"George W. Bush, appearing on Fox News Sunday confirmed that he's planning
on writing a book. Bush admitted he'll use a ghost writer because if it is
about his presidency it'll be a horror book."
- Pedro Bartes
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To Do List
http://thehill.com/images/stories/weyants/2009/January/cartoon011409.jpg
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"When I get out of here, I am getting off the stage. I have had my time in
the Klieg lights."
- President George W. Bush, Jan 12, 2009
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Dubya's Last Friday.... shite, that sounds good!
Did I say "good"? f...@#k, it's GREAT!
Great?!? It's FANTASTIC!!!!!
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Praying?
http://media.timesfreepress.com/img/photos/2009/01/09/090110_the_legacy.jpg
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"After eight years, it is kind of sad President Bush had his final press
conference. And you know what that means for us here at the "Late Show."
We're going to have to start writing our own comedy again."
- David Letterman
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"According to the Washington Post, White House interns were forced to fill
empty seats in Bush's last press conference. Apparently, most of reporters
refused to attend the event due to the new no-shoe-policy."
- Pedro Bartes
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Legacy Tour
http://wpcomics.washingtonpost.com/feature/09/01/12/db090112.gif
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"President Bush did take credit for a couple of things. He said, you know,
Dick Cheney hasn't shot anybody in a couple of years. So that's always
good, right?"
- David Letterman
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Bush Portrait Label To Be Corrected
http://tinyurl.com/7qo87x
National Portrait Gallery director Martin E. Sullivan replied today to a
letter sent Jan. 7 by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who was concerned about
an inaccuracy in a museum wall label next to the newly acquired official
portrait of President Bush. The National Portrait Gallery is a branch of
the Smithsonian Institution.
The original label said "the attacks on September 11, 2001... led to wars
in Afghanistan and Iraq." Sanders objected to the link between 9/11 and
the Iraq invasion.
In his letter, Sullivan agreed to make the change: "Our label was not
intended to imply that there was a causal connection between the attacks
that occurred on 9/11 and the subsequent U.S. invasion of Iraq...I
appreciate your concern, however, about the words 'led to.' We will revise
the label and delete the words 'led to.'" Sanders expressed his gratitude
for the prompt response and the correction.
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What the caption SHOULD say:
"Mr. Bush, through his lack of vision and lack of character, triggered the
steepest decline in American and world history. Under his flawed
stewardship, the Constitution was regularly breached without redress,
thousands of citizens were killed and maimed pointlessly in misguided wars
sold on false pretenses, the nation's treasury was bankrupted, corruption
penetrated every corner of government and society, the US and global
economies crashed in the worst crisis in the last 70 years, and what was
perhaps the last, best chance to prevent catastrophic greenhouse effects
was foregone.
Moreover, through his stolen election, subsequent actions, and success in
deflecting justice, Bush effectively reversed the two-century-long global
march toward what previously appeared to be an inevitable arrival of
democracy in all the nations of the earth - a truly stunning and
world-historic achievement."
- Minerva (DailyKos.com)
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"I would like to be a person remembered as a person who, first and
foremost, did not sell his soul in order to accommodate the political
process. I came to Washington with a set of values, and I'm leaving with
the same set of values."
- President George W. Bush
Interview with (sister) Doro Bush Koch, November 12, 2008
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"Did not sell his soul"??
Sonuvabitch didn't have to "sell his soul," he sold ours!!!
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At his last White House press conference, there was an awkward moment when
President Bush was asked how he would defend his legacy, Bush said, "To be
honest, I don't play those complicated video games."
- Alex Kaseberg
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Dubya, Drawn and Quartered
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/01/bye-bye-bush-slideshow200901
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"A federal judge has ordered a search of White House employees' computers
before members of the Bush administration leave. Security officials want
to see the Press Secretary's personal notes, the Chief of Staff's internal
communications and Pres. Bush's high scores in Donkey Kong."
