Sooooo tired: A savvy Pensito Review reader coined the expression “outrage fatigue” a while back, which aptly expressed the ennui many of us feel when we are confronted with the most recent outrageous antics of Bush Co. Well, apparently, about two-thirds of Americans are feeling “Bush fatigue,” according to an April Pew Research Center [...]

Last night, we posted a quote from White House spokesman-to-be Tony Snow who likened President Bush’s speech patterns to those of a person with anxiety disorders. This morning, Think Progress has more recent quotes from Snow’s radio shows and columns in which he has been highly critical of the president:
“The president doesn’t seem to give [...]

CNN just confirmed that Tony Snow will be named White House spokesman tomorrow. Here’s what Snow wrote in a column about candidate George W. Bush in 2000:
At one point last week, he stunned a friendly audience by barking out absurd and inappropriate words, like a soul tortured with Tourette’s…
Bush … has to persuade people he’s [...]

Cost of security is privacy: The Department of Homeland Security is pushing Congress to pass legislation giving its Immigration and Customs Enforcement division access to Social Security databases so it can identify mismatched and fake SS numbers used by illegal aliens. Remembering the heckuva job DHS did during Hurricane Katrina and the fact that DHS [...]

Ripples in the “wave”: While it seems that most commentators have been focused on the opportunities for the Democratic Party to gain House congressional seats in the midterms, Nathan L. Gonzales notes in the Rothenberg Political Report that in the past 50 years, no party has won seats without losing at least one. If that’s [...]

Great wealth always supports the party in power, no matter how corrupt it may be. It never exerts itself for reform for it instinctively fears change.
— Henry George (1839-1897), American economist

“I based a lot of my foreign policy decisions on some things that I think are true. One, I believe there’s an Almighty, and secondly, I believe one of the great gifts of the Almighty is the desire in everybody’s soul, regardless of what you look like or where you live, to be free. “
– [...]

“Dear Mr. President”
by Pink, featuring the Indigo Girls
Dear Mr. President
Come take a walk with me
Let’s pretend we’re just two people and
You’re not better than me
I’d like to ask you some questions if we can speak honestly
What do you feel when you see all the homeless on the street
Who do you pray for at night before [...]

Asked whether “honest and trustworthy” describes the president, 40 percent said yes, down from 56 percent in a survey carried out April 1-2 last year.
As troubling as it is for our national health and security that 32 percent of Americans still support President Bush, it is also disturbing to consider what will happen when these [...]

Hack to flack:
“It would be a change in job title, but not description.”– Neal Gabler
On “Anderson Cooper 360,” Suzanne Malveaux, CNN’s White House correspondent, is reporting that Tony Snow will accept the job to replace Scott McClellan as the new White House press secretary. The announcement might come in a few days or [...]