Tag Archives: Bush Legacy

Bush Scandals : The List. (Not a Pretty Picture)

Posted on February 4, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

British Artist Jonathan Yeo created this portrait of President Bush using a collage of images cut out from 100 porn magazines. This piece was unveiled in August 2007 at the Lazarides Gallery in London. Interestingly enough, Yeo was commissioned by … Continue reading →

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Great Job, Junior!

Posted on January 22, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Creator’s Syndicate / The Bush Legacy / About.com.‘I mean, how incompetent do you have to be to send truckloads of ice to Maine and Montana while Hurricane survivors are still without power in Mississippi and Louisiana?’ By Steve Russell / … Continue reading →

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Adios

Posted on January 19, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Political cartoon by Joshua Brown / Historians Against the War / The Rag Blog Thanks to Dr. S. R. Keister / The Rag Blog

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Dubya Bids Adieu : Still Delusional After All These Years

Posted on January 16, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Bush says bye bye. Photo courtesy of Boston Globe.‘If there was any value in the speech it was this: it should remind us of the importance of refusing to allow this delusional revisionism to stand.’By Arianna Huffington / January 16, … Continue reading →

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Cheney : Faces Nation, Won’t Face Truth

Posted on January 5, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

‘Cheney wrapped up his version of “Through the Iraqi Looking Glass,” double-speaking his way through torture, detention, Guantanamo, wiretapping without warrant, and the administration’s basic trampling of the Constitution.’ By Larry Ray / The Rag Blog / January 4, 2009 … Continue reading →

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2008 : Bush Blew it on Katrina, But Where Were the Progressives?

Posted on December 31, 2008 by Thorne Dreyer

Speaker Nancy Pelosi in Chalmette, La., Aug. 14, 2007. Pelosi and a congressional delegation of Democrats were visiting Hurricane Katrina ravaged areas. With her are House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn, D-S.C. (right) and U.S. Rep. Charlie Melancon, D-La. Photo … Continue reading →

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Bush/Cheney : The Makeover and the Two Myths

Posted on December 30, 2008 by Thorne Dreyer

Torture saved us and the surge worked. Not.By Robert Parry As George W. Bush and Dick Cheney make their case for some positive legacy from the past eight years, two arguments are playing key roles: the notion that torturing terror … Continue reading →

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From Those Who Know : Torture Just Doesn’t Work

Posted on December 22, 2008 by Thorne Dreyer

Artist: Fernando Botero / truthout.Tortured reasoning: The tactical errors of prisoner abuse.By David Rose George W. Bush defended harsh interrogations by pointing to intelligence breakthroughs, but a surprising number of counterterrorist officials say that, apart from being wrong, torture just … Continue reading →

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Michael Connell : The Suspicious Death of the Man Who May Have Rigged the 2000 Election

Posted on December 22, 2008 by Thorne Dreyer

Michael Connell. Photo from Cleveland Plain Dealer.‘Michael Connell’s unnatural, suspicious death raises serious questions about the corruption of the American electoral process that now may never be answered.’By Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman / December 21, 2008 Michael Connell, the … Continue reading →

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Bush’s EPA : Another Green Light to Carbon Emissions

Posted on December 19, 2008 by Thorne Dreyer

New power plants will not be required to install technology to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, the Environmental Protection Agency has ruled. Photo by Charlie Riedel / AP. The case at issue yesterday began in 2007 when the EPA issued a … Continue reading →

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Bush Throws Polar Bears Under the Bus

Posted on December 11, 2008 by Thorne Dreyer

Polar bear reacts to today’s news. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne announces revisions to Endangered Species Act. ‘To finally admit that the science compels the listing of the polar bear as threatened due to global warming, but then deny it the … Continue reading →

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Dubya on Iraq : Oh What a Beautiful War

Posted on November 24, 2008 by Thorne Dreyer

Springtime for Hitler from The Producers.Mission Accomplished: Bush tells Japanese television he’s ‘very pleased’ with the Iraq War.November 23, 2008 US President George W Bush believes the Iraq war has been successful and is “very pleased” with what is happening … Continue reading →

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