- Jerry Perisho
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The Bush Verdict Is In
http://tinyurl.com/98gr57
.. Here is Bush's legacy, in part:
He took the nation to a war of choice under false pretenses -- and left
troops in harm's way on two fields of battle. He embraced torture as an
interrogation tactic and turned the world's champion of human dignity into
an outlaw nation and international pariah. He watched with detachment as a
major American city went under water. He was ostensibly at the helm as the
worst financial crisis since the Great Depression took hold. He went from
being the most popular to the most disappointing president, having
squandered a unique opportunity to unite the country and even the world
behind a shared agenda after Sept. 11. He set a new precedent for avoiding
the general public in favor of screened audiences and seemed to occupy an
alternate reality. He took his own political party from seeming permanent
majority status to where it is today. And he deliberately politicized the
federal government, circumvented the traditional policymaking process,
ignored expert advice and suppressed dissent, leaving behind a broken
government. ...
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"Today was President Bush's last Cabinet meeting. At one point, Bush got
emotional and said, 'I never got to find out what HUD means.'"
- Conan O'Brien
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"President Bush draped the Medal of Freedom on Britain's former prime
minister Tony Blair and Australia's former prime minister John Howard
Tuesday. It's no surprise. Every leader that President Bush overthrows
winds up with something around his neck."
- Argus Hamilton
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Awards Time
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/cartoon/2009/jan/14/tony-blair-george-bush
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"President Bush has asked all the major networks for 15 minutes of air
time on Thursday to give his farewell speech to the nation. Well, the
White House says he's going to use part of the time to list his
accomplishments. No word yet what he's going to do with the other 14
minutes."
- Jay Leno
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My Fellow Americans....
http://tinyurl.com/8br6jy
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Report Raps Bradley Schlozman, Former Justice Department Official, for
Political Bias
http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/DOJ/story?id=6637861
A former Justice Department official discriminated against liberal job
applicants at the department and then made false statements to Congress on
the matter, according to a Justice Department report released Tuesday.
The probe, conducted by two watchdog groups within the department,
reviewed "allegations that political or ideological affiliations were
considered in hiring, transferring and assigning cases to career attorneys
in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice," specifically
under former DOJ official Bradley Schlozman, who held an interim post at
the head of the division.
According to the report, Schlozman circumvented many of his colleagues and
arranged the hiring of lesser-qualified applicants based on their
conservative political ideology.
The jobs involved were not political appointments but career positions for
which candidates, according to federal law and guidelines, are to be
selected for their qualifications, not their political or ideological
leanings. ...
After their review of e-mails and other messages from Schlozman and
interviews with his former colleagues, the investigators found that he
"favored applicants with conservative political or ideological
affiliations and disfavored applicants with civil rights or human rights
experience whom he considered to be overly liberal." ...
Schlozman testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in June 2007,
and under questioning from lawmakers, he said that he "did not" violate
government statutes, which state that a candidate's political ideology
cannot be considered when hiring for a so-called career position.
Based on Schlozman's statements during the hearing and his written
responses to lawmakers' questions, investigators concluded that he was not
truthful in his testimony. ...
Schlozman, who now works for a law firm in Wichita, Kan., resigned from
the department in September 2007, so he will not face any reprimand from
the government. As noted in the report and by Jordan, the U.S. Attorney's
office in Washington, D.C., received the report last year but declined to
take any action against Schlozman. ...
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"Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and
what is right to do."
- Potter Stewart
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Doesn't it seem a little odd that when you have a former ball player, like
Roger Clemens, who allegedly lies to Congress about steroid use in
baseball, the U.S. Attorney for DC convenes a grand jury to consider a
perjury indictment, but when an official of the Justice Department, like
Bradley Schlozman, allegedly (but very documented!) lies to Congress about
trying to politicize the civil service within DOJ, the U.S. Attorney for
DC passes on further investigation or prosecution?
Which really seems like the more significant problem for the country?
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"Hollywood director Ron Howard said his movie Frost/Nixon prompts
comparisons between President Nixon and President Bush. It's not fair.
They both waged hugely unpopular wars, they both had low approval ratings,
they both subverted the Constitution, but Nixon is considered the better
president because he got his picture taken with Elvis."
