Sure – we can fork out all this money: The U.S. government already has a courthouse at Guantanamo Bay, but the Pentagon isn’t satisfied, CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson reports. It plans to spend $100 million of your tax dollars to build a huge new facility just down the hill. “This is very expensive for […]
This is from today’s confirmation hearings for Gates: Robert Gates, U.S. President George W. Bush’s choice to take over the Pentagon, said on Tuesday America was not winning in Iraq and warned the Middle East could explode into violence. Appearing at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Gates said Bush wanted him […]
Bob Geiger: Another unfortunate milestone in the reign of George W. Bush and the recently-deposed Republican Congress was reached on Saturday when the federal minimum wage set a new record for the longest period without a raise since its establishment in 1938. As of December 2, the $5.15-per-hour wage rate has remained unchanged for nine […]
And so it begins: Lawmakers and cabinet ministers loyal to anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr have suspended participation in parliament and the government to protest Prime minister Nouri al-Maliki’s summit with U.S. President George W. Bush. A statement issued Wednesday by the 30 lawmakers and five Cabinet ministers said their action was necessary because the meeting […]
On Michelle Malkin’s other blog “Hot Air”, this is appearing on the front page: Well here is how good that is: President George W. Bush will make a push to get confirmation for John Bolton as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations before power in Congress shifts to the Democrats, the White House said on […]
I just threw this together, but you get the idea. Perhaps the DNC can getting something close to it on the air before the elections. Update: Kerry has now apologized for his comments: Democratic Sen. John Kerry said on Wednesday he was sorry about a “botched joke” that drew election-year fire from President George W. […]
Kenneth Blackwell’s gubernatorial race is so damaged that the African Republican is now out trying to court the white supremacist vote: The man who stole the 2004 election for George W. Bush — Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell — has posted a picture of himself addressing the white supremacist ultra-right Council for National […]
Via Think Progress: “Why should I care about North Korea?”In State of Denial, Bob Woodward recounts a conversation between then-Gov. George W. Bush and then-Saudi ambassador to the U.S. Prince Bandar, in which Bush wonders why he should care about North Korea. “I get these briefings on all parts of the world,” Bush said, “and […]
From Reuters An intelligence report showing an upsurge in Islamic militancy put the White House on the defensive on Wednesday in an election-year debate over whether President George W. Bush has made America safer. In a second blow to the president, a new U.N. report said the Iraq war was providing al Qaeda with a […]
Here is the shape of campaigning with only a few weeks left before the mid-term elections: President Bush urged Congress Thursday to give him “additional authority” to continue his administration’s warrantless eavesdropping program. The speech was his latest effort in several days to mark the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks by framing […]