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Right-wingers go for gold medal in hypocrisy over Obama Chicago bid

By | 10.05.09 | 11:17 am

As conservatives continue to gleefully hurl javelins Barack Obama’s way for his failed bid to even get his adopted hometown of Chicago on the podium for the 2016 Summer Olympics, it’s worth noting Colorado had a viable Plan B…

Dobson on Bush: Greatest president or greatest president ever?

By | 06.10.09 | 7:41 pm

Exhorting the eminence of former President George W. Bush, Focus on the Family’s James Dobson and its new lobbyist Tim Goeglein, who left the White House as a disgraced former aide to Karl Rove, waxed rhapsodic for the better part of 90 minutes on the radio about the former Leader of the Free World’s morality, faith and championing of the antiabortion culture wars.

The stunning three-part “Insider View of the Bush Presidency” discussion culminated today on Focus on the Family’s Daily Broadcast and drew sharp, if unspoken, contrasts with a morally-lacking President Barack Obama.

Right wing writer tabs Bush, Obama in Muslim Brotherhood

By | 06.09.09 | 5:10 pm

CRAZYLAND USA — Center for Security Policy founder, former Reagan Administration arms control adviser and Washington Times Op-Ed writer Frank Gaffney was apparently driven out of his mind by the “revelations” he found buried in the President’s Cairo speech, arguing in the paper today that the speech proved Obama is a Muslim and that even if it didn’t exactly prove Obama is a Muslim, well, then it proved that Obama’s sympathies lie with Muslim extremists!

Haliburton, KBR shareholders sue firms as proxy for Bush-Cheney cronyism

By | 05.15.09 | 12:04 pm

Remember how MBA George W. Bush was going to be our CEO president? How he was going to run the country like he would run a business? Well, on that promise, at least, he delivered.

Americans frustrated by the lack of accountability of the Bush-Cheney administration may get some satisfaction from the knowledge that the Administration ran the main businesses it was tied to the same way it ran the country — and there is some rich accountability taking hold in that realm.

The ultimate Bush Administration torture timeline

By | 04.26.09 | 10:10 am

The New York Times and Sunday morning political talk shows are contorting themselves into linguistically-torturous positions in a feeble attempt to avoid using the word “torture” to describe the immoral and criminal techniques employed at Guantánamo, Abu Ghraib and CIA black sites against suspected al Qaeda-linked prisoners.

Now, Foreign Policy magazine has produced the euphemism-free “ultimate guide to the Bush Administration’s journey to the dark side.”

Mother Jones asks budding video stars for Bush send off

By | 12.28.08 | 10:34 am

Fire up those new holiday gift camcorders and flip cameras to wish the 43rd president a fond farewell.

The White House wishes you ‘A Very Barney Christmas’

By | 12.25.08 | 7:00 am

Special holiday greetings from President Bush, the First Lady and First Family featuring Barney the reporter-chomping First Dog.

Will Bush pardon Cheney & Co. on Christmas Eve?

By | 12.23.08 | 3:41 pm

Noting that George Bush Sr. pardoned the Iran-Contra clan on Christmas eve of 1992, Democrats.com is warning that his son could do something very similar Wednesday: pardon Dick Cheney and the rest of the administration officials who authorized and encouraged the torture and humiliation of “war on terror” detainees.

Manager of swanky Broadmoor terms check card elections ‘un-American’

By | 12.09.08 | 4:44 pm

In a story this week about the proposed federal Employee Free Choice Act, Roll Call evokes those glorious days of Cripple Creek gold fortunes that built Colorado’s historic Broadmoor hotel. Specifically, Broadmoor manager Steve Bartolin opposes the current prospect of required card check elections as “un-American.”

KBDI refuses to delay airing of Guantanamo torture documentary

By | 12.08.08 | 9:57 am

Even as Barack Obama has vowed one of the first acts of his presidency will be to shut down Guantanamo, and even as the topic has been raging in Congress, many Americans will have to wait until the day after George W. Bush leaves office to watch a documentary detailing the horrific policies of his regime.