They found that George W. Bush and John McCain agree on an overwhelming majority of the issues - 80 percent. You don’t get much closer than that, so yes, it’s very fair to say that a vote for McCain is a vote for 4 more years of Bush.

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George W. Bush has admitted that “I Approved” a meeting of senior Bush administration officials dedicated to approving the implementation of torture by the U.S. Government. This is against the law governing conspiracy to commit torture.
CNN, CBS, NBC, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times have completely ignored […]

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“Some people like to give and don’t particularly like their names to be disclosed… so we’ll take that into consideration.” Those are the actual words that came out of President Bush’s mouth. He plans on taking money from people and from corporations, while President, and not disclosing where the money is coming from.

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The Bush White House is illegally delaying the polar bear decision by the EPA until after big oil corporations are able to buy leases in the Chukchi Sea, prime polar bear habitat, at rock bottom prices in an auction scheduled for today.

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George W. Bush has submitted his proposed budget to the U.S. Congress for 2009 - and that proposed budget includes a half a billion dollar cut of funds for renewable energy resources and energy efficiency programs. Without better energy efficiency and an increase in energy from renewable resources, we cannot hope to fight global warming.

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The White House justifies its destruction of the records by saying that doing so is “consistent with industry best practices”. What President George W. Bush clearly does not understand is that the federal government of the United States of America is not an industry. Our government is supposed to be of the people, by the people, and for the people. It therefore is expected to follow standards that are higher than those adopted by big business.

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You know, Bill Clinton was hardly a die-hard progressive president, but at least he understood why progressives place an emphasis on the separation of the passage of laws in the congress, the enactment of laws by the executive, and the enforcement of laws by the judiciary. Three separate and equal branches each interact with […]

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Senator Edward Kennedy skewered George W. Bush’s rhetoric on surveillance without a warrant, corporations, and the value of human life in a speech to the Senate on December 17, 2007:
Think about what we’ve been hearing from the White House in this debate. The President has said that American lives will be sacrificed if Congress […]

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Illinois Senator Barack Obama spoke yesterday on the Fall 2007 National Intelligence Estimate regarding Iran, which concluded that Iran had abandoned its nuclear weapons program far back in 2003:
It is absolutely clear that this administration and President Bush continues to not let facts get in the way of his ideology. And that’s been the problem […]

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Back in 2005, when challenged on the constitutionality of the USA Patriot Act, George W. Bush retorted, “Stop throwing the Constitution in my face. It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!” But without that God-damned piece of paper, the presidency doesn’t even exist. Our next president needs to remember that.
(Source: Capitol Hill […]

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