Your Turn: What A Mess
For weeks now, the demise of the GOP was the elephant in the room. Now front, back and center, the elephant is the room. Accordingly, I invite you to join and follow my readership in attempting to tame this TIME-ly mess.
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'06 Race In Single Digits
I came down too hard on Bill Clinton yesterday. His public thrashing of FOX and Chris Wallace on Sunday has proven quite effective. And I'm not say that because of the invigoration of the netroots. It's because of how the blow to an already off-balance White House shows up in...
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Losing It?
Up to now, I've felt that Bush had the psychological strength to contain the anger and arrogance that underlies much of his behavior. Observing his press conference in the Rose Garden on Friday however, I'm not so sure anymore. Bush pulled off the Presidency perfectly well when things were...
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9/11: Tender Is The Right
Frankly, I don't see how 9/11 can be venerated in any legitimate collective way as long as George Bush is leading that process. Above all, BushCo's manipulation of the survivors and victims on the anniversary of this abhorrent tragedy shows the blasphemy of someone whose actions consistently demonstrate duplicity...
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What's In A Face: The (Not So) New Bush 9/11 Strategy
Writes Cohen: By bringing 14 high-level terror suspects out of secret prisons run the the Central Intelligence Agency and into the rlative open of the guantanamo Bay detention center, and by demanding that Congress approve war-crives trials of these men by military tribunals, Bush seemed to change the political...
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Working It Up
Although well into the process of diligently dismembering the White House analogy between fascism, communism and "Islamicism," the liberal blogosphere may be missing the point.... When you find the MSM and the White House highlighting the same behavioral features, you must be suspicious. If you noticed, the point made,...
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Katrina Anniversary: From Tragedy To Farce
The White House images from Bush's second day in the Gulf reveal a shallowness, a self-centeredness and a lack of connection that has characterized "W" all along, but is now painfully visible the surface. The Bush's day in New Orleans is represented by fifteen photos on the White House photo...
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Katrina Anniversary: The New Paparazzi
Obviously, Bush is in an incredibly weak position on Katrina, but I have yet to see Rove -- characteristically defiant when the chips are down -- pull back or get this defensive with the visuals.... Last week, the It's understandable Bush would seek out the credibility by tying himself...
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Special (Photo) Ops
If you've been following the wires, the tactic of surrounding Bush with service men and women has reached almost manic proportions. It's one thing to put Dubya on a chow line, but this shot -- taken yesterday during a "visit" with the US Coast Guard in Miami -- hardly...
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Foreign, And Domestic Affairs
Studying yesterday's newswire with a particular eye to Bush's appearance before the not-so-friendly NAACP -- I came upon something I found curious.
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Screw The U.N.
July 15: A man hurls a stone at a U.N. vehicle carrying bodies away from the Tyre hospital. The Lebanese government called on the U.N. Security Council to establish a cease-fire. (image: Hassan Ammar/AFP-Getty. Tyre, Lebanon.
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Let's eat!
With crises in every direction, reporters were just looking for a few words of intelligence and reassurance from the carver-in-chief.... Putin jab http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/15/putin-jab/ Bush changes story with pig http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2006_07_01_digbysblog_archive.html#115291755754051676 U.S. President George W. Bush (center L) cuts a roasted wild pig beside German Chancellor Angela Merkel during a barbecue...
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Heartbreak Hotel
If you were to ask, they were "just" showing Prime Minister Koizumi where Dr. King was shot -- since they had done it up at Graceland and were in the neighborhood anyway. In their constant (and symbolically heavy-handed) quest to ingratiate themselves with the black voting populace, however, it's...
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Schmoozer-In-Chief
Although this Administration photo is seven weeks old, it now seems to mark the inauguration of the White House's "Bush/Bolton" strategy. According to this piece in yesterday's NYT, April is when Bolton began to assert himself, reshaping the previously insulated and hostile Dubya into someone who "reaches out."
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Performance Problems? Or, No Longer That Kind Of Guy?
Here's where I'm a little confused about this cover. The illustration equates the loss of virility with the failure of Bush's aggressive and adventurist policies. With Bush's more moderate stance on immigration, however, and now the admission that his macho attitude was a central failing in prosecuting the war,...
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Saturday Versus Monday Night Live
The Oval Office was on center stage this week, not just for Bush's immigration speech, but also Al Gore's appearance on Saturday Night Live.... Before the official broadcast, NBC cued Bush to begin, which created an awkward false start to the speech.... The small glitch, however, was indicative of...
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Same As It Ever Was
Trying to get a handle on Tuesday's key political image, The BAG only encountered more right wing demoralization.... Besides the obsessive and perverse replay of this necroporn at FOX News, however -- as if out of nostalgia for the heady "smoke 'em out of their hole" days -- the...
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