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Thursday January 25, 2007 · 8:12 PM PST

2007/01/25 · 20:12

Bush's reported quote delivered in the Pentagon “What I want to hear from you is how we’re going to win not how we’re going to leave.” has been widely written and blogged about but I haven't heard anyone address the real horror of this quote.

The real problem with this is not that Bush is single-mindedly pursuing a "win" without regard for what's actually happening or what might be achievable. The real problem with this quote is not that Bush is (again) refusing to hear news he doesn't want to hear and bullying those that are supposed to give him honest council. The real problem with this quote is not even that Bush seems suddenly concerned with how the war is going suddenly after 3+ years of steadily escalating violence, anarchy, bloodshed and death. The real problem with Bush saying this is the fact that he is in completely the wrong f-ing building!

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Sunday January 07, 2007 · 1:03 PM PST

2007/01/07 · 13:03

The recent egregious signing statement by George W Bush claiming the right to open and read the mail of Americans has finally pushed the issue of signing statements into the main stream media and into the realm of public discourse. This issue is actually a good starting point to mount an attack on the idea of signing statements because people feel fundamentally protective of their mail. And now that the majority of the electorate seems to have shaken off their knee-jerk immediate fear reaction whenever the words terrorism or 9-11 are invoked the time appears to be right too. It seems that everyone who understands the issue of signing statements - and is outside the Presidential cabal - agrees that they are a terrible idea but I feel that the extent of the dangers that signing statements haven't yet been fully discussed.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer or a Constitutional scholar but I think I can see what's coming down the road if we don't find a way to drag the entire idea of signing statements into the light and kill them once and for all.

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Wednesday September 13, 2006 · 6:32 AM PDT

2006/09/13 · 06:32

What follows is Bush's speech from the other night with the subtext tags turned on. Bush's mind is a scary place full of cursing and evil thoughts... but you knew that already didn't you?

Bush's bullshit is bold and stark just like in real life.
My apologies to the Scotty Show for the blatant rip off of the technique. Thanks.

The full text of Bush's speech is included, but since I paid for this crap to be written and shoved back at me with my tax dollars I consider myself to be the (shamefaced) owner of that text.

Follow the jump with caution. Read More

My Letter to Feinstein re:Hayden

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Saturday May 13, 2006 · 4:21 PM PDT

2006/05/13 · 16:21

For anyone who missed it Senator Feinstein's early words about General Hayden's nomination to the CIA made it sound like she had already decided to confirm him. Her office here in San Diego insisted that this was NOT the case and read me her statement about him. After I started this letter the phone record mining news broke and her tone became much less positive. While this didn't change the content of my letter it did make me hope that she would be more open to idea of contentious opposition.

I think I will modify the contents slightly and send it to the other Democrats on the committee. I'm sure this will condensed down "against" by some aide and added to spreadsheet somewhere but it made me feel better to write it. Read More

Letter to the Editor

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Monday December 26, 2005 · 12:55 PM PST

2005/12/26 · 12:55

We in San Diego are unfortunate enough to have the newspaper equivalent of Fox News in our own San Diego Union. This is the paper that until recently featured a "Prayer of the Day" on its editorial page.

Needless to say they cheerlead whatever the Bush administration says or does especially on Iraq. Now I normally just ignore this bird cage liner but I was interested to see what they would do with the spying case so this weekend I turned to the "Insight" section (who says irony is dead?) and read the editorial of head cheerleader Robert Cadwell.

My response to this craziness after the jump.... Read More

It's so on. [Strong Content Warning]

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Tuesday December 20, 2005 · 1:51 PM PST

2005/12/20 · 13:51

[Notes: Strong language and graphics content follows on the flip. Thanks to other Kossacks who provided several of the linked articles.]

In case anyone has been wondering when the line in the sand was going to be drawn - this is it. This isn't an abstract argument about the morality of a war of choice or the complex issue of a conspiracy to out of a covert CIA agent or the treatment of brown children in our custody on the other side of the world somewhere.

This is about a very simple question: "Are we under martial law?" Read More

How to get a question to Scott McCellan?

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Tuesday November 01, 2005 · 8:00 AM PST

2005/11/01 · 08:00

Not being a homosexual wanna-be escort who lies about his military history I find I don't have the casual, unfettered access to the White House press briefings I'd like.

But seriously, is there anyone in the White House press corps who might take question suggestions via email? Is there any other way to get questions into the briefing that I might not be aware of?

My question ideas forthcoming... Read More

Bad Boys, Bad Boys - Whacha you gonna do?

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Tuesday October 25, 2005 · 6:47 PM PDT

2005/10/25 · 18:47

So tomorrow may be Fitzmas and indictments will fall from the heavens and peace and justice will return to the world, right?

Don't count on it. The neo-cons are not cowed and they are not going gentle into that dark night. Don't believe me? Check out Macabee's diary about how Cheney specifically wants the explicit right to torture prisoners.

They have been driving this administration like a stolen SUV since they got their hands on it. And just like an episode of Cops now we're in full-on hot pursuit mode complete with lights and sirens.

More Cops after this! Read More

WaPo Finally has _something_ on DSM...

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Friday June 17, 2005 · 12:44 PM PDT

2005/06/17 · 12:44

We all know that the Washington Post has employed a number of dubious arguments to avoid looking at the significance of the Downing Street leaked documents and consequently their complicity in aiding the rush to war in Iraq. But they HAVE published a transcript of a frank on-line discussion of the documents with Michael Smith - the author of the London Sunday Times article that broke the story.

How frank?

There are number of people asking about fixed and its meaning. This is a real joke. I do not know anyone in the UK who took it to mean anything other than fixed as in fixed a race, fixed an election, fixed the intelligence. If you fix something, you make it the way you want it.

Link after the jump... Read More

[Breaking] National ID Card a Reality?

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Friday May 06, 2005 · 12:29 PM PDT

2005/05/06 · 12:29

News.com is running an article that says the US House attached a version of their "Real ID" act to the $82 billion dollar spending bill for Iraq. The act allows Homeland Security to dictate the minimum requirements for state driver's licenses and IDs. Read More

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My Letter to Feinstein re:Hayden

Letter to the Editor

It's so on. [Strong Content Warning]

How to get a question to Scott McCellan?

Bad Boys, Bad Boys - Whacha you gonna do?

WaPo Finally has _something_ on DSM...

[Breaking] National ID Card a Reality?