Category Archives: Bush Legacy Project

Flashback To The Bush Administration’s Obsession With Bombing Al Jazeera

It’s been some years since the Bad Old Days of the Bush administration’s war on everything– including journalism. So, with Al Jazeera’s move to the U.S., Conservatives are taking a familiar position on their corporate-sponsored airwaves getting an early start … Continue reading
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Expensive Photo Ops

From commenter Kyle via e-mail: I managed to locate one of the photos taken during the big, expensive Presidential jet flight photo op! Check it out.

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The Hero of 9/11

When I watch My Pet Goat in real time juxtaposed with the tragedy of that morning, I can’t help but to think how quickly the president shown in this video would’ve been disgraced by the media and impeached by Congress … Continue reading

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Heckuva Job

More from Yglesias.

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Your Tax Dollars At Work

Unless you’re eating, check out this “Keeping America Safe” video at the White House website. While exploiting showing various photographs of 9/11 devastation, President Bush says that September 11 was, “the most significant attack in our nation’s history.” Not to … Continue reading

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I Curse That Goddamn Bankruptcy Law

Another piece of the awesome Bush Legacy: There’s no shortage of blame for the mortgage crisis that drove the economy into the ditch. But here’s a fresh culprit: the 2005 bankruptcy reform act, which was strongly pushed by the credit … Continue reading

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More Awesome Bush Legacy

Bin Laden? Still at large.

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Fred Barnes Is Insane

Freddie the Beetle Barnes constructed a list of President Bush’s top ten greatest achievements (summarized/paraphrased here): 10. Ignoring the climate crisis and Kyoto. 9. Torture! (Seriously!) 8. Eavesdropping and generally deceiving the public 7. Supporting Israel (Barnes writes: “Bush was … Continue reading

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The Bush Legacy In Graphic Form

Courtesy of The Atlantic.

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The Bush numbers according to NBC: UNEMPLOYMENT RATE Then: 4.2% (Bureau of Labor Statistics, January 2001) Now: 6.7% (Bureau of Labor Statistics, November 2008) DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE Then: 10,587 (close of Friday, Jan. 19, 2001) Now: 9,015 (close of … Continue reading

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