), my stock would instantly be sold. Sadly this is something we hear about more and more. Luckily we have a Democratically controlled Congress, and one Representative […]
Bush tonight: Victory will not look like the ones our fathers and grandfathers achieved. There will be no surrender ceremony on the deck of a battleship hmmm OK Well I guess that’s right. This picture is an aircraft carrier.
Jack shit that is, because Jack Abramoff, well CREW has found out a different story. Check out CREW’s blog for more!
TPM Brings us this gem: “A ‘surge’ or ‘targeted increase in U.S. troop strength’ or whatever the politicians want to call dispatching more combat troops to Iraq isn’t the answer. Adding more trainers and helping the Iraqis to help themselves, is. Sending more U.S. combat troops is simply sending more targets.” That is a quote […]
Last night when the news of his execution was made public, people started rejoicing. FOX News was giddy with the thought of video and pictures being published of the execution. True so much coverage was dedicated to this execution yesterday, including history lessons on hangings from CNN. It is amazing to see how the right […]
Funny that when Biden says something like this, he gets chastised by the wingnuts. It will of course be different when you got a 2008 GOP Presidential hopeful saying it: Republican presidential hopeful Sam Brownback said Thursday that Iraq must achieve a “political equilibrium” even if means partitioning the country along ethnic lines. “I’m saying, […]
TPMmuckraker: Ah, the Man with the Iron Mustache is leaving the international arena — but not before attempting a thoroughly embarrassing and wholly unsympathetic maneuver. Less than two weeks before the White House announced his resignation, Ambassador John Bolton’s U.N. mission blocked an effort to celebrate the end of slavery in our hemisphere. I thought […]
CNN has just reported that Bush accepted the resignation of John Bolton at the end of the year (when his recess appointment expires). That means the next ambassador to the U.N. will have to face a Democratic confirmation. I wonder if the Republicans will try to filibuster.
Just now breaking – the man behind coin-gate here in Ohio, and former Bush fundraiser, has been sentenced to at least 18 years in prison for cheating Ohio tax-payers out of millions. Of course Bush will most likely pardon him before he leaves office. The crime family must stick together!