Hold Fast

The New York Times (finally) editorializes on President Bush’s knowledge and approval of US torture policies.
The amount of time and energy devoted to this furtive exercise at the very highest levels of the government reminded us how little Americans know, in fact, about the ways Mr. Bush and his team undermined, subverted and broke the […]

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President Bush knew of and approved of high level meetings in which White House officials like Rice, Powell, Cheney, Tenet, and Rumsfeld signed off on American torture policies. This strikes against the heart of who we are as a nation.
The ACLU and John Amato of Crooks & Liars are calling for a special counsel to […]

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History News Network:
In an informal survey of 109 professional historians conducted over a three-week period through the History News Network, 98.2 percent assessed the presidency of Mr. Bush to be a failure while 1.8 percent classified it as a success.
Asked to rank the presidency of George W. Bush in comparison to those of […]

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Today’s Wall Street Journal includes a piece by Siobhan Gorman that reports that Bush is pushing Congressional Dems to come to the negotiating table on FISA and that he’s willing to make some concessions from his previous hard-line of retroactive immunity and expanded executive powers.
Over the two-week spring recess, administration officials contacted Democratic leaders […]

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Will Bunch makes a very thoughtful point about the necessity for George W. Bush to boycott the Beijing Olympics:
You know, for an administration that like to insist that “all options are on the table” when it comes to dropping bombs on Iraq or Iran, wouldn’t it be nice if for once “all options were on […]

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Speaking of the Bush administration’s continued expansion of executive powers that impinge on the possibility for legislative or judicial oversight, Atrios writes:
To the extent that this is about his successor, my guess is that they figure that Congress will rediscover its interest in oversight and objections to presidential executive power overreach. The very powers Bush […]

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Betsy, writing at T.Rex’s pad, asks:
Just heard a radio show in which the host suggested that Bush be forced to wear a sign proclaiming that he’s a failure who ruined the country. I was thinking more along the lines of a dunce cap, but I think a neon t-shirt with a saying might be a […]

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