McSweeney's presents: daily reason to dispatch Bush.

[Arundel Pajo]

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/bush/

[Xzion]

"DAY 35:

In 2003, President Bush helped Haley Barbour campaign for governor of Mississippi, despite his links to a white supremacist organization, the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC). The CCC supports deporting African Americans to Africa, denies the Holocaust took place, opposes immigration of Asians, Latinos and other minorities to the U.S., and opposes the "mixing of races."

Prior to the election, the CCC homepage posted a photograph of Barbour and the organization's leaders at a CCC-sponsored event. Barbour did not object to his photograph being used on the site.

During Barbour's gubernatorial campaign, Bush said Barbour was "a man of good values."

Barbour won the election in 2003.

Today's CCC homepage shows a photograph of a recently married gay couple holding three children. The caption reads: "OREGON joins a growing list of liberal states which now have city governments issuing marriage licenses to perverted sodomites. To date, no governor in any of these states has ordered any law enforcement agency to halt the illegal licensing. These two queers show off their nonwhite 'offspring.'"

(Source: http://www.cofcc.org/. Stephen Dinan, "Bush Praises Barbour's 'values,'" The Washington Times, November 2, 2003. Derrick Z. Jackson, "Barbour's Racist Links Tar Bush Too," The Boston Globe, November 22, 2003. ) "

another good one

"DAY 34:

In January 2004, while Congress was out of session, President Bush appointed Judge Charles W. Pickering to the U.S. Court of Appeals.

For two years Democratic senators have blocked Pickering's appointment, because he has supported segregation, and voted to outlaw abortions.

Other notable events in the appointee's career:

In 1959 Pickering wrote an article suggesting that the State of Mississippi strengthen the penalties associated with its law against interracial marriages.

In 1976 Pickering voted to overrule Roe v. Wade, making abortion illegal.

Pickering has voted against state funding for family planning programs, and has opposed the Equal Rights Amendment.

In the 1970's,when Pickering was a Mississippi state senator, he voted to repeal a provision of the Voting Rights Act that helps to ensure equal voting rights for minorities in states that have a history of discrimination.

Five weeks after Pickering's appointment, Bush — while Congress was again out of session — Bush installed Judge William H. Pryor to the U.S. Court of Appeals.

Pryor opposes abortion, and has described Roe v. Wade as "the worst abomination in the history of constitutional law."

Despite their unconfirmed status, both judges can legally remain in office for one year. "

I wonder what Brotha has to say to that

[Lalanae]

OH YEAH??

Well, prove to me that Kerry won't do those exact same things!

c'mon! prove it! I dare ya!

[miir]

I liked this one:

President Bush's 2004 official election campaign sells clothing made in Myanmar. This is in direct violation of Bush's own trade embargo against the country, one of the world leaders in sex trafficking, human rights abuses, and narcotics production

[Arundel Pajo]

DAY 26:

In February, 2004, the President explained that the U.S. is facing a deficit of $500 billion, the largest in American history, because "we went through a recession, we were attacked, and we're fighting a war." But the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office found that the single biggest cause of the deficit was the President's tax cuts for the wealthy. (The top 1 percent of earners get an average $52,000 tax break this year, and the majority of taxpayers only get $850.) Specifically, 36 percent of the deficit resulted from tax cuts, and only 31 percent resulted from defense/war-related spending increases. The remaining 33 percent of the deficit was caused by economic recession.

(Source: President Remarks, 02/02/2004, "Will the President's 2005 Budget Really Cut the Deficit in Half?" Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 01/16/2004, "CBO Figures Indicate Lower Revenues, Not Higher Spending, Account for the Large Deficit," Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 01/26/2004.)

Nice.

[Truant]

DAY 26:

In February, 2004, the President explained that the U.S. is facing a deficit of $500 billion, the largest in American history, because "we went through a recession, we were attacked, and we're fighting a war." But the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office found that the single biggest cause of the deficit was the President's tax cuts for the wealthy. (The top 1 percent of earners get an average $52,000 tax break this year, and the majority of taxpayers only get $850.) Specifically, 36 percent of the deficit resulted from tax cuts, and only 31 percent resulted from defense/war-related spending increases. The remaining 33 percent of the deficit was caused by economic recession.

(Source: President Remarks, 02/02/2004, "Will the President's 2005 Budget Really Cut the Deficit in Half?" Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 01/16/2004, "CBO Figures Indicate Lower Revenues, Not Higher Spending, Account for the Large Deficit," Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 01/26/2004.)

Nice.

Oh, but the economy was fine, it was fine!