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   Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Gnter Grass still thinks reunification was a bad idea.
 Forty years of writing from Taylor Branch, James Fallows, Katherine Boo, Marjorie Williams, Joshua Micah Marshall, and more.
 With help from Washington, the for-profit college industry is loading up millions of low-income students with debt they'll never pay off.
 The best recent memoir from republican Washington is a hoax. That should tell you something.
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December 26, 2008
NICE CHRISTMAS GIFTS FOR LOYAL BUSHIES.... One might think the Bush gang will finally be gone on or around Jan. 20. Alas, a whole lot of these characters will be hanging around Washington quite a while longer, thanks to rewards from their boss.
In all, two dozen White House officials were appointed to positions on government committees and councils, with terms lasting up to six years. They're bound to leave us alone eventually, right? —Steve Benen 8:45 AM Permalink | Trackbacks | Comments (9)Comments
they're like vampires, just when you think the sunlight was enough, you realize you really needed that stake! Posted by: Personal Failure on December 26, 2008 at 8:54 AM | PERMALINKThe White House announced on Wednesday the appointments of key members of the president's inner circle ... to high-profile boards Fred Fielding to the Water Board, perhaps? Posted by: Danp on December 26, 2008 at 9:03 AM | PERMALINKThis is just disgusting, it really is. This is just another sign of the hubris and ignorance that have defined this administration from the beginning. The first great act of hubris was Bush running for president, the next was Cheney selecting himself to be not only VP but the ideological focal point for the administration. It has only gotten worse since then, and now that there is finally an end in sight there appears to be no end in sight. This is yet another in a long list of betrayals of the public will by the worst administration in American history. Good riddance to the lot of them (whenever they actually go). Posted by: Dr. U on December 26, 2008 at 9:33 AM | PERMALINKAlas, a whole lot of these characters will be hanging around Washington quite a while longer Or maybe not. According to the Bushies, President Obama will have the authority to declare them enemy combatants and ship 'em off to a black site prison. Posted by: Roddy McCorley on December 26, 2008 at 10:53 AM | PERMALINKSo Condi Rice--a well-accomplished classical musician in her own right--gets an appointment to the Board of the JFK Performing Arts Center--and you think this is an outrage? C'mon, save your ammo for something worth fighting over. As myself a Democrat, and a [somewhat lower-level] amateur classical musician as well, I frankly think Condi deserves this appointment after eight years of public service. OK, I'm not happy with her performance as a public servant, but, dammit, she *has* served the country, and I, for one, think there ought to be some limits to partisan rancor. This sort of spleen doesn't make us look good in the eyes of anyone who isn't us. Posted by: David in Nashville on December 26, 2008 at 11:06 AM | PERMALINKA columnist elsewhere had a good idea. If we are indeed stuck with these Ghosts of Malfeasance Past, we can take a cue from (I believe) Thailand. When the Thai government found it couldn't remove a minister from office, it redefined his duties. He is currently teaching government sponsored yoga classes. Isn't this exactly the kind of appoinment that Blago was angling to get for himself and wifey? Posted by: nuQlerOstrich on December 26, 2008 at 5:09 PM | PERMALINKMs. Rice is guilty of lieing to Congress during her testimony, of helping to sell an illegal war to Congress and the American prison, of participating in the planning of "enhanced interrogation" techniques, and so on. She is thus a war criminal and guilty of many other crimes both against the American People, the Constitution and against humanity. She deserves a very long prison sentence, not some cushy appointment. Posted by: Dr. Morpheus on December 26, 2008 at 7:22 PM | PERMALINKPreview is my friend, preview is my friend... Posted by: Dr. Morpheus on December 26, 2008 at 7:24 PM | PERMALINK
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