No pardon. Here’s some background on the initial pardon… Toussie pleaded guilty to charges in two separate cases. In one, he admitted in 2001 that he had made false statements to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, pleading guilty to a count of falsifying loan documents that illegally qualified about 100 home buyers [...]

He had the type of access to Bush that journalists would kill for and it resulted in a bunch of books about his Presidency that weren’t necessarily flattering. Still, that doesn’t mean Bush’s presidency will be a failure… Personally, I don’t think Iraqi democratization will ultimately turn out the way Bush and company said it [...]

Former advisor Mary Matalin explains how the Bush administration worked…or didn’t. It sounds like a sensible strategy, but the problem with Bush is he allowed himself to be surrounded himself with folks who had very specific agendas and he got faulty information as a result. Nowhere is this more apparent than the decision to go [...]

Hi, this is Danielle Ivory from the American News Project. My colleague, Lagan Sebert, and I just published a new video on the bailout and a lack of serious oversight. Today, Henry Paulson urged Congress to release the second half of the $700 billion of the bailout money. But no one seems know what banks [...]

He continues to deliver shock and awe. I honestly don’t think he meant to say that because the administration said time and time again that al Qaeda was in Iraq and that they had operational ties to Saddam and since they were the group responsible for 9/11, well, we could go there. Because remember…what if [...]

This is Lagan from ANP, We sat down with James Risen, the New York Times national security corespondent who broke the domestic wiretapping stories, to talk about the dilemmas Obama faces with the unparalleled executive power he will inherit. Dick Cheney recently said that Obama would appreciate all of the power they are handing over, [...]

I’m sure you’ve seen this by now, but if not…it’s a must watch. If only Bush’s reaction time to our economic crisis was this quick. Here’s more about the reporter and what he said… “This is a gift from the Iraqis. This is the farewell kiss, you dog,” the journalist shouted (in Arabic), Steven Lee [...]

After the Senate put a halt to the automaker bailout yesterday, the White House has announced today it may bailout the automakers itself with the money approved for the financial bailout. Nice to see that all the debate in Congress was just a pageant and the Bush Administration will, once again, do whatever it wants, [...]

Following up on the previous post, Chris Matthews talks to a couple politicos and ponders whether or not history will be kind. Even the Republican strategist doesn’t really want to defend Bush. And that should tell you all you need to know.

I couldn’t make this stuff up if I tried. But after 8 years of being told half truths, who will believe any of this…especially now that word has leaked that these are just talking points? From LA Times: A two-page memo that has been sent to Cabinet members and other high-ranking officials offers a guide [...]

I’m surprised that these numbers are so high, but I guess that goes to show you what happens when you pick a cabinet that’s in line with the centrist nature of the country. Also note how Obama and Bush’s numbers are almost the exact opposite of one another. The details… Nearly eight in 10 Americans [...]

Remember folks, these are loans and we could actually make money on the deal…the same way we did last time when we helped a car company out and mandated they increase their CAFE standards. From NY Times: WASHINGTON — Faced with staggering new unemployment figures, Democratic Congressional leaders said on Friday that they were ready [...]

He says that they can’t be the “old white guy party,” he acknowledges that people are sick of partisanship and he even has some praise for Obama’s first moves as President elect. From NewsMax… Regardless of whether or not you agree with him, we definitely got the lesser Bush son as president. This guy would [...]

The nation has been clamoring for a solution on this and Bush finally decided to address it in this hour of need when healthcare workers are being inhumanely forced to give their patients information about birth control and artificial insemination. The horror! But it doesn’t just stop there…as the LA Times reveals: It also seeks [...]

I think this will be as close as he gets to actually saying, “Okay, you know what…I screwed it up.” First, he admits he wasn’t prepared for war… Looking back on his eight years in the White House, President George W. Bush pinpointed incorrect intelligence that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction [...]

What continues to bother me about the financial crisis is that so many people saw the warning signs and yet so many others refused to pay attention to the risks. A new AP report reveals the extent to which the Bush administration ignored the danger. Here’s a list of what the administration could have done [...]

First Lady Laura Bush makes an appearances and talks about the need for more rights for women in Afghanistan. Thoughts?

Detroit Free Press columnist Rochelle Riley throws around the “I” word again in an attempt to make Keith Olbermann look like Chuck Todd. Good times… Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s ineffectiveness became clear the day she became Speaker of the House and immediately announced that there would be no impeachment proceedings against President George W. Bush or [...]

Writing for The Atlantic, Robert D. Kaplan thinks Barack Obama has made a good decision by choosing political rival Hillary Clinton to be Secretary of State. But Kaplan foresees success for Obama not just because of the team he’s assembled but because international conditions are favorable for success: [T]he real reason that Obama and Clinton [...]

As a result of mushy thinking, we are now given to understand the “free market” problem that was created by too much government spending, too much government debt, too much government sponsored credit via easy monetary policy, and a market wildly distorted by government intervention to meet social goals (along with a large helping of corporate criminal fraud that slipped through the existing government regulatory framework) can only be solved by increasing government spending, increasing government debt, have an easy monetary policy and create more market distortions with more government intervention to meet similar social goals.