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Memories

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

On this, the penultimate day of the year, it is only fitting that we look back and savor what we won’t be dealing with next year.

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George Bush and the pardon power

Friday, December 26, 2008

Might I direct the reader’s attention to the discussion over at Talking Points, particularly this post, about Bush’s attempt to “revoke” a pardon that he granted to a scam artist from Long Island. First let me confess that if not for my own laziness I would have written about this before. As soon as I […]

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Sock and Awe

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Try your hand at hitting the dirty dog with your shoe. My wife’s definitely not a video gamer, so it took her a while, but she got a kick when she finally got him. The first time I went I had to refresh before the game appeared. I got him twice on my first go […]

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Still fun to beat this dying horse

Sunday, December 21, 2008

This morning’s Times has a post mortem on one of George Bush’s many failures: the housing crisis. The Times credits Bush with genuinely wanting to increase home ownership. I refuse to do that, since I don’t think he’s ever actually wanted to improve the lives of ordinary people. He has done what needed to be […]

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Representative Nadler proposes amendment to limit the pardon power

Friday, December 5, 2008

Given the current political climate, overheated as it is, I have become reflexively averse to any suggestion to amend the Constitution. Most recent proposals have had as their objective abridgment of fundamental rights (anti-abortion, anti-gay). Some would represent truly horrible backward steps, such as the aforementioned. Some would simply be disgraceful stains on what is, […]

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Bush Revisionism begins

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Scott Ritter was one of the many who was right about the Iraq War from the start. As a former weapons inspector he had the credentials to venture an opinion about whether Saddam had WMDs. Ritter said he didn’t, and as a reward Ritter’s sanity was questioned. Having now been proven to be indisputably right, […]

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Meanwhile, under the radar

Monday, October 27, 2008

The Bush Administration has entered full destructo mode. They have only two months left to complete destruction of everything. Most of us think they’ve already succeeded admirably, but there’s more to be done. For instance: At the Bush administration’s direction, the Environmental Protection Agency is working on a new rule that would weaken pollution regulations […]

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Dubious Achievement Award

Monday, September 29, 2008

Bush is going to sweep the table. There will be not a single facet of American life that has improved in the time he has been president. The stock market closed today down for Bush’s term.

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Brilliant

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Who could have known? From this morning’s Times: “The last six months have made it abundantly clear that voluntary regulation does not work,” [SEC Chairman Cox} said in a statement. The program “was fundamentally flawed from the beginning, because investment banks could opt in or out of supervision voluntarily. The fact that investment bank holding […]

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Mere Gross Incompetence is not news

Thursday, September 18, 2008

While we are all concentrating on the coming Depression, an echo of times passed goes virtually unnoticed. While FEMA’s response to Ike is not the total disaster that was its response to Katrina, it has hardly reached genuine “heckuva job” levels. FEMA has avoided failure in some areas by essentially outsourcing its responsibilities to the […]

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