A Collapsing Presidency, by Paul Craig Roberts, 20 Mar 2006 Related Topic: Constitution of the United States "Neocons do not believe in the US Constitution, civil liberties, the separation of powers ... According to published reports, President Bush described the Constitution as 'a scrap of paper.' Bush's attorney general, vice president, and secretary of defense ..., in violation of their oath of office, have openly declared that Bush, as commander-in-chief, is above the law."
Bush Is About To Attack Iran: Why Can’t Americans See It?, by Paul Craig Roberts, 27 Jan 2007 Related Topic: Iran "The American public and the US Congress are getting their backs up about the Bush Regime's determination to escalate the war in Iraq. ... This is all to the good. However, it misses the real issue – the Bush Regime's looming attack on Iran. ... Bush dismissed congressional disapproval with his statement, 'I'm the decision-maker.'"
Bush's Doublethink, by Sheldon Richman, 19 Jan 2007 "Bush says what he needs to say in order to justify whatever it is he wants to do. The standard isn't truth and logic but appearance. ... Bush may practice Orwellian doublethink, the ability to hold two contradictory ideas at once, never letting himself see that both can't be true."
Bush's Learning Problem, by Joseph Sobran, The Reactionary Utopian, 12 Oct 2006 "... learning to play chess ... When you move a piece, you have to think about how your opponent may respond to it. I guess President Bush never learned that lesson. A few years ago, he was using expressions like regime change, axis of evil, global democratic revolution, and ridding the earth of tyranny without stopping to think how his opponents might react."
Bush's Place in History, by Joseph Sobran, The Reactionary Utopian, 6 May 2006 "Back in 2000, candidate George W. Bush described himself as 'a uniter, not a divider.' ... during the 2004 campaign, the polls strongly indicated that America was evenly divided again. ... Bush won a decisive victory ... boasting of his 'political capital.' Only a few months after his second inauguration, that capital was exhausted."
Bush's Wartime Dictatorship: The threat of presidential supremacism, by Justin Raimondo, 21 Dec 2005 "The new presidential absolutism infuses not only Bush's foreign policy, which asserts the 'right' of the White House to make war on anyone, anywhere, anytime, and for any reason, but also, increasingly, his domestic policies. ... in response to the NSA revelations, the president summoned the executive editor and the publisher of the New York Times to the Oval Office ... "
Editorial: Presidential absolutism: Bush claims unlimited surveillance powers, The Sacramento Bee, 13 Jan 2007 "If Bush doesn't like a law passed by Congress, he should veto it. Clearly, our system of separation of powers is in doubt as the president claims unilateral powers to do whatever he wants. More than 200 years after Americans rejected the tyrannical acts of King George III, we've got another George with kingly pretensions that need to be checked."
Elizabeth de la Vega, Bringing Bush to Court, by Elizabeth de la Vega, Tomgram, 27 Nov 2006 "... I intend to present a hypothetical indictment to a hypothetical grand jury. The defendants are President George W. Bush ... If the indictment and grand jury are hypothetical, the evidence is not. I've prepared for this case, just as I would have done for any other case in my years as a prosecutor, by reviewing all of the available relevant information."
More Bush Insults, by Sheldon Richman, 12 Oct 2005 "Everybody is good at something, and George Bush is good at insulting our intelligence. ... To be fair, we can't be sure if Bush presumes we are morons or if he is sincerely ignorant. For Muslims, Arabs, and many Americans, U.S. intervention in Iraq had been an issue for 10 years before September 11, 2001."
Mr. Bush, Meet Walter Jones, by Patrick J. Buchanan, 16 Jan 2007 "If tomorrow Bush took out Iran's nuclear facilities, would a Senate that lacks the courage to cut funds for an unpopular war really impeach him for denying a nuclear capability to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? ... Asked if Congress could stop him from surging 21,500 troops into Iraq, Bush on 60 Minutes brushed aside Congress as irrelevant."
