No more secrets! On his first day in office, President Obama put former president Bush on notice. His administration just released an executive order that will make it difficult for Bush to shield his White House records–and those of former Vice President Dick Cheney–from public scrutiny by invoking the doctrine of executive privilege. Shortly after […]
Lou Dobbs has been foaming at the mouth nonstop over former border agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean, who shot a Mexican drug smuggler in the buttocks and were convicted and imprisoned for it. Well Bush fed the base a little bit of out-going meat today: On his last full day in office, President […]
Oh this is just a gem: Rove, a former top White House adviser to President Bush, said on Fox News, “[Obama] should have, right from the beginning, been more forthcoming.” The same Karl Rove who insisted the President never had to disclose anything – rather it was on the outing of a CIA agent, lying […]
Ok I am impressed: Melody Barnes, Domestic Policy Council served as chief counsel to Senator Ted Kennedy on the Judiciary Committee from 1985 to 1993. Want to get an idea of how progressive she is? Read this: In January of 2007, prior to President Bush’s state of the union address, Barnes wrote this essay for […]
This is what happens when you have a President coming into office that understands the Constitution and doesn’t treat it like a piece of toilet paper: Transition advisers to President-elect Barack Obama have compiled a list of about 200 Bush administration actions and executive orders that could be swiftly undone to reverse White House policies […]
This is change, we need. Actually it isn’t as much change as it is undoing the damage of the Bush years: The Food and Drug Administration, bedeviled by a salmonella outbreak and tainted medicine from China, is likely to monitor imports and fresh produce more closely under an Obama administration. With President Bush no longer […]
Last week Bush made an unprecedented request for the Department of Justice to investigate Ohio voter registrations. Something like this has never been done so close to an election. Well now it looks like the DOJ is ignoring Bush: The Department of Justice will not require Ohio to disclose the names of voters whose registration […]
In an upcoming piece on McCain, New York Times Magazine reporter Robert Draper gives us this little insight into the whole Palin pick: Having interviewed several of the Senator’s chief aides, Draper details the process by which McCain ultimately chose his running mate (New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg was surprisingly high on the list). […]
Following up on what I said in my previous post, something else has come to mind. John McCain is seeing a lot of Republicans in Congress treat him like Bush. That is to say they don’t want to be seen with him. Add to that the fact McCain always talks about not being voted “miss […]
The Boston Globe questions McCain’s constant chastising of Middle East adversaries by saying they don’t embrace our “Judea-christian values”: At the end of a long list of reasons to be suspicious of the Iranians, McCain declared: “And they sure don’t share our Judeo-Christian values.” It seemed at the time to be an odd thing to […]