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To Those Who Voted for Bush: Do You Get It Now?
Wednesday, 7 September 2005, 3:16 pm | Bernard Weiner
Here's something I don't understand. The Golden Goose was about to lay another 9/11-type Golden Egg for Bush&Co. to pick up. And they didn't. More >>
Weiner: A Cancerous Tumor in the Body Politic
Monday, 22 August 2005, 2:34 pm | Bernard Weiner
When White House Counsel John Dean in 1973 told Richard Nixon that there was a "cancer growing on the presidency," it wasn't totally clear if he was referring to the Watergate coverup inside the White House, or to the felonies committed by Nixon's closest aides, ... More >>
US Leaving Iraq? - It's Still the Politics, Stupid
Thursday, 4 August 2005, 2:56 pm | Bernard Weiner
As we've learned over the past four-plus years, no matter what the spin justifications employed by Bush&Co. spokesmen -- terrorism, national-security, freedom's on the march -- it's usually the politics, stupid. More >>
Inside Rove's Diary: How Do I Get Out of This One?
Thursday, 28 July 2005, 1:20 pm | Bernard Weiner
Dear Diary: Oh shit! It's been one badddddddd week. But I think Scooter and I and the others probably can finesse our way out of indictments for the Plame leak. However, Fitzgerald -- one of our guys! -- must have forgotten who butters his U.S. Attorney's ... More >>
Rove Scandal Leading to Deeper White House Horrors
Wednesday, 20 July 2005, 3:26 pm | Bernard Weiner
At long last, Plamegate -- the scandal surrounding the outing of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson by two "senior administration officials" -- has exploded out of the D.C. beltway to become a major national news story. More >>
Bernard Weiner: A Powerful Man Glimpses His Demons
Wednesday, 13 July 2005, 12:34 am | Bernard Weiner
"We're under confidentiality here, right? You can't ever tell anyone what I say to you, doctor/patient relationship, yes?" "That's correct. Under normal circumstances, I cannot be forced to reveal anything you say to me. Only if you're about to do imminent ... More >>
Bernard Weiner: Rove, Supremes & A Silent Scream
Wednesday, 6 July 2005, 12:31 am | Bernard Weiner
I love old-fashioned, small-town 4th of July parades. When we lived in Northern California's San Geronimo Valley in Marin County, we participated, along with everybody else in the small rural community of Woodacre, in as Norman Rockwell-like a parade as you ... More >>
15 Things About Bush&Co.: An Impeachment List
Wednesday, 29 June 2005, 3:11 pm | Bernard Weiner
Though my degrees are in government and international relations, I hadn't been part of the political arena in an activist way since "The Sixties" -- roughly the Civil Rights Movement late-'50s through the anti-Vietnam War mid-'70s. Instead, after years ... More >>
Shallow Throat: Cornered Animals Are Dangerous
Wednesday, 22 June 2005, 10:19 am | Bernard Weiner
After Mark Felt unmasked himself as "Deep Throat," I immediately tried to contact our contemporary GOP mole, "Shallow Throat," inside the Bush Administration, the one who had fed us numerous tips many times before.* But I received no response from ... More >>
Building A New "Movement": The Downing Street Memo
Wednesday, 15 June 2005, 3:54 pm | Bernard Weiner
Not just because many of my relatives got wiped out in the Holocaust, or because my wife is Bavarian, but, like so many others around the world, I am ineluctably drawn to the Hitler period in Germany. How could this have happened -- 6 million ... More >>
Karl Rove's Diary: Escaping the Lame-Duck Trap
Wednesday, 8 June 2005, 1:37 pm | Bernard Weiner
Dear Diary: Things certainly aren't going the way the Boy Genius planned them. I thought the second term would be pretty much like the first, only more-so: setting the agenda, getting pretty much our own way in Congress, the world acquiescing to ... More >>
GOP Swept from Power in 2006 - Impeachment Looms
Thursday, 2 June 2005, 11:53 am | Bernard Weiner
(Associated Press, Nov. 8, 2006) The Democrats didn't waste any time after their landslide victory in Tuesday's midterm election that put them in charge, with huge margins in both the House and Senate. More >>
Bernard Weiner: The Secret "Percentages Agreement"
Monday, 23 May 2005, 10:38 am | Bernard Weiner
Turns out that my Ph.D. dissertation -- that tome yellowing in a closet upstairs -- contains information that corrects Bush's ignorant distortions about World War II history. Bush, in Europe recently for ceremonies marking the end of that war, ... More >>
Current Events For Dummies, May 2005 Edition
Wednesday, 18 May 2005, 12:12 am | Bernard Weiner
Politics is so confusing these days, with all sorts of charges, scandals, distortions, nominees, wars, distractions. To help me out of this current-events muddle, I once again turn to the editors of the popular franchised book series, for short easy-to-understand ... More >>
Weiner: Open Letter to U.S. Troops Serving in Iraq
Wednesday, 4 May 2005, 11:22 am | Bernard Weiner
This letter comes to you from someone -- like most of the elected officials in Washington giving you military orders -- who has never served in the armed forces. So you may be tempted to dismiss what I say as not relevant to your very real and scary daily ... More >>
The 2006 Election Is Happening Right Now
Wednesday, 27 April 2005, 2:34 pm | Bernard Weiner
It's crunch time, folks. The Bush Administration is quite aware that lame-duck, second-term presidents have a very brief window of opportunity during which they can push through their agendas with a likelihood of success. So Karl Rove, seeing the window starting ... More >>
From Sahara To Germany: What Does "Progress" Mean?
Thursday, 21 April 2005, 12:50 am | Bernard Weiner
Going from wealthy, solidly infrastructered Germany to poor, developing Morocco stimulates culture shock in major proportions. I was in Deutschland to address a meeting of Democrats Abroad-Germany, and to join the celebration for my mother-in-law's 90th ... More >>
Rumsfeld Grilled at Truth & Reconciliation Hearing
Wednesday, 30 March 2005, 4:21 pm | Bernard Weiner
It was several years after the Bush Administration had left office, in what has been called the period of "Restoration of Constitutional rule." Criminal indictments were about to be unsealed, naming the architects of the former regime's foreign wars/torture ... More >>
Bernard Weiner: Rove's Tricky Decoy Dump
Wednesday, 23 March 2005, 1:16 pm | Bernard Weiner
You've seen the movies and animations: Enemy weapons are fired at an American plane or submarine; to avoid being blown up, "chaff" is thrown out to confuse the incoming missiles/torpedoes into going after the decoys rather than the targeted jet or ship. More >>
Bush to UN, Screw You! - Bolton's Nomination
Thursday, 17 March 2005, 11:49 am | Bernard Weiner
Traditionally, a lame-duck president has a two-year window of opportunity to successfully push his foreign and domestic agenda. Karl Rove knows this well. More >>
