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Thursday July 10, 2008 · 11:54 PM PDT

2008/07/10 · 23:54

[Cross-posted at gee bobg.]

President Bush has been pushing and pushing to get Congress to pass a bill granting him expanded warrantless surveillance powers, even though the existing FISA court already served as a rubber stamp to approve almost any wiretapping the Executive Branch wanted. Why then would he need such powers? Obviously it’s to conduct surveillance that even the FISA court wouldn’t approve — i.e., surveillance not essential to national security.

What was it that the Nixon administration was busted for? (You know, the administration in which Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld served?) Oh yeah: spying on its political rivals.

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Wednesday January 30, 2008 · 10:40 AM PST

2008/01/30 · 10:40

(Cross-posted at gee bobg.)

John Edwards has ended his presidential run.

I would like to jump straight to the final of Kübler-Ross’s five stages of grief, "acceptance," but it’s probably unhealthy to skip right over the other stages, so please bear with me as I race through:

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Monday June 11, 2007 · 6:34 AM PDT

2007/06/11 · 06:34

[Cross-posted at geebobg.com.]

Washington DC, January 2001. George Bush takes the oath of office. Several hundred Republicans converge on the inaugural ball.

Republicans:
When you’re with Bush
You’re with Bush thoroughly
From your first cute nickname
To your last "not guilty"

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Sunday September 24, 2006 · 11:56 PM PDT

2006/09/24 · 23:56

This car. Goeth would have bought this car. Why did I keep the car? Ten people right there. Ten people. Ten more people. This pin. Two people. This is gold. Two more people. He would have given me two for it, at least one. One more person. A person, Stern. For this. I could have gotten one more person... and I didn't! And I... I didn't!

Face it: we're already at fascism. If America descends further into totalitarianism, will I feel I had done enough to prevent it, or will I be like Oskar Schindler at the end of Schindler's List, who lamented the inadequacy of his efforts even though he did more than most?

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Saturday September 02, 2006 · 5:20 PM PDT

2006/09/02 · 17:20

In A Liberal Walks Into A Bar..., georgia10 asks for our anecdotes about times we've personally countered the blatherings of conservatives with the cold steel of Reason. I've done quite a bit of it, chiefly in e-mail, principally among the members of my high-school alumni mailing list, where a few outspoken conservatives are resident. Here is one of the messages I sent. Read More

It's this simple

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Wednesday August 23, 2006 · 6:53 PM PDT

2006/08/23 · 18:53

Driving to work this morning I found myself behind a car with a striking bumper sticker. In bold black letters it said: "DEMOCRAT." The background was a narrow, stylized slice of a waving American flag.

That's all. (not all of this diary, there's more...) Read More

Filibuster NOW

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Thursday January 26, 2006 · 7:26 AM PST

2006/01/26 · 07:26

A lot of folks here and elsewhere have talked about the need to filibuster the Alito nomination, and there has been a lot of vote-counting to determine whether there are enough votes (41) to sustain one. LiberalOasis has rightly described the case of 41 "no" votes with no filibuster as the worst-case Alito scenario (for the Dems' reputation).

I'll go one better: girded with today's pro-filibuster editorial in the NY Times, Democratic senators should filibuster right now and damn the vote count. All it takes is one heroic Jefferson Smith to get the ball rolling and force the other senators to fall into line one way or the other.

Even if the Republicans can break the filibuster -- hell, even if they "go nuclear" (especially if they go nuclear) -- it's still a can't-lose move for those senators courageous and principled enough to do it.

IMPEACH: add to my collection of pithy anti-Bush phrases

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Tuesday January 17, 2006 · 3:39 PM PST

2006/01/17 · 15:39

I'm designing my own IMPEACH graphic for the guerilla IMPEACH campaign. It incorporates numerous short phrases such as "I don't think anyone anticipated the breach of levees" and "Downing Street Memo" and "New Orleans" and "Abu Ghraib." It looks like this:

Not all of the phrases are reasons to impeach Bush per se. But they are all reasons to question his fitness to govern.

Before I start printing these up and sticking them up around town, will you help me add to the list of pithy phrases? (It's hard to keep up, there are new "good" ones almost daily.)

See my current list on the flip. Read More

Another thousand words

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Friday September 02, 2005 · 12:53 PM PDT

2005/09/02 · 12:53

Last night I drew my first-ever editorial cartoon.

(Note to would-be caricaturists: wide head, big ears, close-set eyes, and a crooked smirk. I didn't expect it to be so easy.)

Say what you like about adversity, it does bring out the creative impulse.

Please feel free to spread this far and wide.

"They drink the sand because they don't know the difference."

Two pictures say two thousand words

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Wednesday August 31, 2005 · 2:54 PM PDT

2005/08/31 · 14:54

Some of the most effective criticisms I've seen of Bush have been the ones that take his shortcomings as given (rather than try to argue for them), then contrast them to what real presidents have been like. (Here's a very good recent example.)

So I constructed the following very simple GIF animation to draw my own comparison. (By a strange coincidence, I did this late last night shortly before seeing a different [and much better] animation this morning in Fight the UnTruth's excellent diary.)

Enjoy. Feel free to spread this far and wide.

Just a guess

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Friday June 03, 2005 · 7:49 AM PDT

2005/06/03 · 07:49

The media will fan the scant, feeble sparks of impeachment into tiny flames.

A few conservative members of Congress will surprise everyone by signing on. Democrats will be emboldened and start shouting about impeachment.

All the evidence of Bush's malfeasance that we've known about all along will finally be digested for the public at large by the mainstream media and will become water-cooler discussion fodder.

(cont'd) Read More

Actor-in-chief

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Wednesday January 12, 2005 · 11:20 AM PST

2005/01/12 · 11:20

Found this at LiberalOasis:

Dubya had one of his patented invite-only "town halls" yesterday, with all attendees die-hard backers of Social Security privatization.
How scripted was this event? Check out this exchange:
MS. STONE: I would like to introduce my mom. This is my mother, Rhoda Stone. And she is grandmother of three, and originally from Helsinki, Finland, and has been here over 40 years.
THE PRESIDENT: Fantastic. Same age as my mother.
MS. STONE: Just turned 80.
Of course, the script probably told Bush to say, "same age as my mother" after Ms. Stone mentions her mom is 80.

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