Outsourcing Torture, by Sheldon Richman, 29 Sep 2006 "If you want to see the bare essence of the Bush administration, behold its policy of 'rendition.' ... Can anyone with a sense of justice or humane bone in his body defend such a shameful policy? ... This is America under George W. Bush. It's not the America we learned about growing up. Something has gone badly wrong. When will we do something about it?"
Slipped His Moorings, by Charley Reese, 9 Sep 2006 Related Topic: Terrorism "The president, I believe, is desperate to be what he knows he is not — a great man. He has fantasized that he is a second Winston Churchill leading the forces of democracy in a great crusade against the forces of darkness. The only trouble is, there is nobody out there in the dark."
The Case for Impeachment: Why we can no longer afford George W. Bush, by Lewis H. Lapham, Harper's Magazine, 27 Feb 2006 "We have before us in the White House a thief who steals the country's good name and reputation for his private interest and personal use; a liar who seeks to instill in the American people a state of fear; a televangelist who engages the United States in a never-ending crusade against all the world's evil, a wastrel ..."
The George W. Bush 'What Me Worry?' Quiz, by Jim Cox, 2 Apr 2007 "When the Taliban in Afghanistan offered to turn over Osama Bin Laden to the U.S. in the fall 2001 if evidence were provided of his involvement in the 9/11 attacks, the response of George W. Bush was to: a. immediately work with the Afghan government to provide the evidence as a better solution than a war in which hundreds of American soldiers would die. ..."
The Price of Bush, by Joseph Sobran, 11 Oct 2005 "... he looks unexpectedly desperate, confused, ineffectual. What does he stand for? Only one thing: the failed war he has already staked his reputation on. He has subordinated everything to that, and in its absence it would be impossible to name any philosophy, conservative or otherwise, he could be identified with."
The Repudiation of Bush, by Sheldon Richman, 10 Nov 2006 Related Topic: Democratic Party "It's reasonable to conclude from the election results that most voters felt the Republicans had been in power too long. ... all culminated in a thunderous repudiation of President Bush and the Republican Party. ... The voters might have thrown Bush out of office if they had the chance. Maybe that knowledge will motivate the president to begin undoing his many mistakes."
A Democratic Dictatorship, by Jacob G. Hornberger, Freedom Daily, May 2006 Related Topics: Democracy, Terrorism "Bush is effectively interpreting it to mean that Congress granted him what the German Enabling Act granted Hitler — the power to override constitutional protections of civil liberties. ... There is no merit whatsoever ... to Bush's argument that the Constitution grants omnipotent powers to a president when he puts on the helmet of a military commander in chief."
Bush Broke the Law, by Charley Reese, 31 Jan 2006 Related Topics: Right Against Unreasonable Searches and Seizures "... the president appears to have violated both the law and the Constitution. A recent Zogby poll revealed that 52 percent of Americans think that if this is proven to be true, then the president should be impeached. This is a most serious issue. It goes to the question, Is the president above the law?"
Bush's Secret Surveillance State, by Anthony Gregory, 26 Dec 2005 Related Topics: Right Against Unreasonable Searches and Seizures "By December 19, ... Attorney General Alberto Gonzales went so far as to say that the president had the 'inherent authority' to perform such secret, warrantless searches of people in the United States. ... Will the president actually get away with such blatant disregard for the Bill of Rights, the balance of powers, ..."
Bush's Signing Statement Dictatorship, by James Bovard, 9 Oct 2006 Related Topics: Rule of Law "Bush is apparently convinced that he is entitled to govern in secrecy, and any provision of a law to the contrary violates his imperial prerogatives. George W. Bush has added more than 800 'signing statements' to new laws since he took office. Earlier presidents occasionally appended such comments to new statutes, but Bush is the first to use signing statements routinely to nullify key provisions of new laws."
