Eight years of Bush administration press pool photography, as selected by the head photo editors of AP, AFP, and Reuters.

Actually gave me a chuckle. (via mha)

How Antonio Taguba, who investigated the Abu Ghraib scandal, became one of its casualties.

"As your mind begins to wander, you find little ways to keep the day interesting, usually by adding things to the source that normally wouldn't be there." Mikey finds a Bush jab in an Apple sample code document.

Lawyers for two men charged with illegally ejecting two people from a speech by President Bush in 2005 are arguing that the president’s staff can lawfully remove anyone who expresses points of view different from his.

"The public has a right to believe that prosecution decisions are made on legal, not political, grounds."

"Evidently, someone at the White House needs a little help with The Google."

"And there is something worse still than this vast gaping hole in this city, and in the fabric of our nation. There is its symbolism of the promise unfulfilled, the urgent oath, reduced to lazy execution."

Bush sings Imagine and a little Lou Reed. Stay through the ending.

Heartbreaking.

"A DHS risk scorecard for the city asserted that the home of the Empire State Building and the Brooklyn Bridge has "zero" national monuments or icons." Fuck you, Chertoff.

"Colbert, who spoke in the guise of his talk show character, who ostensibly supports the president strongly, urged the Bush to ignore his low approval ratings, saying they were based on reality, 'and reality has a well-known liberal bias.'"

May actually eclipse Gore's "invented the internet" comment. Another money quote from the same speech: "There's nothing we can't do if we don't put our mind to it."

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"Lightweight, and crank it on, and you shuffle the Shuffle."

"The Clinton administration program, code-named Echelon, complied with FISA."

"I’ve talked to three people present for the meeting that day and they all confirm that the President of the United States called the Constitution 'a goddamned piece of paper.'"

WTF?

Required reading.

"It appears that the money has been moved in the president’s budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that’s the price we pay." [via amberglow]

via Liliana; much needed humor on a down day.

Understatement of the century, coming from him.

"I don't see how you can be president at least from my perspective, how you can be president, without a relationship with the Lord."