Archive for the ‘Republican Crime Syndicate – aka the Bush Admin.’ Category
The Doodie Touch
So, you are wondering, how do you ruin a successful brand and embroil yourself in a pointless controversy that scares the shit out of your corporate sponsors and enrages both the left and right wing of the political spectrum, all while doing it in such a ham-handed and offensive manner that you manage to get [...]
February 3, 2012
· 
John Cole · 
96 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes, Republican Crime Syndicate - aka the Bush Admin., Teabagger Stupidity, Vagina Outrage
At Long Last, Someone Will Face a Waterboarding Related Prosecution
So much fail: The Justice Department on Monday charged a former Central Intelligence Agency officer with disclosing classified information to journalists about the capture and brutal interrogation of a suspected member of Al Qaeda, Abu Zubaydah — adding another chapter to the Obama administration’s unprecedented crackdown on leaks. In a criminal complaint filed on Monday, [...]
January 23, 2012
· John Cole · 189 Comments
Posted in: Republican Crime Syndicate - aka the Bush Admin., The Failed Obama Administration (Only Took Two Weeks), War on Terror aka GSAVE®
Regulatory disappearing act
DougJ linked to this NYTimes piece on for-profit colleges yesterday. Read the whole thing, or I’ll just give you my summary: the federal government attempted to regulate for-profit colleges, a huge army of lobbyists descended, and the federal government gutted the regulations. Arne Duncan isn’t quoted in the piece, but I’ve been reading up on [...]
December 13, 2011
· Kay · 50 Comments
Posted in: Democratic Cowardice, Democratic Stupidity, Good News For Conservatives, Grifters Gonna Grift, Kochsuckers, Our Awesome Meritocracy, Our Failed Media Experiment, Our Failed Political Establishment, Republican Crime Syndicate - aka the Bush Admin., Republican Stupidity, Republican Venality, Show Us on the Doll Where the Invisible Hand Touched You, the Great American Bubble Machine, Vote Like Your Country Depends On It
Republican Anniversary of the Week: Iran-Contra
Now that reports of Iranians storming embassies indicate that our national newspapers of record have been permitted to shake up the normal somnolence of their readers, an optimist might wonder if any aspiring journo would dare to mention the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Iran-Contra scandal. Few Balloon-Juice readers are optimists, but it did surprise me [...]
November 30, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 57 Comments
Posted in: An Unexamined Scandal, Excellent Links, Foreign Affairs, Our Failed Media Experiment, Republican Crime Syndicate - aka the Bush Admin., Republican Venality
“The Monster Descendants of a Republican Ego”
Last word on the DAR debate goes to Charlie Pierce, who is old like me, and remembers these monsters from their earlier crimes against humanity and the American system of government: ... [W]e must pause right here at the top to commend the Wingnut Undead for their lively presentations last night at the 9,875th of [...]
November 25, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 30 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Republican Crime Syndicate - aka the Bush Admin., Republican Stupidity, Republican Venality
Open Thread: The 27% Solution
Charlie Pierce at the Esquire Political Blog recalls another facet of Robert Bork’s career: If we all live long enough, we may see the end of conservative whining over the hard hand dealt to Robert Bork, who once was denied a seat on the Supreme Court of the United States because his judicial philosophy should [...]
October 24, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 57 Comments
Posted in: Crazification Factor, Decline and Fall, Open Thread, Republican Crime Syndicate - aka the Bush Admin.
Over
Twitter informs me that Obama is scheduled to announce a complete withdrawal from Iraq in 2011. What did we accomplish? What did we gain? Other than the removal of Saddam, nothing that I can tell, and I don’t understand how we are better off with Iraq in chaos and more closely aligned with Iran. Anyone [...]
