Sunday Roundup
This week's confirmation hearing of Hillary Clinton was a promising sign that Team Obama will mean a return to prepared, knowledgeable, fact-based leadership. Maybe Justin Timberlake can do a remix for the Inauguration: Bringing CompetenceBack! The one glitch belonged to Timothy Geithner. Four words, Tim: H & R Block. Elsewhere, David Vitter's lone anti-Hillary vote appeared to be a desperate ploy to gain notoriety for something other than his history with hookers. And George Bush and Dick Cheney smirked and snarled their way through their final days, rewriting the history of Katrina (W), and expressing long-held aggravation that the New York Times won a Pulitzer for exposing the administration's warrantless wiretapping program (Dick). They clearly are devotees of the Erich Segal school of leadership: running the country into the ground means never having to say you're sorry.
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Ding Dong the Witch is Dead is a song that keeps going through my mind. As I am tired of watching the news on what is going to happen Tuesday. I have been watching Comedy Central. And I have come to the realization that if we the people even wanted to make a new U.N. we should use these Guys and Gals. They all have a point, They all make sense, cause we respond with laughter. Just a suggestion. Anyway, the future is looking GOOD !!! Thank the powers that be. We all realized we needed change and we did.
The nightmare has come to an end. It is a great sigh of relief!
Yes, that's absolutely correct. Despite president-elect Obama's position about looking forward NOT looking back, I believe that a special prosecutor should be appointed to investigate Dick Cheney,Rumsfeld, Rove, Libby et al . Bush could be forgiven b/c he was blindsided by them and was a weak president . Vice presindent elect Biden hit the nail on the head by proclaiming Cheney to be the most dangerous veep ever. Do not let Dick Cheney get away with the fact that 4000 of our young men and women died based on manipulated faulty intelligence by him.
He is a bold faced liar.....
Watch for the flood of blanket pardons stream in from this thug that pardons anything and everything.
Leadership has been so enfeebled that economic issues of this emerging depression appear still to be beyond the command of emerging personalities. Until the direction the President is going to take our middle Americans is decided, I am not making any bets on the future. The issue still is who is going to run this country? The financial interests? The manufacturing interests? The national interests vested in the Constitution?
Digging out of the Bush rubble will take years and much work. I'm not sure Geithner is the right man, there is something deeply troubling about his tax story. Obama should show that there are no special favors and appoint a different Sec Treasury, Sheila Bair?
"never having to say you're sorry", when you are sorry that it needn't be said. Bush league.
You know, I hate to say it, but...a LOT of people voted this clown in as President not once, but twice (although I'm sure the results of the first election will forever be argued). If the rest of America and I didn't have to suffer through all of the Bush administrations illegal activities and mistakes, I would almost want to laugh and say "I told you so!!"
Quite so. The fault, dear Americans, lies not in Bush, but in ourselves.
Bush et al. does need to be tried for War Crimes, but NOT by the United States. That would make it a political event. They need to be indicted by the World Court in The Hague, and tried by the WORLD for Crimes Against Humanity. That would put all future Presidents and their staff on notice: No Presidential Pardon can protect them. War Crimes are WAR CRIMES!!
Absolutely correct! However, it is imperative that a Special Investigator be appointed to oversee the timely collection of facts, and to place this new admistration on the side of responsibility and cooperation.
Bush and his supporters want an alternate timeline. The Bush years, by their reckoning, do not begin with his inauguration, but with the aftermath of 9/11 – and the fact that there were no more attacks on “the homeland.” (Let’s all promise never again to use this horrid term when “America” and “The United States” will suffice!!! Please would-be President Obama strike this word from departments’ names, speeches, etc.!!!)
Bush offered reassurance to a frightened American public using the bully pulpit of the Presidency. Wait a minute! What about those pesky memos and briefings before 9/11 that were ignored? What about following through on a war with Iraq (conceived before 9/11) and continually linking 9/11 to Saddam Hussein? What about all those Constitutionally dubious policies and actions that “kept us safe?” What about all those unqualified cronies in positions of power? What about tax-cuts amid a very expensive pair of wars? What about sweetheart deals for Halliburton, Blackwater, etc. paid for by American taxpayers? What about gutting regulations that help explain where we are right now? What about the politicization of everything (Justice Department, science, state and local elections).
As for Obama, I’ll start forming my opinions when he is President of the United States. And I do the same for George W. Bush – from his inauguration forward, not in a timeline of his liking.
Pointed, witty, and wide-ranging post, Ms. Huffington -- as always!
Regardless of the thinly veiled attempt at rehabilitating and revising the two Bush terms by "W," Cheney, and others, there should be pushback (and cat-calls) when Presidents (and their supporters) ask for credit for good things that took place on their watch while blaming setbacks on previous administrations and “unforeseen events.”
Bush was the worst President.
Right. let's spend even more money getting Bush investigated. That's all the Dems want to do, is point fingers. How about concentrating on economy or something really inportant like National Security.
Of course, why spend anytime on something as trivial as torture- a meaningless little WAR CRIME, or even illegal spying on your own citizens. The GOP goes after Clinton for lying about oral sex and the dems shouldn't be investigating Bush for the most serious crimes he can commit? Come on grow up. Let's have some parity here.
You sir, win.
Babyteeth seems to miss the fact that the fingers have already been pointed long ago. Whistles have been blown repeatedly. If we don't hold them accountable, it only opens the door for future offenders to look back and say "if it was okay then, its okay now."
And I will have to reiterate your point about the millions spent investigating perjury about his sex-life. It was indeed perjury, but it is laughable compared to war crimes.
Umm, recently the tendency runs toward moving forward, not wasting money. Actually, all but 22% of America is 'pointing fingers' at Bush/Cheney - now, they can't ALL be Dems. Are you in that top 1%?
We multitask, so can they. It's all important. gw and his assoc do not need to be repeated and that is the only assurance it won't...
You mean like the millions spent investigating Clinton that amounted to nothing, not to mention the 'gotcha' game regarding private behavior that ultimately led to his impeachment?
Thank you Arianna - loved the Erich Segal reference!
i hate to say it but anything beside Mr Bush and his cronies would be better.
and i mean anything like even a group of barnyard animals,
but in all honesty i think the current group chosen by the people for the people should probably be OK
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And auld lang syne?
The resounding answer is yes! Happy New Year, Arianna and everyone else! May this year be better than the last eight. Peace and love always
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