Tag Archives: Dubya

Mike Rogers on Ken Mehlman: “All I ask are three simple things. First he should spend time with the parents of a child who killed himself after 2004, after that horrible election. I think that he needs to take the fabulous $3M condo he bought in Manhattan and donate that back to the cause that he worked so hard against. …

“One of the things I sincerely hope Ken Mehlman has done or will do is to explain to George W. Bush how denying LGBT people equality causes real harm and how the GOP’s anti-equality platform and campaigns lead to teen suicides and hate crimes. I hope he explains how bigotry impacted him and that he has asked George W Bush …

“Look, I have a lot of friends who ask questions and who are angry about it. I understand that folks are angry, I don’t know that you can change the past. As I’ve said, one thing I regret a lot is the fact that I wasn’t in the position I am today where I was comfortable with this part of …

Don’t forget for one fucking minute that it was Ken Mehlman who presided over the Republican Party while the GOP ensured that anti-gay items would be on MANY state ballots in order to drive homophobes to the polls. From Marc Ambinder’s Atlantic column: Mehlman said at the time that he could not, as an individual Republican, go against the party …

Maybe the $4M loft he bought in gay gay gay Chelsea this summer did (or more likely, brought) the trick, as Mike Rogers reports today that repulsive 2004 Dubya campaign manager and former RNC chairman Ken Mehlman is about to come out. [UPDATE: It’s official. See update at the bottom of this post.] In 2004 Steve Schmidt (then the Republican …

Retired New Jersey Superior Court judge and current Fox News legal analyst Andrew Napolitano says that Dubya and Dick Cheney should be indicted for violations of habeas corpus.

And there’s no end in sight. Rep. Mike Honda (D-CA) laments: That June 7, 2010, marks the 104th month of US military engagement in Afghanistan and, consequently, America’s longest war in history (Vietnam lasted 103 months), would be less significant if we were not fumbling on all fronts in Afghanistan, from security to development to governance. The disconcerting indication of …

You may recall that in her memoir released early this month, Laura Bush wrote that she had asked Dubya not to make gay marriage an issue in his campaign, considering how many gay friends they had. Last night on Larry King, Laura expanded on that, saying she supported gay marriage and that it would eventually be legalized as the issue …

According to Sean Hannity, the president did nothing about the Gulf oil spill for eight days, allowing the situation to worsen. Hannity says the media is giving Obama a pass on this supposed inaction, unlike the evisceration of Duyba for continuing to read to children during the 9/11 attack. Because both situations are the same.

“In 2004 the social question that animated the campaign was gay marriage. Before the election season had unfolded, I had talked to George about not making gay marriage a significant issue. We have, I reminded him, a number of close friends who are gay or whose children are gay. But at that moment I could never have imagined what path …

The president of Russia tells George Stephanopoulos that Barack Obama actually “thinks when he speaks,” unlike a certain other person that he doesn’t care to name for fear of offending.

The percentage of people saying homosexuality is “never justifiable” is diving in all the countries surveyed. Including here, until starting around 2000, thanks to Karl Rove and the Bush II years. Still, I suppose we should at least by heartened by the overall change since the survey began. (Via – Andrew Sullivan)

The wingnuts on Breitbart think it’s hilarious.

This morning on ABC News This Week, Dick Cheney said that the time to repeal DADT has come. I think the society has moved on. I think it’s partly a generational question. I say I’m reluctant to second-guess the military in this regard because they’re the ones who have got to make the judgment about how these policies affect the …

NPR reports that a billboard depicting Dubya and the words “Miss Me Yet?” has gone up along an Montana Minnesota highway. Nobody knows who’s behind the sign yet, or whether it mocks the former president or the current one. I’m betting on current. And teabaggers.

From Holland’s Comedy Central.

Liz Cheney is keeping America safe. With lies! Via Think Progress: Of course, while Obama wasn’t speaking publicly about the terrorist incident, he was directing an immediate federal response. Moreover, as Huffington Post’s Sam Stein documented, President Bush didn’t utter a single word about shoe bomber Richard Reid’s terrorist attack for six days, whereupon he simply said that he was …

Rudy Giuliani’s claim that no domestic terrorism took place during the Dubya administration may have marked the end of his political career. So says Maddow. So say we all.