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“If I catch anyone who leaks in my government,” Bush tells Chrétien in March, 2002, “I would like to string them up by the thumbs — the same way we do with prisoners in Guantanamo.” George Bush to French prime minister Jean Chrétien with thanks to Digby Perhaps this quotation explains why Bush wanted so…

Not only can we not trust current Republican politicians with our Constitution (signing statements, torture, habeus corpus), our government (Katrina, suppression of science), our military (Iraq) or our money (Abramoff, Iraq, the deficit, the economy), you can’t trust Republicans with our kids (Predator Coverup). Come to think of it, I am not sure the picture…

I got up this morning despondent about the latest news over George Bush’s evident desire to torture people, the failure of anyone in office to genuinely stand up to him, and what that says about a country that once deserved to be called great in more than its ability to kill people. How else describe…

The recent Republican attempt to pass a anti-flag burning amendment has an interesting affinity with Fundamentalist Christian’s views of the Bible. Fundamentalists worship the Bible, confusing it with God, but pay remarkably little attention to what it actually says. Orrin Hatch and other Republican thugs worship the flag and pay remarkably little attention “to the…
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