Do Elections Guarantee Freedom?, by James Bovard, Freedom Daily, Nov 2007 Related Topics: Voting, Constitution of the United States, Government, Lyndon B. Johnson, Ronald W. Reagan Discusses whether democratic elections achieve the purported objective of "will of the people" controlling the government "Two days after his 2004 reelection victory, President George W. Bush declared, 'When you win, there is a feeling that the people have spoken and embraced your point of view ... and the people made it clear what they wanted.' But did voters on November 2 'consent' to the destruction of Fallujah in the following weeks? Did they consent to the nomination of a Homeland Security czar who was openly hostile to any criticism of politicians?"
Dubya and Dubai, by J. Neil Schulman, Rational Review, 22 Feb 2006 Related Topics: Dubai "The purchase of the British company P&O, which has been operating our ports, by the Dubai Ports World company, which is wholly owned by the government of the United Arab Emirates, was approved in secret by the Bush administration, likely months ago. ... Bush is a moron when it comes to PR, and apparently his advisors are no better."
Free Speech on the Ropes, by James Bovard, Freedom Daily, Jan 2006 Related Topics: Freedom of Speech, Ron Paul "Bursey later commented, ... Bush gets off the plane. And I can see the whole tableau through the bars in the paddy wagon. He goes inside the hangar and gives this speech where he says they hate us because we're so free, and here I am handcuffed in the back of a paddy wagon, thinking, 'No, Mr. Bush, they don't hate us because we're free. They hate us because we're hypocrites.'"
George W. Bush's Nixonomics, by Gregory Bresiger, Mises.org Daily Article, 22 May 2006 Related Topics: Richard M. Nixon, Gold Standard, Social Security Tax "President George W. Bush's statist policies should not been viewed as a departure from the Republican traditions. Bush's economic policies are a continuation of Nixonomics. We should also understand that Bush, like Nixon, cannot resist the political temptation of public-sector spending and various price controls to achieve short-term political goals."
Glorious War!, by Joseph Sobran, The Reactionary Utopian, 31 Aug 2006 Related Topics: War, Republican Party "The presidency of George W. Bush has been one long object lesson in unintended consequences. It's amusing to recall that his father was kidded for using the phrase wouldn't be prudent, an expression the son could profitably adopt."
Hidden Government, by Sheldon Richman, 1 Sep 2006 Related Topics: Government, Lebanon "Reporting by Seymour Hersh ... and other sources indicate that the Bush administration actively helped the Israeli government plan an attack on Lebanon. ... I don't recall the 2004 presidential candidates debating whether the government should have the power to help other governments, funded and armed by American taxpayers, make war against civilian populations. Where did President Bush find this blank check?"
Is This Really War?, by Sheldon Richman, 16 Jun 2006 Related Topics: Iraq War (2003), Haditha Massacre "President Bush invaded Iraq, a country that represented no threat to the American people or the territory of the United States. In other words, the U.S. forces that bomb and shoot Iraqis don't have to be there. They are not responding to impending danger to Americans."
Least We Forget, by Paul Craig Roberts, 25 Feb 2006 Related Topics: Communism "It is a great lie that America needs to give up its civil liberties, the separation of powers, the Geneva Conventions, and humane treatment of prisoners in order to defend itself against terrorism. If these are the Bush regime's terms for protection, Americans need quickly to find another government."
Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski: U.S. Air Force, 1983-2003, by Brian Lamb, Q & A (C-SPAN), 2 Apr 2006 Related Topics: Karen Kwiatkowski, Military Industrial Complex, Why We Fight Transcript and Real Audio "... we all know from the Bush Administration his most important criteria is loyalty, and I think this warped sense of loyalty, not to the Constitution of course, which is what we as military officers swear to uphold, the Constitution, all enemies foreign and domestic, ... you've got to remember that, the loyalty is not to that. The loyalty is to the people and to the agenda ..."
