George W. Bush Tag

Freudian Tweet of the Day

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 01, 2011 7 Comments

All this talk about Rick Perry being too much like Dubya has infiltrated the brain of the person who tweets for The Hill. From @thehill: From The Hill, at the link in the tweet: Just a mistake, or creating a story?...

Rick Perry’s unannouncement announcement

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 11, 2011 47 Comments

Rick Perry hasn't formally announced that he is running for President, but this interview with Mark Halperin of Time (the guy who famously dropped the "D" bomb on Obama) makes pretty clear Perry is running and that rumors of a rift between Bush and Perry...

San Francisco civility

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 22, 2011 1 Comment

From my recent trip: ...

Remember When Bush Said It No Longer Was Necessary To Kill bin Laden?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 10, 2011 6 Comments

George Bush's supposed walk-away from the hunt for bin Laden has been all over the news, in the blogosphere, and even in the comments here.Everyone points to this video, six months after 9/11.I have pointed out that the video is overstated, because at the time...

Collateral Damage To Anti-Bush Mythology About The Hunt For Bin Laden

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 06, 2011 13 Comments

The relentless banter by the mainstream media and others (including by some in the comments here) is that Bush let bin Laden get away at Tora Bora and gave up the search. As the facts come out in the wake of bin Laden's death, bits...

Condi Rice v Lawrence O’Donnell

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 06, 2011 14 Comments

A person who knows the facts, versus an agenda-driven hack so-called journalist who has all the talking points on the tip of his tongue.The person with the facts wins.Gets particularly interesting around th 8:00 mark, for those of you who have work to do and...

Vindication Overcomes Vindictiveness

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 06, 2011 4 Comments

Like I said:"Obama and his supporters, who opposed the secret intelligence operations and interrogations as illegal, now are reaping the political benefits of those operations and interrogations."Put into poster format, via Jim Geraghty: “VINDICATION: When the loudest critic of your policies achieves his greatest success...

Next Time Use Code Name “Dubya”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 04, 2011 12 Comments

That'll keep 'em happy. Really:The Senate Indian Affairs committee will hold a hearing Thursday on racist Native American stereotypes, a hearing that will now also address the Osama bin Laden mission and the code-name Geronimo.While the hearing was scheduled before the mission, a committee aide...

Imagine What The Numbers Would Look Like If They Said Something Nice About Bush

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 03, 2011 12 Comments

Gallup is out with a poll taken yesterday on the issue of who deserves credit for finding and killing Osama bin Laden.The results are very telling. Understandably, the U.S. military gets the most credit (89% Great Deal, 9% Moderate Amount), followed by the CIA (62/26).Obama has been...

The Irony Grows Deeper – Key Intel Came From Enhanced Interrogations In Secret Prisons

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 02, 2011 9 Comments

It will be interesting to see how this plays out, via AP:Officials say CIA interrogators in secret overseas prisons developed the first strands of information that ultimately led to the killing of Osama bin Laden.Current and former U.S. officials say that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the...

Hmmm … Obama Passed Up Earlier Opportunity To Get Bin Laden

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 02, 2011 10 Comments

So reports Jake Tapper of ABC.Apparently bin Laden's compound was identified positively in March, and the military wanted to drop a dozen or so guided bombs and reduce the compound to ashes. According to Tapper, Obama passed on the request because there would have been...

Hollywood Began Its Campaign To Re-Elect Obama Last Night

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 01, 2011 21 Comments

Barack Obama's speech at the White House correspondents' dinner last night was small and petty. Watch it below, and compare it to similar appearances by George Bush.Bush, who was under attack from the media, academia and the entertainment industry on a scale which makes the "birther"...

How Long Before John Kerry Is Against The Libyan War That He Was For?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 20, 2011 23 Comments

Watching the Sunday morning shows is interesting for the first time in years, if only to see John Kerry and others who have bashed Bush for years spin like out of control tops to justify intervention in Libya on humanitarian grounds.No end game? No problem,...

“Wag the Dog”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 18, 2011 6 Comments

If it were Bush or Clinton, you know we would be hearing about Wag the Dog:How Obama turned on a dime toward war: "At the start of this week, the consensus around Washington was that military action against Libya was not in the cards. However,...

Miss Them Yet?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 26, 2011 7 Comments

Spotted in Ithaca this morning:And while you're at it, don't you miss the old civility? --------------------------------------------Related Posts:Bumper Stickers - The SeriesFollow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTubeVisit the Legal Insurrection Shop on CafePress!...

No, Harsh Critics Of Bush Are Not To Blame For Tucson Shooting

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 17, 2011 11 Comments

As reported by The NY Times (via NRO, h/t Weasel Zippers), Jared Loughner -- among his many mental illnesses -- was caught up in Bush Derangement Syndrome (emphasis added):He became intrigued by antigovernment conspiracy theories, including that the Sept. 11 attacks were perpetrated by the...

Bumper-geddon

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 08, 2010 15 Comments

I was thinking of holding this one back for a special occasion, but I just couldn't wait. If the world were to end tomorrow, I would not want you to perish without having seen this.Sent to me by a reader, this photo was taken in the...

It’s Official – Obama Did Not End The Recession

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 20, 2010 8 Comments

The National Bureau of Economic Research has declared that the recession ended, statistically speaking, in June 2009. As reported by the L.A. Times:Reporting from Washington — The panel of economists that dates the nation's economic cycles declared Monday that the recession that started in December...

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