Bush’s Independence Day speech interrupted by anti-war hecklers
Like I said earlier this week, the idiocy never stops, not even for a holiday:
Like I said earlier this week, the idiocy never stops, not even for a holiday:
—– North Korea’s destroyed it’s main cooling tower as part of it’s effort to show the world it’s committment to being open about it’s nuclear ambitions/stockpiles. Even the NYT in a roundabout way is acknowledging the breakthrough and giving the Bush admin credit.
With just a little over six months left in his last term, much has been written about how President Bush will be viewed historically long after he says his final goodbye to the American people as their President. One recent “unscientific poll” conducted by HNN suggested that 98% of “historians” viewed his presidency as a failure, while 61% said his presidency was the “worst in history.” One Columbia U. professor wrote in 2006 that Bush’s presidency could already be described as the “worst in history” – even though he acknowledged that it was hard to gauge how his presidency would be viewed in 2050. There have been plenty more pieces like that written, with so-called “experts” weighing in before his second term is even over as to how he will/should be viewed both now, and in the future.
According to a recent Gallup poll, which states that’s the “lowest ever for any U.S. institution.”
I came home this evening after a busy afternoon at the 8-5, started catching up on the news shortly thereafter, and haven’t been able to stop laughing since. Why? Well, it all centers around the story about the agreement reached today between Democrats and Republicans in the House on the FISA bill, which has been stalled for quite some time now thanks to numerous disagreements, among them immunity to telecoms:
GM & Chrysler will get, with stipulations, another opportunity to get it right, while the American taxpayer gets saddled with the bill.