Loyal to the end: A new book says Bush credited Osama bin Laden for helping him win the 2004 election, but stops just short of saying Bush asked his old family pal to do it. CNN reports that Bush felt like the tape, released the Friday before Election Day Tuesday, was a little slice of […]

Saudis Say 4 Militants Killed in Raids
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi authorities announced Tuesday that four of the five militants killed during police raids a day earlier in the Saudi capital included the kingdom’s top terrorist and three other members of the al-Qaida terror group. Nice shooting, guys. Okay, now you can take over our […]

Almost 90 percent of the military believes the Bush lie that Saddam was behind 9/11
According to the new Le Moyne College/Zogby Poll, just one in five troops — 72 percent — agrees with President Bush that the United States should stay “as long as they are needed” in Iraq.
There is a terrifying number […]

Some people might make the case that the person who most embodies the modern Republican Party — dishonest, fear-mongering and in the pocket of corporate interests — is President George Bush. I would propose that the real GOP icon of our time is Jack Abramoff, a man who put his self-interests above those of everything […]

Queer accounting: A University of California commission whose members include a former Defense secretary has challenged the methodology used by the Government Accountability Office to calculate the cost of the Defense Department’s homosexual conduct policy, reports GovExec.com.
The UC-Santa Barbara commission accused GAO of underestimating the cost of replacing military service members discharged under the Don’t […]

Ports Deal and Katrina Bungling Cause 8 Point Drop
Is President Bush in a race with himself to the bottom:
GOP voters oppose the ports deal by 58%
The latest CBS News poll finds President Bush’s approval rating has fallen to an all-time low of 34 percent, while pessimism about the Iraq war has risen to […]

Ohio Democratic state Senator Robert Hagan’s proposal to ban GOP adoption is a great idea. Hagan says “credible research” shows that adopted children raised in GOP households are more at risk for developing “emotional problems, social stigmas, inflated egos, and alarming lack of tolerance for others they deem different than themselves and an air of […]

“Believe me, I expected it to go faster. In a way this is an on-the-job training. I mean I did not go to school to become a governor.”
– Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, addressing California Republican state convention
“[No one] can prepare for the job of being a governor until you’re there. And that’s when you all of […]

Cheney Quietly, Belatedly Turns over Hundreds of Plame-Related Emails