Machiavelli and U.S. Politics, Part 3: Lies and Appearances, by Lawrence M. Ludlow, 19 Aug 2005 Related Topics: Politics, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Ronald W. Reagan "The president has a bad habit of approving bailouts for failed airlines, throwing money into the bottomless pit of medical-benefit entitlements, signing lard-filled highway bills, and stuffing the coffers of public schools that regularly churn out bumper crops of criminals and nitwits in roughly equal proportion."
Mr. Bush, Mind Your Own Business, by Sheldon Richman, 21 Oct 2005 Related Topics: The Free Market "So President Bush wants us to conserve gasoline by driving less. Cut out the nonessential car trips, he says. ... in America (why doesn't he know this?) each of us is supposed to be free to decide for himself what's essential. ... Americans should be offended when a president (who died and made him king?) sticks his nose into their personal business."
That Death Toll, by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., 21 Jun 2006 Related Topics: Iraq War (2003), War "The Bush administration is ensconced in its marble castles in Washington, D.C., and meets average soldiers only in carefully managed PR events. ... The only real moral issue that strikes the Bush administration — which is directly responsible for every one of these lost lives — is annoyance that anyone would be upset."
The 9/11 Servility Reflex, by James Bovard, Freedom Daily, Dec 2007 Related Topics: September 11, 2001, Government Discusses how the general American public reacted after the 9/11 attacks and how the 9/11 Commission and the mainstream media helped reinforce that reaction "The 9/11 Commission became the Bush administration's most famous faith-based initiative. The commission appeared far more concerned with restoring trust than in revealing truth. Bush and Cheney were allowed to testify without a transcript and not under oath. Americans never heard what they said. ... The White House was allowed to edit the final version of the commission's report before it was publicly released."
The Abominations of War: From My Lai to Haditha, by Cindy Sheehan, 5 Jun 2006 Related Topics: War, Haditha Massacre, Iraq War (2003) "In a stunning display of shameless hypocrisy George Bush said of the (not uncommon) butchering of innocent civilians in Haditha: 'Our troops have been trained on core values throughout their training, but obviously there was an incident that took place in Iraq.'"
Wilson in the Mirror, by John M. Peters, 23 May 2006 Related Topics: Woodrow Wilson, Foreign Entanglements, War "Both Presidents would realize the opposite of their stated goals. ... Bush is blamed for making America feared and despised across the globe, giving rise to Islamic-based governments, creating an enhanced terrorist threat, and abandoning constitutional protections for Americans."
“Free-Speech Zone”: The administration quarantines dissent, by James Bovard, The American Conservative, 15 Dec 2003 Related Topics: Freedom of Speech "Secret Service agent Brian ... Marr's comments are a mockery of this country's rich heritage of vigorous protests. Somehow, all of a sudden, after George W. Bush became president people became so stupid that federal agents had to cage them to prevent them from walking out in front of speeding vehicles."
That Darn Dictator!, by Mark Fiore, 21 Nov 2007 Related Topics: Pakistan "Starring those inseparable pals, General Musharraf & George W. Bush!"
Books
The Bush Betrayal, by James Bovard, 7 Aug 2004 Electronic text of first chapter available at Future of Freedom Foundation "This book does not aim to analyze all Bush policies. Instead, it examines an array of his domestic and foreign actions that vivify the damage Bush is inflicting and the danger he poses both to America and the world. Bush governs like an elective monarch, entitled to reverence and deference on all issues."
Attention Deficit Democracy, by James Bovard, 10 Jan 2006 Related Topics: Democracy, Voting Electronic text of Introduction available at LewRockwell.com "The same types of myths have grown up around democracy that long propped up monarchs. In the 1500s, peasants were encouraged to believe that the king was chosen by God to serve His purposes on Earth. Today, Americans are encouraged to believe that Bush’s reelection victory is a sign of God’s approval of Bush’s reign."
Bush Speaks the Truth (Election 2000 Debates), 2000 Audio clips and photos of then Governor George Bush during the Presidential debates, particularly about nation building and a "humble" foreign policy
