Do you really believe the Bush story that he didn’t watch the Saddam hanging vid?

That story got cut off. What they meant to say is that he didn’t watch it without a bottle of lotion and a box of Kleenex handy.

When I first saw the story about his “please don’t kill me!” mockery I was shocked that such an obviously unhinged sociopath was the second most powerful man in the free world (after Cheney). I still am.

Twain @ 193:
“Somewhere in Brazil they are cloning little Bushes.”

I wish they were in Brazil. They are here, they have always been here, the Theocrats, the kleptocrats, the Fascists and others, who want to subvert the Constitution for their own ends. The only thing they can agree on, is the means to those ends.

As if the Brazilians deserve them. Actually, wasn’t the chief cloner in that film domiciled in Paraguay? He was a real sycophant, or maybe sick-o-phant*, too, as I recall.

*in a way utterly unrelated to anyone in Michael Moore’s film.

In June, before the Libby commutation, The Austin American-Statesman reviewed Mr. Bush’s record on clemency as president and governor in a front-page article. The headline said, “Bush history gives Libby little hope for a pardon.”

Unless one read the article, they would’ve missed this scathingly juicy bit:

“For every death penalty case,” he wrote, “they brief me thoroughly, review the arguments made by the prosecution and the defense, raise any doubts or problems or questions.”

Mr. Bush made many of his decisions in Texas based on case summaries prepared by his legal counsel, Alberto R. Gonzales, now the attorney general of the United States. The 57 summaries were examined in a 2003 article by Alan Berlow in The Atlantic Monthly. Mr. Berlow found that they were relatively brief, often dwelt on the details of the crime and sometimes omitted information that lawyers for the inmates said was crucial. Mr. Bush apparently rarely reviewed the inmates’ actual clemency petitions.

This was a brilliant bit of reporting, IMHO.

GordonM @195 The lizard brain would explain that kind of animal taunting a predator who can’t hurt you.

Absolutely.

Eli @ 240

I’ve been screaming for the past two years that they should have been making a big deal out of this, and force the Republicans to publicly defend unaccountable voting, but they’ve never done squat. They’ve been content to move very quietly and slowly behind the scenes.

Actually, they had John Fund (and ACVR) strike a pre-emptive blow against election fraud by casting it all as voter fraud. Most people don’t know the difference.

So that they have a fair chance of winning in ‘08. Am I stupid?

No, that’s someone else. I got it in writing!

Oklahoma kiddo @ 169

The real battle is to get rid of the Bush political dynasty. Even now this family is plotting it’s next assault on America. I promise you.

Bush is/was just a useful idiot, that is the problem, he is an idiot and he has really fucked up. If I am part of one of the groups that have been planning and implementing this coup for the passed 40 years, I would be pissed.

He’s the political equivalent of premature ejaculation. And they might not be able to get it up again.