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Are They Serious?
By Eugene Robinson, Washington Post Today’s topic is credibility – specifically, recent claims by certain high-ranking present, former and perhaps soon-to-be-former Bush administration officials. The aim is to answer a simple question: Should we believe these three Bush loyalists if they tell us that rain falls down instead of up, or should we look out…
Bush’s Gravest Impeachable Crime
DAVE LINDORFF, afterdowningstreet.org When my co-author Barbara Olshansky and I wrote The Case for Impeachment during the waning months of 2005 and early 2006, it seemed clear to us that the biggest impeachable crimes of the Bush regime involved the illegal war against Iraq, and the trashing of the rights and civil liberties enshrined in…
Hang In There, America: Competent Leadership Is Just 600-Plus Days Away
By Joseph L. Galloway, McClatchy Newspapers As of May 17th, there were 613 days left until Jan. 20, 2009, and the end of our long national nightmare as President George W. Bush and his Rasputin, Vice President Dick Cheney, shuffle off to their necessarily well-guarded retirement homes and onto the ash heap of history. So…
