The Bushes, from George H.W. to Jeb, have always had a soft spot for Northeast Florida, finding it a profitable place for them to fund raise. And what the area might now lack in quantity of adherents, it makes up in quality. Fourteen of Bush 43’s highest potential donors in these parts met with him [...]

Attorney General Eric Holder announced yesterday that federal legal and judicial resources will no longer be deployed against legal medicinal marijuana dispensaries in California and other states.
This is a 180-degree change from the right-wing policies of the Bush administration, which had a zero-tolerance policy against cannabis use by patients suffering from cancer, chronic pain and [...]

Just six weeks ago, Senate Minority Leader Mitch Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) rushed to microphones to argue against government-imposed salary and bonus caps for executives at companies being bailed out by American taxpayers, now McConnell claims to be outraged that the government did not impose these same caps on AIG. Via ThinkProgress:
McConnell in February:
MCCONNELL: “I really [...]

When you hear the emerging facts on the AIG bonus pay-out, no matter how tired you are of the whole topic, you get outraged all over again. According to Attorney Gen. Andrew Cuomo’s office, as reported by Reuters:
* AIG distributed more than $160 million in retention payments to employees at its Financial Products unit, the [...]

In its report on George Bush’s speech in Calgary, Canada, yesterday, the Associated Press write-up included this nugget:
Bush said that he doesn’t know what he will do in the long term but that he will write a book that will ask people to consider what they would do if they had to protect the United [...]

Just days after alleged death-squad leader Dick Cheney gave his hearty endorsement to Rush Limbaugh as the Republican Party’s new boss, Limbaugh weighed in on the controversy over $400 million in taxpayer-funded bonuses slated to be paid to derivatives traders at insurance giant AIG.
“Let me tell you something, folks. I am all for the [...]

Judge Judy Sheindlin on Larry King Live:
“We’ve got a lot of trouble in this country. We’ve got a lot of trouble in the world. Why the state should be interested in proscribing the word marriage from two people who love each other, who are responsible, tax-paying, productive people, who have created a family … why [...]

“I guess Rush Limbaugh was busy so they trotted out the next most popular member of the Republican cabal.”
— White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, responding to Sunday show criticism from former Vice President Dick Cheney

Here’s another shining example of a Republican reflexively refusing to accept responsibility for his own and his party’s misdeeds and incompetence:
Former Vice President Dick Cheney says don’t blame George Bush for leaving President Obama with an economic catastrophe.
It was everyone else, and the Democrats, who brought on disaster, said Cheney, who was one of Bush’s [...]

In the ocean of bad economic news, there may be a glimmer of hope on the horizon.
On American Public Media’s Marketplace last week, economist Susan Lee suggested a better way of tracking the economy than, certainly, individual 401k accounts, and even the Conference Board’s indices — which she says have incorrectly predicted five recessions since [...]