Month: January 2007

LBJ orders some slacks: Operator: Go ahead sir LBJ: Mr. Haggar? JH: Yes this is Joe Haggar LBJ: Joe, is your father the one that makes clothes? JH: Yes sir – we’re all together LBJ: Uh huh. You all made me some real...

. Goaded by the Right? by Dan Froomkin Here’s Bush in September 2006, in a closed-door session with conservative journalists, as reported by Rich Lowry in the National Review. Lowry, who was even then calling for more U.S....

Leaders do not lose wars and remain in office to negotiate the terms of defeat or organize the withdrawal. Napoleon was exiled to Elba, and thereafter to St. Helena. Jefferson Davis was imprisoned and barred from holding further...

Also at Kos. NBC’s Jim Miklashevski reported Wednesday morning that Mr. Bush has “all but decided” to send about 20,000 more troops to Iraq.  One has to wonder what he’s “all but” still...

Via Firedoglake, discussion of Bush’s plan to “surge and accelerate” in Iraq. How many more Americans should be asked to die for a mistake and to prop up a President’s ego?  How many more innocents...