John Dean's New Column: Increasingly Dangerous President - UPDATED with Poll

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Thursday April 20, 2006 · 10:28 PM PDT

2006/04/20 · 22:28

If I wasn't depressed enough about where we are heading, John Dean's newest column, If Past Is Prologue, George Bush Is Becoming An Increasingly Dangerous President, puts everything in its truly frightening perspective. And, has been suggested, it most assuredly deserves to be read in its entirety.

Recent events provide an especially good illustration of Bush's fateful - perhaps fatal - approach. Six generals who have served under Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld have called for his resignation - making a strong substantive case as to why he should resign. And they are not alone: Editorialists have also persuasively attacked Rumsfeld on the merits.
Yet Bush's defense of Rumsfeld was entirely substance-free. Bush simply told reporters in the Rose Garden that Rumsfeld would stay because "I'm the decider and I decide what's best." He sounded much like a parent telling children how things would be: "I'm the Daddy, that's why."
Apparently, Bush does not realize that to lead he must continually renew his approval with the public. He is not, as he thinks, the decider. The public is the decider.

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Sunday April 09, 2006 · 1:35 PM PDT

2006/04/09 · 13:35

I have a profound respect for the level of courage, morality and intelligence of many of the persons on this blog and who participate in many of the top political blogs (of which I am hopelessly addicted).

On a one-to-one basis, persons from this community have been able to show those of the right that we really all want the same things, i.e., the same liberties, the same freedoms, and the same protections.

But, on a wide-scale basis, we have not been that successful. And, much of our population has fallen victim to the MSM and those sly PR folks. I don't believe for a minute that they possess more intelligence than we do. So, maybe we need to come up with something that short and sweet and will easily stick to anyone's vernacular.

The fact that it comes from a Republican strategist makes it that much more fun. Read More

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Tuesday March 28, 2006 · 8:39 AM PST

2006/03/28 · 08:39

The fictitious Kyl/Graham "floor debate" post by Anonymous Liberal (a bright attorney who says he relies on "logic, empiricism, and sound policy analysis") at Glenn Greenwald's Unclaimed Territory is frightening in its implications. While it seems that no matter the injustice, that the republicans seem to go merrily along on their crusade for inequality and betrayal of all that we as a nation stand for, one needs to wonder when the boondoggle will finally come to a screeching halt. Read More

$7 a gallon gas? Yes, a National Crisis is Coming

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Friday September 23, 2005 · 8:03 PM PDT

2005/09/23 · 20:03

Rita is now due to have a direct hit through Port Arthur, TX. Steve Gregory speaks to rainfall totals of 20-30 inches in some locations. And, Dr. Jeff Masters indicates that despite Rita being a Category 3 or 4 hurricane at landfall, that she will carry to the coast a Category 4 or 5 level storm surge along a 40-60 mile stretch of coast, causing widespread destruction in the cities of Port Arthur, Orange, and Cameron.

Analysts say that refineries rarely suffer catastrophic wind damage and that the real danger is flooding. ... Extensive flooding in Port Arthur, Tex., or Lake Charles, La., would cause prices to spike, possibly as high as $6 or $7 a gallon, doubling the widespread assumptions of $3-a-gallon gas that are expected in the aftermath.

Either way, it's going to be disruptive. With refiners shutting down and assuming 4 million barrels per day of capacity is shut in for at least five days, the lost production would amount to 20 million barrels.

"Rita will have a significant impact on petroleum product markets even without significant damage similar to Hurricane Katrina," Merrill Lynch analysts conclude.

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Monday September 12, 2005 · 10:05 AM PDT

2005/09/12 · 10:05

I know another diary has been posted on this but thought it would get buried if I just posted a comment there.

Dr. Ben Marble has been trying repeatedly to post auctions at Ebay that provide the original mini-dvd taped version, as well as video copies, of his infamous experience in Gulfport, MS. As he says, here "we survived the worst disaster in the history of our nation only to have a politician come to our neighborhood to try to score some brownie points after totally screwing up the rescue efforts". Read More

The Ultimate NOLA Victimization: A Psychologist's Moving Account - UPDATED

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Saturday September 10, 2005 · 8:11 PM PDT

2005/09/10 · 20:11

Adele M. Stan, who writes from Washington, DC., is one of a few bloggers who recently provided a first-hand account from a clinical psychologist working as a volunteer with evacuees in the Dallas Reunion Arena and the Dallas Civic Center.

There are so many words that come to mind. As a scholar I am thinking Diaspora, social displacement, systemic disruption, mass trauma, pandemic and unbelievable chaos. As a clinician, I am looking at something that we have never been trained to handle in this country--a level of victimization and its resultant psychosocial ripples that mandate a whole new field of clinical practice-mass victimology.

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