Hold Fast

The Bush presidency is almost over.

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Marcy Wheeler lays it out: Yet then Bush throws in the demands that Republicans made–without noting that this was basically an ideological ploy to break the union, all the while demanding that employees of American-owned companies make significantly less than the employees of Japanese-owned companies. Targets: The terms and conditions established by Treasury will include [...]

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Ari Melber makes a great point about outstanding questions of how the Obama administration will be able to restore the rule of law and prosecute those responsible for a number of civil liberties violations, war crimes, and anti-American acts. The immunity crowd has one more card to play. Crimes committed on behalf of national security, [...]

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Matt Yglesias, evaluating whether George W. Bush is the worst President in US history, has to dig pretty damn deep to find some exculpatory evidence for Bush. I think an issue like asking whether or not George W. Bush is the worst president we’ve ever had gets a little too imponderable considering the historical issues. [...]

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Via Andrew Golis:

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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