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George W Bush

Legacy of disgrace

Bush gets Libby off, destroys last vestiges of honor

2007.07.02 — Government | Politics | Law | by BB Rodriguez

George W Bush has always styled himself "the decider." He decides if Saddam is dangerous. He decides if Rice will talk to Congress. He decides if Rumsfeld is incompetent. He decides if Gonzales is a hack. He decides if it's okay to spy on Americans, imprison people without charges, and torture suspects. And now he decides if Scooter Libby should serve more of his sentence for obstructing justice than Paris Hilton served for driving on a suspended license.

 

The corrupting influence of lousy pay

Money

Want to clean up Congress? Give them more money

2007.01.29 — Government | Business | Politics | by Barton Castor

When Bill Clinton left the White House to his successor, he had arranged with Congress a pay raise for the president (such things always take effect for the next guy). Cost of living increases had driven many federal jobs' salaries up close to his paltry $200 thousand annual salary, and it was becoming embarrassing. Congress members vote themselves raises pretty regularly. Of course, voters often complain about this—pretty much every time Congress votes themselves a pay raise, in fact—even tho US government employees, from the president on down, make lousy money. Lousy. And DC is an expensive place to live.

 

Jamming the blender

W's strategy for Iraq is to choke the enemy with our dead

2007.01.03 — Government | Politics | War | by BB Rodriguez

George W Bush

Stop him before he kills again. Over the holidays, the American dead in Iraq topped 3,000. That's well short of the 58,000 that died in Vietnam, but it's a hell of a lot closer than any sane human being imagined. And it's a hell of a lot more than any rational human being would persist in the face of. That 3,000 dead not during a shooting war, but during the rebuilding after the war. It's not a war of attrition; it's an occupation of attrition. That's like getting scored on for 30 points after the final whistle. It doesn't make sense.

 

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