When the Democrats regained control of the House in 2006, the new Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, famously took the impeachment of George Bush “off the table.” This puzzled and disappointed millions of people who rightly wondered why a president could be impeached over a sex lie in 1999 but not over a lie just four years […]

The White House propaganda office invited a few of George Bush’s remaining supporters in the media — second- or third-tier rightwing columnists like Jonah Goldberg and Kathleen Parker — up to the Oval Office last week for an audience with his nibs.
During the mostly off the record meeting, Bush apparently doled out campaign-style spin that […]

People haven’t felt this bad about the economy since the first Bush was president. As the current Bush might say, “Fool me once, uh, well…won’t get fooled again. Heh-heh.”
I hate to say “I told you so” (actually that’s not true, I really enjoy being right) but I warned all those young Republicans whippersnappers who got […]

From the latest Harris Poll:
President Bush’s latest ratings are 24 percent positive and fully 75 percent negative. Previously, his worst numbers were 26 percent positive and 72 percent negative in April of this year. His ratings are substantially worse than those of any president, except for Jimmy Carter (22c-77 percent in July 1980), since Harris […]

It has been 81 months since Osama bin Laden attacked the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, but only now — with just seven months left in his term, George Bush has become desperate to capture the terror overlord.
“Bush is swinging for the fences in the hope of scoring a home run.”– U.S. intelligence source
If […]

You Won’t Hear About in U.S. Media Because Bush Has Imposed a Gag Order, According to the BBC
In October, we wrote about the $12 billion in cash — shrink-wrapped bricks of $100 bills — that the Bush Administration flew into Iraq on cargo pallets and then lost:
“It may well turn out to be the largest […]

7:58 a.m.: Well, not so much “at this hour,” as C-SPAN suggested. After 40 minutes of “morning business,” the House is debating AMTRAK. Either C-SPAN was wrong or the schedule was altered a bit. I suspect it was the latter.
In the meantime, here’s a bit from CQ Politics on the politics of Kucinich’s impeachment effort:
Under […]

Last night we watched two hours of the official reading into the congressional record of Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s motion to impeach President George Bush on C-SPAN. Unfortunately, I couldn’t stay up for the whole thing, which apparently took Kucinich nearly five hours to read on Monday, but I did last through four tag-team readers.
In […]

On his final trip to Europe as president, George Bush acknowledged that his Wild West lingo in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq was overly bellicose:
“I think that in retrospect I could have used a different tone, a different rhetoric,” Bush told the Wednesday edition of the Times of London, referring to […]