When asked to comment on the prospect of a run for the Presidency in 2016 by Jeb Bush, he or she said

We've had enough Bushes.

Poll

A Bloomberg News National Poll released Wednesday has Bush receiving a favorable rating from 46 percent of those surveyed and an unfavorable rating from 49 percent. That’s compared to Romney’s 43 percent favorable and 50 percent unfavorable.Everyone is saying "Look how much of a loser Romney is, he's even less liked than Bush II." But that's not ( Read more... )

In 1988, George Bush briefly considered choosing him ((Clint Eastwood)) as his running mate; he picked Dan Quayle instead.

NY Times, on Eastwood's performance at the RNC

The full consequences of a default - or even the serious prospect of default - by the United States are impossible to predict and awesome to contemplate. Denigration of the full faith and credit of the United States would have substantial effects on the domestic financial markets and the value of the dollar in exchange markets. The Nation can ill ( Read more... )

Republicans believe the apocalypse will come if the Republican-Congress-enacted tax increase, scheduled to take place on January 1, 2011, is not repealed. The rich will pack up their belongings and leave for Somalia, socialist Canada, Mars, so the story goes ( Read more... )

I wondered what would happen if I looked at the correlation between unemployment and presidential approval/disapproval ratings, having claimed in a number of comments this last year that the economy is the super-dominant factor in the mood of the country right now and, implicitly, generally how the country views a President.

( Wonder no more )

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“Rumsfeld, what the hell is
going on there? Are you watching what’s
on television? Is that the United States of
America or some Third World nation I’m
watching? What the hell are you doing? ”

-- President Bush screaming at his Secretary of Defense about Rumsfeld's failure to authorize troops to help in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina

Freedom from torture is an inalienable human right. The Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment, ratified by the United States and more than 130 other countries since 1984, forbids governments from deliberately inflicting severe physical or mental pain or suffering on those within their custody or controlNotorious ( Read more... )

"The Bush White House vehemently objected to provisions of the law dealing with rape by instrumentality. When House negotiators pressed to know why, they were met first with silence and then an embarrassed acknowledgement that a key part of the Bush program included invasion of the bodies of prisoners in a way that might be deemed rape by ( Read more... )