Comments on: FDL Book Salon: “How Bush Rules,” Week II

By: PoliticsTV.com Blog Channel » Blog Archive » SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL: How Bush Rules - Chronicles of a Radical Regime

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 17:56:43 +0000

[…] Sidney Blumenthal was the guest at today’s Fire Dog Lake Book Salon to discuss his new book. How Bush Rules: Chronicles of a Radical Regime […]

By: Terrible

Terrible — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 12:53:31 +0000

Where is the American judicuary that took an oath to up-hold the laws that the criminal republicans are breaking on a daily basis?

By: dlake

dlake — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 04:13:28 +0000

I have been reading this book and I highly recommend it to anyone interested about this administration. It’s well written and engrossing. I am drawn to it when not reading it. I have to say, though, that I cannot come to feel anger towards Woodward. Maybe the watergate thing and all it did made me see him as this wonderful person or something. It just carrys over even if you disagree with him. I do sometimes feel he needs the guiding hand of Bernstien still to keep him focused and critical. But, I just cannot whip up anger towards him.

By: FDL Book Salon: “How Bush Rules” TheTruth: Conspiracies Exposed, Evidence, Documents about 9-11, Bush, The Iraq War and More!

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 02:39:12 +0000

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By: susan

susan — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 01:56:36 +0000

Sorry I didnt get to ask this question of Mr. Blumenthal but I’ll throw it out here and check back later.

What do you make of Bush’s replacement of John Carlin, the national archivist, with Allen Weinstein? Will Weinstein be able to rewrite the book on the Bush administration? And is there any oversight of the national archivist?

By: -ck-

-ck- — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 01:11:12 +0000

New Thread — Toxic

By: scarecrow

scarecrow — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 01:08:37 +0000

George Soros, previously on Book Salon, now on Book tv — C-SPAN2, being interviewed for Age of Fallibility

“It is not our will that is being tested; it is our understanding of reality.”

By: Hugh

Hugh — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 01:00:57 +0000

scarecrow @ 237

WASHINGTON A last-minute change to a bill currently before Congress on the rights of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay could have sweeping implications inside the United States: It would strip green-card holders and other legal residents of the right to challenge their detention in court if they are accused of being “enemy combatants.”

IIRC while military commissions are restricted to “alien” unlawful enemy combatants, there is no such restriction on being declared an “unlawful enemy combatant”. Even an American citizen could be so declared and then be held indefinitely because anyone held under this status has no habeas corpus right.

Welcome to the new improved United States.

By: scarecrow

scarecrow — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 01:00:22 +0000

Wow. From Americanblog:

GOP Rep. “Shimkus is toast”

They held a lottery for the pages to bid on who got to go to dinner with Foley.

“You can’t make this up.” Jane Hamsher

By: Rayne

Rayne — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 00:57:25 +0000

SP CPA — yes, I’d seen that Newsweek bit; I’d ranted about all of the emails throughout the course of a couple of threads on Friday, including that damning bit in March 2002 where Abramoff mentions the upcoming war in Iraq. Ugh…don’t get me started.

I’m in the process of converting all those emails from PDF’s to text files, for the viewing and searching “pleasure” of others. There’s so much criminality in them that the House Reform Committee couldn’t touch but that we can nail them on in the near future; text will help us greatly.

cbl — oh, yes, The Long March of Dick Cheney was equally wonderful and disgust-inducing. I’ve thought of that article a few times recently; it’s crossed my mind that the October Surprise could be a new “Halloween Massacre”, wherein Cheney displaces Rummy in a reverse move of the first Halloween Massacre, in order to prop up Dubya’s JAR’s. Dubya’s JAR’s are the bellweather indicator we need to watch; if his JAR moves above 42%, winning any one of the two houses is nominal. It’s funny, however, that although even the right-wingers vehemently dislike Cheney, his JAR never affects Bush or the rest of the Repug party, yes?