Tag: George W. Bush

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."

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

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

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.

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.”

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.

With all the feather-ruffling this year about Thanksgiving turkey pardons — and Thanksgiving week presidential pardons — it's easy to miss the true spirit of the holiday. The Onion News Network takes a giblet-eyed view of this year's presidential turkey pardon

When President George W. Bush issued 14 pardons on Monday, one stood out in the list of cocaine dealers and bank fraudsters — a Missouri farmer who was convicted more than a decade ago of killing bald eagles.

The news has arrived that the venerable Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs has achieved its 33rd straight five-diamond rating from AAA, one of just three highest-rated hotels in Colorado. In its just-released ratings, AAA doesn’t tie The Broadmoor to the legacy of George W. Bush, but many a Coloradan will forever link the resort to the place where Bush claims he got his last drunk on while wildly celebrating his 40th birthday.

Stop the presses! They have found the guy who’s going to miss George W. Bush! It’s Jim Towey, director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives from 2002 to 2006, and, in a column originally published in The Wall Street Journal, Towney talks about how he’ll miss Bush’s “bedrock decency.”