Comrade Bush Nationalizes Financial Sector

Good afternoon, glorious working people of the United Socialist Republic of America.
That’s right, the party of “small government”, the party that calls us liberals “socialists”, the party that hates the idea of public schools, libraries, police, fire fighters, and will stop at nothing to prevent universal medical care will leave the White House in January [...]

Democrats Amazed to Find Their Testicles

I’m as surprised as you are, but the Democrats apparently grew some balls during this financial crisis:
House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) angrily accused House Republicans — with the tacit support of Republican presidential candidate John McCain — of crafting an alternative to undercut Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.
Both McCain and his Democrat rival, [...]

McCain Confirms He’d Rather Kill the Economy than Lose an Election

Remember When Obama Tried to Delay Iraq Pullout?

Remember when the New York Post, a bastion of credibility /snark, reported that Senator Obama attempted to convince Iraqis to delay American redeployment for his own political benefit?
Like every thing else associated with Rupert Murdoch, that was a fucking lie.
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Bush Wants All Your Money

CHARLOTTE DOUGLAS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT –
Sec. 8. Review: Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency.
If you think the $700 Billion Big-Business Blank Check Bailout Bill is a good idea, check out [...]

Bush wants $700 Billion to Nationalize Mortgage Industry.

Where is the money coming from? And isn’t this the kind of thing Bush has criticized Hugo Chavez for?
In the video I linked yesterday, Chris Hayes of The Nation discussed Republicans being all about handouts when giant corporations need them, but when Democrats want to help people with things like healthcare, there is no money [...]

Perino: “Bush isn’t Sexist”; Bush disagrees.

Dana Perino, today:
I’ve been fortunate to work for a president who I consider to be the first gender blind president.
George Bush, July 2000:
I’m going to pick somebody who can be president of the United States and somebody with whom I can get along,” he told ABC’s “This Week” in a rare talk show appearance. [...]

Parallels

A Government spends seven years fighting a two front war. When it finds its coffers are empty, it creates a new economic policy. Cut taxes for the rich while placing the tax burden on the middle class.
Sound familiar? I’m not talking about the U.S. involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan or the Bush tax [...]

Lowered Expectations 101

Katrina who?

Tax Dollars at Work

Wait till Laura the Enquirer gets a hold of this.
“May-Treanor turned her back to the president, offering her bikinied rear for one of the traditional slaps that volleyball players frequently give each other.” Apparently, according to the AP, she then said, “Mr. President, want to?”
And instead of laughing at the sheer grotesque silliness of the [...]