October 21, 2011
· John Cole · 191 Comments
Posted in: Republican Crime Syndicate - aka the Bush Admin., War
Better Than a Jail Cell, I Guess
Jonathan Turley is shrill: While former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has been able to escape investigation and prosecution for his role in the torture program, no law firms or ranking law schools wanted to touch him as he sought gainful employment. Gonzales has been struggling to find someone who wants to be represented or [...]
October 4, 2011
· John Cole · 129 Comments
Posted in: Republican Crime Syndicate - aka the Bush Admin.
Thank Goodness For Small Miracles
I hope on the ten-year anniversary of 9/11, there were two men who wanted to make the disaster worse. Osama bin Laden and this guy: Newly published audio this week reveals that Vice President Dick Cheney’s infamous Sept. 11, 2001 order to shoot down rogue civilian aircraft was ignored by military officials, who instead ordered [...]
September 8, 2011
· John Cole · 147 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Republican Crime Syndicate - aka the Bush Admin.
When It Comes to Love I Want a Slow Hand
Apparently Dick Cheney has emerged from his undisclosed location/hyperbaric chamber and is still wowing the usual suspects with his wit and charm and gravitas: Why are they still interviewing this guy? Why is he on my tv every night? He’s a disgrace. Someone mentioned this delightful post in the comments the other day, and I [...]
September 7, 2011
· John Cole · 54 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Our Failed Media Experiment, Republican Crime Syndicate - aka the Bush Admin., Sociopaths
Open Thread: Darth Cheney, Redux
(Don Wright via GoComics.com) I can’t help myself; I was born to a tribe that cherishes a good grievance as an heirloom to be passed down for generations. Apart from football, what’s on the agenda for The Last Official Summer Weekend?
September 3, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 108 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Open Thread, Republican Crime Syndicate - aka the Bush Admin.
Open Thread: Darth Cheney, Puppy-Kicker
(Mike Luckovich via GoComics.com) Srsly: “From our first encounter,” writes Dick Cheney, “when I woke him up by stepping on him, Cyrano and I became close friends.” Cyrano is—sorry, was—a beloved family dog, a basset hound, accepted by the family when Cheney was working at President Richard Nixon’s Office of Economic Opportunity… “I think that [...]
September 2, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 23 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Open Thread, Republican Crime Syndicate - aka the Bush Admin.
Open Thread: Darth Cheney, Fictioneer
(Jim Morin via GoComics.com) Conor Friedersdorf at the Atlantic has a pretty good thumbnail summary Remembering Why Americans Loathe Dick Cheney: the Iraq war, torture, Halliburton, Ahmed Chalabi, unlimited detention of the innocent, his radical view of executive power, etc. Colin Powell’s former chief of staff, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, sniffs about Cheney’s “cheap shots”: “I [...]
September 1, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 102 Comments
Posted in: An Unexamined Scandal, Assholes, C.R.E.A.M., Grifters Gonna Grift, Lizard blogging, Open Thread, Our Failed Political Establishment, Republican Crime Syndicate - aka the Bush Admin., Sociopaths
I Like This Version Better
This is Jamison Foser’s edit of the Perry/Obama comparison picture (click to embiggen). I like it better than the one Libby Spencer made. It would be perfect if the title was something like “Let’s Not Get Fooled Again”. I realize that it’s less high-minded and more backward-looking, but it encapsulates the extremely simple, winning message [...]
August 29, 2011
· mistermix ... World Peace · 110 Comments
Posted in: Perry-tinnitus, Republican Crime Syndicate - aka the Bush Admin.
Monday Morning Open Thread
Maureen Dowd, self-appointed Queen Bee Mean Girl of the Villagers’ lunchroom, is the perfect reviewer for Darth Cheney’s new book: Vice’s new memoir, “In My Time,” veers unpleasantly between spin, insisting he was always right, and score-settling, insisting that anyone who opposed him was wrong. His knife-in-her-teeth daughter, Elizabeth Cheney, helped write the book. The [...]
August 29, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 24 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Open Thread, Republican Crime Syndicate - aka the Bush Admin.
