News and Politics from a Progressive Perspective
30
Nov
[b][link:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/26/AR2008112600386_pf.html|FDA Draws Fire Over Chemicals In Baby Formula][/b]
By Lyndsey Layton
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, November 27, 2008; A02
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The FDA collected 87 samples of…
Tags: Baby Formula, Bush, Chemicals, Dangerous Threat, Excerpt, Fda, Lyndsey Layton, Public Safety, Staff Writer, Washington Post, Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday
28
Nov
Obama isn’t likely to pursue torture atrocities during the Bush era, but this is one problem you simply can’t wish away.
Tags: Atrocities, Bush, Era, Price Down, Torture
28
Nov
[b][link:journals.democraticunderground.com/seafan/713|Mercifully, the end of an error.][/b], December 22, 2006
[b][link:www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/27/bush-will-miss-airforce-o_n_146905.html|Bush Will Miss Airforce One, White House Cooking][/b], November 27, 2008
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Tags: Brother Jeb, Bush, Journals, Seafan, Tallahassee, Towels, White House, Yeah Brother
27
Nov
Another coup for Bush.
Of the 375 members of the Iraqi Parliament, only 198 showed up for this vote. (Many had already left on religious pilgrimage to Mecca, some had received death threats.) So, with half the Parliament absent, Bush got his SOFA passed by 37% of the members. Not such *an ove…
Tags: Bush, Coup, Death Threats, Iraqi Parliament, Mecca, Members, Overwhelming Majority, Parliament, Pilgrimage To Mecca, Religious Pilgrimage, Sofa, Vote
27
Nov
This vote is set to occur within hours in Iraq.
While everyone is distracted with Obama’s press conferences, turkey pardons and the Indian terrorist attacks, Bush is end-running around Congress and the American public in his zeal to ink his Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with Iraq, which wou…
Tags: Bush, Congress, English Translation, Iraq, Pardons, Press Conferences, Running, Sofa, Status Of Forces Agreement, Terrorist Attacks, Turkey, Vote, Zeal
26
Nov
Congressional Democrats have spent the past eight years itching for a chance to undo their least favorite Bush-era policies.
Tags: Bush, Congress, Congressional Democrats, Taxes, Top Earners
26
Nov
Congressional Democrats have spent the past eight years itching for a chance to undo their least favorite Bush-era policies.
26
Nov
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Tags: Bush, Wayne Madsen Report
22
Nov
Today, Paul Krugman [link:www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/21/opinion/edkrugman.php|writes:]
[div class="excerpt"]Everyone’s talking about a new New Deal, for obvious reasons. In 2008, as in 1932, a long era of Republican political dominance came to an end in the face of an economic and financial c…
Tags: Abuse And Neglect, Bush, Dragon, Era, Excerpt, Face, New Deal, Paul Krugman, Political Dominance
21
Nov
The outgoing president leaves behind a party that looks less like a coalition than a clubhouse.
Tags: Brownstein, Bush, Clubhouse, Contraction, Gop, Leaves, Outgoing President
21
Nov
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Tags: Bush, Era, ObamaWatch, War Criminals
20
Nov
Commenter frozeneggplant noted this in an earlier thread, but it’s funny enough to amplify:
Oklahoma presidential results, 2004:
Oklahoma presidential results, 2008:
Aside from the fact that not a single county in the state has turned Blue since 2000, look at the toplines:
2004 Votes %
Bush 959,792 66
Kerry 503,966 34
2008 Votes %
McCain 959,745 66
Obama 502,294 34
McCain lost a grand total of 47 votes from Bush’s total four years prior.
Tags: Bush, Grand Total, Kerry, McCainWatch, Nbsp, ObamaWatch
18
Nov
If you mention the economy to anyone say the Bush Recession. If it slips further… the Bush Depression.
We need to get the ownership thing down right now… before January 20.
If we have any of the Dem leaders on the talking head shows… they need to repeat this ad infinitum….
Tags: Bush, Democrat, Depression, Economy, January 20, Netroot, Recession, Slips
18
Nov
A Taliban suicide bomber detonated his payload at the entrance of a government building in Dand near Qandahar, killing 2 policemen and a civilian.
Aljazeera English reports on Taliban activities near Qandahar and speculates that the movement is aiming to come back into the city of its birth. The report quotes a member of the Taliban saying that Obama is no different than Bush and that both are longstanding enemies of his group. The piece also alleges that the Taliban in that area are making over $300 million a year from drug smuggling. $1.5 billion worth of poppy seeds that were to become heroin were seized on Monday.
Tags: Bush, Enemies, Heroin, Payload, Policemen, Poppy Seeds, Qandahar, Suicide Bomber, Taliban
17
Nov
Why do Presidents wait till the last moment to push through changes they’ve had the power to impose all along?
Tags: Bush, Last Moment, New Yorker, Presidents
