President Chimpy cries out for help The term “free market” seems to be code for a Darwinian, survival of the fittest FU mentality. The “greed is good” mantram of the Reagan years has, under George W. Bush, gone into overdrive, precipitating a worldwide economic meltdown. Here is what the most incompetent and reviled president in US history had to say …
A number of significant economic statistics were announced yesterday: inflation hit a 71/2 year high; consumer earning power declined 3 1/2% from last year; and home foreclosures rose 55%. Fueling these economic fires has been the soaring cost of the Iraq war and occupation. Using credit cards, American taxpayers bought huge amounts of stock in Corporate America‘s colonization of Iraq. …
[UPDATE to Supremes Slap Jr. Over Habeus Violations] Now we know where our Frat Brat in Chief got the inspiration for his assertion that the US Constitution gives him unlimited power to pursue his grandiose fantasy as the uber unitary executive. Twenty three seconds into the video clip below, we learn that the secret is out: “There’s a little known …
Hillary Clinton missed the zeitgeist, while Barack Obama not only recognized and embraced it, but due in large part to his diverse cultural and racial background, actually embodies it. Barack’s message of Hope and Change found greater resonance in the Democratic electorate than Hillary’s message of Experience and Leadership. The latter no doubt polled well in Mark Penn‘s focus groups, …
Today, Jay Rosen over at Huffington Post uses a slightly different analysis to come to the same conclusion as moi last Saturday re what I’ll call here The McClellan Mushroom Strategy: Keep him in the dark and feed him loads of shit: One of Bush’s strengths is his eye for human weakness. The towel-snapping humor is based on this. It …
Former Bush Administration Press Secretary Scott McClellan‘s new tell-all book, What Happened:Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception, hasn’t even officially hit the bookshelves yet and there is already a ton of reviews and political analyses, thanks to advance copies provided to the well-connected. My local Borders is not among the elite, however, so I’m going to …
