on the same day he vetoes a ban on waterboarding. brilliant.

i wonder if he has a good singing voice? perhaps there a little dance routine to go with it?

Quoted: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush donned a cowboy hat and sang an early goodbye to Washington on Saturday night with a performance that lampooned White House journalists and Vice President

fucking fantastic.

Quoted: "The bill Congress sent me would take away one of the most valuable tools in the war on terror," Bush said in his weekly radio address taped for broadcast yesterday. "So today I vetoed it."

so, why are these telecoms cooperating again?

Quoted: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration said on Saturday U.S. telecommunications companies have agreed to cooperate for the time being with spy agencies' wiretaps, despite an ongoing battle between

Quoted: The Central Intelligence Agency's admission that it destroyed at least two videotapes of harsh interrogations of terror suspects has caused an uproar in Washington and ...

Damn. Why'd he go and do a thing like that when he has what Dick Cheney says is the only thing that matters--the confidence of the president?

Quoted: President Bush today praised Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, whose tenure has been marred by accusations of perjury before Congress, as “a man of integrity, decency and principle.”

Again: No. Fucking. Way.

Quoted: What about those who say he's leaving to avoid Congressional scrutiny? "I know they'll say that," he says, "But I'm not going to stay or leave based on whether it pleases the mob."

No. Fucking. Way.

Quoted: Karl Rove, President Bush’s political adviser, intends to resign at the end of this month to return to Texas, according to an interview published this morning in The Wall Street Journal.

Here's a nice breakdown of the House's changes to the eavesdropping program.

Quoted: For one thing, as TPMmuckraker reported earlier today, under the bill, the primary role for the FISA Court is in issuing generalized surveillance warrants for "persons reasonably believed to be outside the United States."

With reference to the quote below, why not just say that the new legislation allows for the search of any persons who are not native U.S. citizens currently located within the U.S.?

Score -100 for the supposed referendum on the Bush administration that supposedly took place last November.

Quoted: Representative Silvestre Reyes, Democrat of Texas and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said Friday that the bill the administration wanted would allow wiretapping without warrants as long as it was “concerning a person abroad.” As a result, Mr. Reyes said, the law could be construed as allowing any search inside the United States as long as the government claimed it “concerned” Al Qaeda.