As I see people compiling lists of things Pres. Bush and VP Cheney said about Iran — after they had been alerted by their intelligence chief of new evidence that an Iranian nuclear weapons program had halted in 2003 — I’m noticing recurrent choices of words and phrases that may signal that they were deliberately […]

Good Friday morning Fellow Seekers,
In his address to the nation on Thursday evening, President Bush attempted to do something that even his own lawyers will not assert is within his power: To impose an indefinite commitment to his Iraq policy on his successor.
“Iraqi leaders from all communities… understand that their success will require U.S. political, economic, and security […]

In Australia, yesterday, President Bush reflected again on Iraq. He reiterated that the war is an ideological struggle, that Iraq and Afghanistan are two fronts in the war, that the goal is to create new democracies that can be allies of the U.S. in the war, that the U.S. can succeed, and that it will […]

Good Friday noon Fellow Seekers,
See if you can figure out why New Republic Senior Editor John Judis believes experiments conducted by three psychologists like the one described just below provide a key to Pres. Bush’s political success from 2001 to 2005. In one experiment, the psychologists:
“assembled 22 Tucson municipal court judges. They told the judges […]

I was vacationing last week, when President Bush gave his  Aug. 22 speech to the VFW national convention, which is mostly known for Bush’s surprising decision to invoke the Vietnam analogy in explaining what’s going on in Iraq. Enough has been written about the holes in Bush’s use of that analogy.
In reading the full text of the […]

Just below, this post will remind you of one of the most blatant acts of sandbagging a government lawsuit to the benefit of of the an industry (tobacco) that was part of the Republican coalition. The fact that the case isn’t better known testifies to the smog of politicization cases that has blighted the Bush administration’s reputation.
But first, with Democrats enjoying their victory […]

I’ve been asked to appear on the Dan Barreiro program, that’s KFAN AM 1130, after the 6 p.m. newsbreak this evening.
Barreiro’s sidekick, Joe Anderson aka Mr. Phunn, is filling in tonight. He wants to talk about the Rove departure, among other things, and I’m working on a post about it. My entry question is this: Does […]