2004 Presidential Transition
TalkLeft: "Judd Legum and Christy Harvey of the Center for American Progress explain why filibusters are necessary and why Bush's most lasting and worst legacy may be his judicial appointments."
Daily Kos: "So it's pretty obvious -- we don't love terrorists. We don't want them to win. For them to win would be to realize our greatest fears. The muslim terrorist is truly the anti-liberal. Like matter and anti-matter."
Juan Cole: "Meanwhile, Ukraine really did begin its phased withdrawal from Iraq. Likewise, Poland is beginning its disengagement. Its departure would leave only the UK and Italy with any significant number of combat troops among the coalition. Spain, Norway, Thailand, Holland, and several Latin American countries have pulled out as well. The US is becoming increasingly isolated in facing the Iraq quagmire, as former allies (pulled in by false promises that they would only be doing light peace keeping) peel off."
Josh Marshall: "NYT: 'Under the Bush administration, the federal government has aggressively used a well-established tool of public relations: the prepackaged, ready-to-serve news report that major corporations have long distributed to TV stations to pitch everything from headache remedies to auto insurance. In all, at least 20 federal agencies, including the Defense Department and the Census Bureau, have made and distributed hundreds of television news segments in the past four years, records and interviews show. Many were subsequently broadcast on local stations across the country without any acknowledgement of the government's role in their production.'"
Blogs for Bush: "Ladies and gentlemen, it is working: tax cuts have pulled us out of recession into boom times; faith-based initiatives are proving better at delivering aid to the poor than government run, top-down programs; democracy is taking root after being midwifed by American arms and determination, etc, etc, etc. The only real mistake which can be ascribed to the President has been Campaign Finance Reform, and in that he at least has the excuse that he probably never imagined that the Supreme Court would allow that dog of a law to pass Constitutional muster."
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