Musings of the Great Eric

NYT:

Here in what may be the reddest city in the reddest of states, where Democrats sometimes gather like lost souls at the one Starbucks, most people are standing by President Bush.
When he gives a speech that angers voters or brings ridicule from other parts of the country, people here pick up different messages. They might […]

See Bush. See Bush Drink. Drink Bush, Drink.
Year Bush says he quit drinking: 1986Year video was shot: 1992
You do the math. As Bush says… only in America.
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Bush Re-Enters Gay Marriage Fight
President Bush plans to wade back into the emotional debate over same-sex marriage for the first time in his second term beginning today with a pair of speeches pressing the Senate to approve a constitutional amendment next week defining marriage as the union of a man and woman.
Bush, whose opposition to […]

Like father, like son:

In an effort to raise revenues, tax writers in Congress added a last-minute provision that retroactively increased taxes for Americans living abroad. But the sudden imposition of new taxes has surprised overseas taxpayers, and it has employers concerned about the added cost.
The increase for Americans abroad was added at the last minute […]

MSNBC:
President George W. Bush has bestowed on his intelligence czar, John Negroponte, broad authority, in the name of national security, to excuse publicly traded companies from their usual accounting and securities-disclosure obligations. Notice of the development came in a brief entry in the Federal Register, dated May 5, 2006, that was opaque to the untrained […]

It’s not an issue I have strong feelings on, but I did catch a portion of the speech. The actual content doesn’t interest me too much, but this one line jumped out at me:
We’re a nation of laws, and we must enforce our laws.
He really needs to spend some time contemplating the implications of that […]

Reuters:

Interviewed on Fox News Sunday, Laura Bush said she did not think people were losing confidence inPresident George W. Bush, despite a series of polls showing support for him at its lowest point in his five-year presidency and among the lowest for any president in the past 50 years.
“I don’t really believe those polls. I […]

Bush Backs Brother Jeb for White House
President Bush suggested Wednesday that he’d like to see his family’s White House legacy continue, perhaps with his younger brother Jeb as the chief executive.
Remind me again… what’s it called when one guy is head of state, then his son is, then his other son? In a country where […]