Excellent post by Glenn Greenwald on how conservatism and the GOP under Bush devolved into a cult of personality and how liberalism can avoid the same - and to a large extent already has, in that liberals are far more liable to criticize Obama than conservatives were to criticize Bush.
It’s interesting that one of the right’s […]

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You saw this, of course:
Former Gov. Tom Ridge says in a new book that he was pressured by some in the Bush administration to raise the nation’s terror alert on the eve of the 2004 elections.
Ridge, the first secretary of Homeland Security, makes the statement in his memoir, “The Test of Our Times: America Under […]

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You know, it’s not like we’re looking to come out with the partisan fists swinging. But then I log into my e-mail and one of the first messages is this:
Maybe the chosen one isn’t as beloved as you and your fellow kool-aid drinkers would like everyone to believe. Of course, that added emissions burden he’s throwing onto […]

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Cry me a frickin’ river:
On the plane, no longer Air Force One but now Special Air Mission 28000, they talked about the speech. George W. Bush, the former president, was heading home to Texas with his inner circle, having just left the Capitol, where his successor first thanked him for his service and then proceeded […]

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A Louisiana newspaper offers up a mea culpa:
When Bush first ran for president, he was governor of our sister state, Texas. We examined his track record as governor and decided to support him for the presidency on the grounds that he was a good man, honest, truthful, and compassionate and a good leader.
We knew he […]

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A letter in the mail this morning:
Here is one of President Bush’s most important accomplishments. Because of the horrible war in the Middle East, missionaries were able to get in and begin planting churches. …
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According to the scrpitures we were put here on this earth to spread the “gospel.” President Bush has made this possible […]

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Media Matters catches the Wall Street Journal editorial page doing what it does:
A January 16 Wall Street Journal editorial falsely asserted that “[n]ot a single man, woman or child has been killed by terrorists on U.S. soil since the morning of September 11.” In fact, shortly after September 11, 2001, letters laced with anthrax were […]

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Discussing a Krauthammer column that basically tells us everything is just ducky in Iraq so long as Obama doesn’t screw it up, Sullivan writes:
The possibility, in short, that Iraq has lurched, via hundreds of thousands of deaths and trillions of American dollars, from an unstable, fractious tyranny hostile to Iran to an unstable, fractious, failed state friendly […]

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Yahoo! News headline:
Bush’s closing argument: Was anybody listening?

Nope.

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Say goodnight, Mr. President

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoC71Ffcgy0

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Billmon, excellent as always, on how the Cheney administration is about to be flushed down the memory hole:
You can see this in just about all of the transition coverage. Reporters (like the ones responsible for the journalistic abomination above) and columnists and pundits are busy cranking out the usual lame duck legacy stories, as if this […]

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We’ll get into this more in the vid later, but Gallup has a new poll out, final one for the Bush presidency, which shows Bush bumping to a 34 percent approval rating - better than Nixon or Harry Truman when they left office, tied with Carter.
At the same time, Bush’s disapproval rating is 61 percent […]

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Favorite moments from our unfavorite Leader.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w73dVVPRk0

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From ThinkProgress:
White House sends memo to Cabinet officials with talking points on Bush’s successful presidency.

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This would be Gail Collins, writing in the NY Times:
Thanksgiving is next week, and President Bush could make it a really special holiday by resigning.
Ouch.
Seriously. We have an economy that’s crashing and a vacuum at the top. Bush — who is currently on a trip to Peru to meet with Asian leaders who no longer […]

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Hat tip: CS
The Bush Era is coming to a close with a resounding thud, and the 25 percenters - led by the 25 percenters in chief - still fail to see what the other 75 percent of America sees:
Nearing the bitter end of eight ruinous years in office, President Bush still won’t acknowledge a single […]

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Wingers. I suppose so long as you’ve got the AM radio turned full up and Fox News on, you never do have to look reality in the face.

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I suppose that like a good pundit, I should punditize about Obama’s veep choice, whomever it might be. But the truth is I’m far more interested in what’s going on economically - in particular, the incredible surge last week of oil prices - falling today, down $1.99 per barrel as of this writing although traders […]

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Peggy Noonan, whom I seem to agree with more and more these days, weighs in on the McClellan business in a piece titled - as Bigby asked in a previous thread -  “But is it true?”:

The left, while embracing the book’s central assertions, will paint him as a weasel who belatedly ‘fessed up. They’re big on […]

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McClellan goes on Olbermann last night to talk about his book and says something destined to outrage the 28 pecenters, but which makes perfect, unfortunate sense for everyone else:
I think that you would need to take [the administration’s] comments [on Iran] very seriously and be skeptical.

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