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A Sudden Conversion to Fiscal Conservatism

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 03.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bailout, Cheney, Obama, Republicans, Stimulus Pa, Democrats, Tarp, House Republicans, Bush, John Lennon, Money, Stimulus Package, Economy, Economic Crisis, Us Economic Crisis, Politics News

Republicans are arguing about what dishes to set out on the Titanic instead of lowering the life boats.

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Exit Stage Right: Cheney Wheels Off to Thunderous Applause

Randall Amster | Posted 03.02.2009 | Comedy

Read More: James Bond, Bob Roberts, It's a Wonderful Life, Obama Inauguration, Cheney, Legacy, Batman, Vice President Cheney, Dick Cheney, Dr. Strangelove, Comedy News

Yes folks, that was Dick Cheney, born-again ADA activist and differently-abled former dictator, heading off to an (un)disclosed location for the final time.

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Psychotic Reaction

Michael Sigman | Posted 03.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Donald Rumsfeld, Iraq War, Psychiatry, Neurotic, Obama, Cheney, Bush, George Bush, Crazy, Budget, Crazy Bosses, Colleagues, Living News

"Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and...

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Prosecutions -- A Reply to my Critics

Howard Schweber | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: War Crimes, Prosecutions, Crimes, Rule of Law, Torture, Cheney, Bush, Politics News

Many people asked a version of the following question: "if we don't have prosecutions of Bush officials, what will stop people next time?," often with a reference to the Nixon or Iran-Contra pardons.

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The Case Against Prosecutions

Howard Schweber | Posted 02.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Prosecutions, Obama, Torture, Cheney, Bush, George Bush, Bush Prosecutions, Bush Administration Prosecutions, Politics News

There are two reasons prosecuting the Bush administration is a bad idea, one that has to do with the nature of the alleged crimes and the other that has to do with the consequences for the country.

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Keeping Anderson Cooper Honest: How CNN and the Media Flubbed Obama's 2nd Swearing In

Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 02.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Pat Buchanan, Rush Limbaugh, Social Responsibility, Lobbyists, Morning Joe, Cheney, Media, Anderson Cooper, Fox, Anderson Cooper 360, Fourth Estate, Missing White House Emails, Blogs, Obama Swearing In, Bush Legacy, Cnn, Constitution, Chris Wallace, Journalists, Obama Innauguration, Reporters, Breaking Politics News, Oath of Office, Ed Henry, Obama Transparency, John Roberts Flub, Bill Plante, Cbs, Journalism, Television, CBS News, Media News

The same media that is creating a negative impression of President Obama is saying little about the outgoing administration's widespread destruction of official government records.

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Cheney: "I Disagree With President Bush's Decision" On Libby

Stuart Whatley | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Libby Pardon, Scooter Libby Pardon, Cheney, Bush Pardons, George Bush Pardons, Scooter Libby Valerie Plame, Vice President Cheney, Scooter Libby, Dick Cheney, I Lewis Scooter Libby, Politics News

In an interview with his biographer Stephen Hayes, published by the Weekly Standard, former Vice President Cheney laments Bush's decision not to pardo...

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Reunited at Last

Howard Gewirtz | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hat, Cheney, Political Humor, Inauguration, Cartoons, Political Cartoon, Satire, Political Satire, Humor Politics, Cartoon, Political Cartoons, Politics News

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13 Ways of Looking at the Inauguration

Bill Katovsky | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics

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Certainly, we have seen digitally enlarged crowds this size in blockbuster films, but there was an amazing, surreal quality in seeing that many people gathered on the Washington Mall.

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Poetry & Politicians: For Better or Verse

Margo Hammond and Ellen Heltzel | Posted 02.16.2009 | Style

Read More: Blagojevich, Mark Foley, Mitch McConnell, Clinton, John Boehner, Politicians, Palin, Dobson, Cheney, Mccain, Larry Craig, Richardson, Jeb Bush, Poetry, Bush, Rove, Portland Oregon, Style News

For Jeb Bush: "They fuck you up, your mum and dad./They may not mean to, but they do./They fill you with the faults they had/And add some extra, just for you."

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Cheney Dozes Off At Bush Farewell Speech

Stuart Whatley | Posted 02.16.2009 | Politics

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Vice President Cheney may have dozed off during Bush's apparently somniferous farewell speech last night. Courtesy of Examiner.com: As Bush said, "B...

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Cheney: "Can't Claim Perfection" on No-Torture Policy

ABC News | Posted 02.15.2009 | Politics

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Responding to accusations from a top Pentagon official that at least one Guantanamo detainee was tortured during interrogation, Vice President Dick Ch...

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Support John Conyers' Truth Commission

Chris Weigant | Posted 02.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Eavesdropping, Detention, Tammy Baldwin, Truth Commission, Cheney, Surveillance, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, William Delahunt, Jerrold Nadler, Bush, Dick Cheney, Conyers, Intelligence, Kidnapping, Rick Boucher, Hank Johnson, Janice Schakowsky, Report, Enhanced Interrogation, War Powers, John Conyers, Judiciary Committee, Steve Cohen, Valerie Plame Wilson, House, Interrogation, Warrantless Wiretapping, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Imperial Presidency, Rendition, Prisoner, Sheila Jackson Lee, Luis Gutierrez, Bobby Scott, Blue Ribbon Commission, Bush Administration, Chris Weigant, War Powers Commission, Co-Sponsor, Wiretapping, Torture, Extraordinary Rendition, hr104, Representative, Politics News

Are you frustrated by all the "we need to look forward, not backward" language from Barack Obama and other Democratic leaders? Well, now you can do something about it.

