George W. Bush

Bush speaking today about the Georgia conflict:

"Bullying and intimidation are not acceptable ways to conduct foreign policy in the 21st century."

Not acceptable unless your name is George Bush. His foreign policy has been based on nothing but "bullying and intimidation". Just ask Iraq.

He is giving the next President a record deficit. What a guy he is!

That's what we been told for months now, but McCain seems to think differently:

Presumptive Republican nominee John McCain yesterday credited the recent $10-a-barrel drop in the price of oil to President Bush’s lifting of a ban on offshore drilling, an action McCain has been advocating.

Really? So then why didn't Bush lift the ban months ago, instead of letting the American people suffer?

Of course we are talking about John McCain, a man who will say anything to get elected. So what really is behind the oil price drop? Things like a rise in inflation, as well as a slowing U.S. economy. Also demand for oil has dropped to the lowest level since January 2007. These are the factors causing the price drop, not some bullshit Republican position. Nice try on spinning McCain.

Bush's veto of the Medicare bill early has been overridden by Congress. Here are the numbers:

House: 383-41
Senate:70-26

Not sure if McCain showed up for the vote, but I highly doubt it.

The bill does have a veto proof majority in both houses, so it might get overturned. The big question - will John McCain show up to help insure the veto gets overturned, or will he miss it and try to claim victory if it succeeds? This is what he did on the original vote - wouldn't say anything about it, but didn't show up to vote for or against it (and was the only Senator who missed the vote). Of course once it passed, McCain acted like he was all for it.

Bush is lifting the executive ban on offshore drilling, put in place by his father. Does that mean that gas prices are cheaper now? If you listen to Republicans, they would have you believe that the instant more offshore drilling is allowed that prices will decline. Welcome to their fantasy land!

That's how much the dollar has dropped during Bush's term. What a legacy builder!

Dennis Kucinich filed 35 articles of impeachment against George W. Bush last night:

Rep. Dennis Kucinich, a former Democratic presidential contender, said Monday he wants the House to consider a resolution to impeach President Bush.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi consistently has said impeachment was "off the table."

Kucinich, D-Ohio, read his proposed impeachment language in a floor speech. He contended Bush deceived the nation and violated his oath of office in leading the country into the Iraq war.

This AP article, which is written more like some high school lecture notes, is interesting. This isn't the only place I had seen the reminder of Pelosi's "impeachment of the table" comment last night. Malkin even brought that up:

Will Pelosi’s pledge to keep impeachment “off the table” hold?

I would have to say Pelosi was speaking for herself. I highly doubt the Speaker of the House was telling all members of Congress what resolutions they were allowed/not allowed to introduce. Also, wasn't this statement made by Pelosi way before we had a former White House official saying the President deceived this country into war? Those new revelations should make all Pelosi's previous commments null and void.

Speaking of Scott McClellan and Michelle Malkin, on the same post Malkin posts an update at 9:35pm EST, saying that Robert Wexler is trying to get McClellan to testify before the House Judiciary Committee. Perhaps Malkin should turn off FOX news every once in awhile, because an hour before this "update", Scott was on Countdown telling Keith he would be testifying. Here's the clip from that interview:

Yup, if you want to stay uninformed, head on over to Malkin's blog and read away.

First the good news:

Presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama holds a six point lead over his Republican counterpart John McCain, a new CBS News poll finds. Obama leads McCain 48 percent to 42 percent among registered voters, with 6 percent of respondents undecided.

Then the good news:

President Bush's approval rating is at its lowest level to date. Just 25 percent of Americans approve of the overall job Mr. Bush is doing as President, an all-time low for him and among the lowest approval ratings ever recorded for a President.

McCain = Bush is a great campaign strategy to run on this year. I'm curious to see how much more lower he goes when it gets around that Bush did lie us into war and we now have an investigation that proves it.

And it's disturbing indeed:

A longtime high school wrestling coach has lost his job amid concerns a former assistant coach tried to convert Muslim students to Christianity.

The Detroit News reports 35-year coach Jerry Marszalek's contract with Fordson High School in Dearborn, Mich., was not renewed. The decision was supported by 200 to 300 parents, who packed a Board of Education meeting Tuesday to support the principal's decision.

So we now have coaches trying to convert Muslins? I wonder if he is handing out little coins with biblical verses on it also?

We are conducting a "crusade":

At the western entrance to the Iraqi city of Fallujah Tuesday, Muamar Anad handed his residence badge to the U.S. Marines guarding the city. They checked to be sure that he was a city resident, and when they were done, Anad said, a Marine slipped a coin out of his pocket and put it in his hand.

Out of fear, he accepted it, Anad said. When he was inside the city, the college student said, he looked at one side of the coin. "Where will you spend eternity?" it asked.

He flipped it over, and on the other side it read, "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. John 3:16."

The article goes on to say numerous Marines are handing these out, which begs the question - where did they get them? I really doubt there's any Family Christian Stores located in Fallujah. If our tax dollars are going to these coins then we have an even bigger problem. Propaganda is something this administration is good at, but religious propaganda pushed onto other nations violates everything this country was founded on. Hopefully some in Congress will ask about this and find out the truth.

That's what Jim Web said about George Bush this morning if he goes through with his threatened veto of the GI Bill:

More at Think Progress.

That's how our great leader described the future of the economy today:

President Bush said Friday the slow growth of the economy is "not good enough for America," but new rebate checks will inject some life soon.

"This economy is going to come on," Bush said. "I'm confident it will."

Yeah those checks are going to help so much. I might buy a new house , or even a new car. Hey! How about a luxury European trip?

So Bush is supposed to make a big speech today on climate change. The problem is he still doesn't want to do anything:

Bush will speak forcefully about concerns he has over a possible rush to address the Earth's warming through a hodgepodge of regulations under existing federal laws such as the Clean Air Act and the Endangered Species Act.

Senior White House officials last week told a group of conservative Republican lawmakers in a private meeting that the administration wants Congress to act on climate change to avoid regulating carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping - or greenhouse - gases under existing laws.

Perino says the administration is concerned about a potential regulatory "train wreck" as a result of climate-related court rulings.

Yeah because regulation has killed the economies of Europe, Australia and others. That's why we dominate all of them. Just when you think Bush couldn't be anymore dumb, he proves you wrong.

During Petraeus' testimony on the Hill, he constantly referred to the terrible state Iraq was in during 2006, and even went as far as referring to it as a "civil war". Last night Dan Abrams took us down memory lane to 2006 and showed how many times Bush, along with the rest of the administration, denounced it being a civil war and talked about how great things were in Iraq.

So now the question must be asked to both Petraeus and Bush; who is the liar? Someone clearly is. The American people, the troops and the Iraqi people deserve the truth in this war. The liar of what is happening needs to be exposed. For some reason I doubt that liar is the one in a military uniform.