- Argus Hamilton
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What's It Like....
http://images.ucomics.com/comics/db/2009/db090113.gif
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"Did you see President Bush got emotional at his last press conference? It
was awkward, Bush choked up when they told him he doesn't get to keep Air
Force One."
- Alex Kaseberg
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Let The Bidding Begin: Dick Cheney's Writing A Book
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/01/dick-cheney.html
[M]ost everybody pictured Vice President Cheney next week heading out of
Dodge after the inauguration and virtually four decades of inside
government experience -- and fishing, enjoying Wyoming, "family", creeping
out his six grandchildren, shooting people in the face, pulling the wings
off flies, all that.
He will.
But Cheney, the silent sly one who's words were mostly saved for the ears
of the president, just told Sean Hannity today that he's seriously
considering writing a book.
"I never have," Cheney said. "and my family has been bugging me about it.
I've got 40 years since I came to town to stay 12 months. I've got a lot
of stories to tell. And a few scores to settle." ...
[okay, some of that might be made up.... but it's still true!]
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My Life as the Most Appropriately Named VP in History
- by "Dick" Cheney
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Other Possible Book Titles:
- Crude Oil Soup For The Soulless
- How To Make "A Killing" In Foreign Real Estate
- World Domination For Dummies
- The Definitive Guide To 'Secure Locations'
- A Chicken Hawk Retrospective:
Holes I've Been Hiding In And The Rock I Crawled Out From Under
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"The price of a barrel of oil went DOWN to $37.00 Monday, while gas prices
went UP by 17 cents. 'Imagine that,' said Dick Cheney."
- Gorsefeathers
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Finally Back To Normal!
http://www.theonion.com/content/cartoon/jan-12-2009
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Vice Presidential Handlers Lure Cheney Into Traveling Crate
http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/vice_presidential_handlers
A team of nine specially trained handlers have successfully lured outgoing
vice president Dick Cheney into a reinforced steel traveling crate in
order to transport him back to his permanent enclosure in Casper, WY,
official sources reported Monday.
"He's a smart one. Once he sees the crate, he gets pretty nippy, but we've
learned a few tricks over the years," chief VP wrangler Ted Irving
breathlessly said while applying pressure to a deep gash on his forearm.
"If we break a rabbit's legs and throw it in there, he will eventually go
in to finish it off. Doesn't work with dead rabbits, though. Cheney only
eats what he kills."
Irving said that the latest vice presidential relocation went much more
smoothly than September's diplomatic trip to Georgia, which was delayed
for several hours after Cheney mauled three secret service agents and
escaped inside the White House walls.
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"The USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier was commissioned in Norfolk
Saturday. It's the last Nimitz-class aircraft carrier. His son will have a
destroyer named after him in honor of all he's done for the economy, the
Middle East and the Republican Party."
- Argus Hamilton
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The New New Deal
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/01/14/fiorenewnewDTL
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"According to a recent survey, 35% of workers didn't get a raise last
year. The other 65% got fired."
- Pedro Bartes
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President Bush has been taking some criticism for all the species he has
tried to take off the Endangered Species list. In his defense, think of
all those he has added.... like the middle class.
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Tough Economic Times....
http://cagle.com/working/090114/holbert.jpg
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"Wall Street swindler Bernie Madoff was permitted by a judge Monday to
stay under house arrest in his Park Avenue condo. Prosecutors wanted him
in jail. The judge won't send Bernard Madoff to jail, he's afraid it will
corrupt the petty thieves."
- Argus Hamilton
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Made in the USA
http://us.cnn.com/POLITICS/analysis/toons/2009/01/09/mitchell/
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Americans used to regard Canadian money as loony until Dubya rendered our
dollar crappy....
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"The U.S. Navy commissioned the aircraft carrier George H.W. Bush on
Saturday. It's so huge it can single-handedly bottle up the Persian Gulf
and drive up oil prices. They would have named it after a member of the
Bush family no matter who was president."
- Argus Hamilton
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That's All Folks!
http://cagle.com/working/090114/markstein.jpg
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Jan. 20, 2009....
The Day America Shaves Its Bush.
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