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They Kept Us Safe -- or Did They?

Harry Shearer | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: 9/11, Bill Clinton, Cheney, Bush, Uss Cole, Terrorism, World Trade Center, Bush Legacy, Politics News

So, a question for conservatives: did the Clinton administration, like the Bush administration, do a fine job of protecting the country once it had undergone one al-Qaeda attack?

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Is the Problem with Finger-Pointing That We're Using the Wrong Finger?

Harry Shearer | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama, Geithner, George W. Bush, Cheney, Taxes, Obama Transition, Tim Geithner, Politics News

Help me. I'm confused. Are we supposed to ignore the past, forget finger-pointing and blame-gaming and look forward? Or are we supposed to demand accountability? Or some third option?

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Getting Ready for the Bush Pardons

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics

It would be wrong for an outgoing President who presided over disastrous... enterprises like the torture program to unilaterally slam the door on all future investigations into that conduct.

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Palace intrigue: Obama and his Justice Department are about to inherit the dysfunctional family problems of a Kazakh dictator

Aram Roston | Posted 02.13.2009 | World

Read More: Oil, Barack Obama Foreign Policy, Kazakhstan, Hillary Clinton, Borat, Cheney, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Aram Roston, Sacha Baron Cohen, World News

Rakhat Aliyev has had many careers. The 47 year old Kazakh former intelligence chief and self-proclaimed opposition leader has been a medical doctor, ...

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Dear Dick: We Have Received Your Resume...

Jamie Malanowski | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Rice, Gonzales, Rumsfeld, Tenet, Cheney, Bush, Humor, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, George Tenet, Political Humor, Political Satire, Humor Politics, Politics News

Dear Dr. Rice: This is to confirm that you will be teaching a course at The Learning Annex on Saturday, January 31st, to be entitled "Power Enabling: Smart Women, Costly Blunders.''

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A New Year and a New Environment

Michael DeJong | Posted 01.28.2009 | Green

Read More: George Bush, Low-Flow Showerheads, Car Pool, Falwell, Fuel-Efficient, Faucet Aerators, Big Tent, Cheney, Bureau of Land Management, Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs, Auld Lang Syne, Legacy, Endangered Species Act, Resolutions, Patriotic, Recycling, The Decider, Compassionate Conservatism, New Year’s Eve, Tap Water, Public Transportation, Environment, Rove, Junior, New Year's Commentary, Green News

Little measures -- recycling, driving a most fuel-efficient car, walking, biking or using public transit, and installing low-flow shower heads -- can make a huge difference.

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A New American Boxing Day Tradition

Justin Callaway | Posted 01.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Vacation, Pardon, Foreclosure, Cheney, Saturnalia, Legislative Role-Reversal, Preemptive Pardon, Federal Health Benefits, Boxing Day, Housing Crisis, Bush, Toussie, Plutocracy, Politics News

A proposal: members of Congress must find a family in the "final throes" of foreclosure within their electoral base and switch places with them for the remainder of their luxuriously long winter vacations.

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Outrage Over Blagojevich? Really?

Aram Khayatpour | Posted 01.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Indictment, Blagojevich Indictment, Rod Blagojevich, Cheney, Torture, Bush, Outrage, Blagojevich Scandal, Blagojevich Corruption, Media News

Alright, what he did was bad. But why is there all this concern over little old Rod Blagojevich while Bush, Cheney, and his cronies still sit in the White House, untouched?

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Kenneth Coles & Grassy Knolls: The Sole Assasination of a Bush Legacy

Barry Michael Cooper | Posted 01.23.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: George Bush, Shoes Thrown at Bush, George Bush Legacy, Cheney, Man Throws Shoes at Bush, Denzel Washington, Bush Shoe Throw, George Bush Shoe Throw, Training Day, Throwing Shoes, Entertainment News

Though President Bush adroitly ducked the projectile shoe, his legacy was most assuredly assassinated by a pair of oxfords.

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Dick Cheney: Unplugged and Unglued

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 01.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Vice President, Dictatorship, Constitution, Bush, Cheney, Imperial Presidency, Politics News

During a Fox News segment, Cheney calmly claimed that the president is not bound by law during times of war. Allow that thought to sink in for a moment before continuing your day.

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The Deep Hypocrisy of Republican Rule

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Republican Hypocrisy, Gonzales, Criminality, Republicans, DOJ Corruption, Brownie, Cheney, Bush, Goodling, Politics News

Standing before the American Enterprise Institute, Bush made another embarrassing attempt to shore up his failed legacy, pleading futilely that he is not the 21st century's Herbert Hoover.

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Dick Cheney, Interior Decorator

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 01.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Warrantless Wiretapping, Vice President, Attorneys General, Wiretapping, Habeas Corpus, Doj, Torture, Bush, Cheney, Politics News

It was, perhaps, a dark and rainy day. Through a clearing in the forest the King's horsemen came upon the menacing silhouette of a distant medieval f...

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