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As Al Franken gleefully points out in the foreword,
Slate editor Jacob Weisberg has found a true gravy train, discovering
enough previously uncollected nonsensical utterances by President
Bush to fill a third volume of his classic, this time titled
Still
More George W. Bushisms. As Bush enters his
second nonsensical term, we can no doubt expect a fourth volume
to appear shortly. |
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The best thing about the George
W. Bushisms DVD is having access to all
Bush's classic blunders, all in one place. Bush's verbal gaffes
are plentiful and unyielding. The live version of the classic
book. For a selection of classic Bush misspeaks, visit this
site's Bush Quotes Page. |
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The
Bush Survival Bible: 250 Ways to Make it Through the Next Four
Years Without Misunderestimating the Dangers Ahead, and Other
Subliminable Stategeries. The title pretty
much says it all. Gene Stone, a former newspaper, magazine and
bookeditor, has collaborated on more than twenty books and has
written articles for Esquire, GQ, and New York magazine. In
this relatively light publication, which evidently was rushed
to print to profit from the November Tragedy, Stone makes light
humor of an otherwise dire situation. At least it makes you
laugh, though it ultimately has a serious message --a Bush second
term IS guaranteed to be disastrous for America. |
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The
Family : The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty
details the rise of one of the most powerful and most corrupt
families in America today. The family that has produced two
presidents as well as an assortment of other politicians, businesspeople,
and a number of lesser-known black sheep is portrayed as a powerful
empire that leverages wealth and influence to grow ever stronger
while stringently covering up numerous instances of drug abuse,
infidelity, poor judgment, and scandal. While charges about
George W. Bush, including that he snorted cocaine at Camp David
while his father was president, garnered the most attention
upon the book's release, Kelley's history goes back several
generations, detailing the rise to power of Senator Prescott
Bush and his son, the first President Bush. |
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BushWorld
is Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Dowd's
first collection of op-ed pieces on George W. Bush. She sees
Bush surrounding himself with dangerous ideologues and starting
a poorly thought-out war with disastrous consequences. Each
column is relatively short, and Dowd never shares much new information,
but instead offers the kind of informed skeptical perspective
that's essential when interpreting the public statements of
policymakers. This is the kind of book you can pick up and read
at random. Guaranteed to piss you off. |
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Proving that exorbitant wealth and allegiance
to the Republican Party do not necessarily go hand in hand,
billionaire George Soros offers a sharp critique of the neoconservative
philosophy that he sees guiding the George W. Bush administration.
In The
Bubble of American Supremacy, Soros warns
that American efforts to be the ultimate global superpower will
not only be unsuccessful but will make America and the world
infinitely more unstable. Mandatory reading for all Bush Republicans
who live in an imaginary world of make-believe. |
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Video Documentary: In Bush
Family Fortunes: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy,
journalist Greg Palast argues persuasively that George W. Bush
was allowed into the Air National Guard ahead of other applicants
due to his political connections; paints a damning portrait
of how over 90,000 Florida voters, predominantly black, were
prevented from voting in the 2000 election; discusses the number
of government contracts handed out to large corporate donors
to Bush's campaign--and that's just the first half-hour. Guaranteed
to piss you off. |
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Video Documentary: Michael Moore's
Fahrenheit
9/11 is a triumph of patriotism. Rarely has the
First Amendment been exercised with such fervor and forthrightness
of purpose. In producing this film, Moore armed himself with
a platoon of reputable fact-checkers, an abundance of indisputable
film and video footage, and his own ironically comedic sense
of righteous indignation, with the singular intention of toppling
the war-ravaged administration of President George W. Bush.
OK, so it didn't work. Bush was still able to steal the election
by brainwashing midwestern sheep and rigging the electronic
voting machines. However, this documentary is even more
important now than it was pre-election. |
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In Running
on Empty, Peter Peterson, secretary of commerce
under Nixon, describes how the Republicans are pursuing reckless
supply-side economics while the Democrats, assuming a repeal
of Bush's tax cuts would enable new government spending, are
unwilling to consider limits on entitlements. Citing study after
study, the author shows that it is a failure of leadership,
not knowledge, that has let deficits loom. The book points out
that when Bush came to office in 2001, the 10-year budget balance
was officially projected to be at a surplus of $5.6 trillion.
But after three big tax cuts, the bursting of the stock-market
bubble, and the devastating effects of 9/11on the economy, the
surplus has evaporated, and the deficit is expected to grow
to $ 5-trillion over the next decade. "The domestic deficit
is only the half of it. Given our $500 billion trade deficit
and our anemic savings rate, we depend on an unprecedented $2
billion of foreign capital every working day. If foreign confidence
were to wane, this could lead to the dreaded hard landing."
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Focusing on what each president after JFK has
done, positive and negative, to impact the economy, America
the Broke takes us on a virtual tour of economic
policies and decisions that have done grave damage to social
programs and now threaten to undermine the world economy. Gerald
J. Swanson directly blames the “neoconservatives",
led by G.W. Bush and his administration, who are determined,
in their own words, to starve government so that social programs
would have to be eliminated, even as military spending skyrockets.
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President Bill Clinton's My
Life is the strikingly candid portrait of
a global leader who decided early in life to devote his intellectual
and political gifts, and his extraordinary capacity for hard
work, to serving the public. It is the fullest, most concretely
detailed, most nuanced account of a presidency ever written,
and a testament to the positive impact on America and on the
world of his work and his ideals. This book provides a profile
of a man who was a real leader for the United States, a leader
with integrity, vision and conviction -- the complete opposite
of the criminal who currently occupies the White House. |
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In The
Politics of Truth, which The New York
Times calls a "riveting and all-engaging book,"
Joseph Wilson shows how Bush betrayed him, his wife and ultimately
the entire United States of America.
Wilson was the top American diplomat in Baghdad in the 1990s,
responsible for the embassy, its staff and the lives of other
Americans in the region - not to mention the freeing of hostages
in Kuwait. A career diplomat, he found himself working for
the current Bush administration, and was sent to Niger to
find evidence that Saddam Hussein had tried to buy Uranium
from the West African country. When Bush insisted his Niger
fantasy was fact, Wilson presented evidence to the contrary.
The truth nearly cost his wife her life, as the Bush administration
leaked her CIA undercover status to the media (the only treasonous
and despicable journalist to take the bait was Robert Novak).
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An analyst with the National Security Archive,
John Prados has spent two decades observing the CIA. In Hoodwinked:
The Documents that Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War,
Prados has compiled and annotated the key source documents
behind the selling of the Iraq war to the American public.
As these CIA reports, Pentagon briefings, and other materials
clearly show, Bush and his spokespeople were playing a crude
game of three-card monte, claiming Iraqi ties to Al Qaeda,
weapons of mass destruction, and imminent threats, which are
here exposed as half-truths, exaggerations, and outright fabrications
of a war-mongering administration.
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In House
of Bush, House of Saud Craig Unger claims
in this incisive study that the seeds for the "Age of
Terrorism" and September 11 were planted nearly 30 years
ago with the union between the Saudi royal family and the
extended political family of George H. W. Bush. This book
explores the political tenor of the U.S. over the last 30
years, the Iran-Iraq War, the war in Afghanistan, the birth
of Al Qaeda, the dubious connection between members of the
Saudi Royal family and the exportation of terror, and the
personal fortunes amassed by the Bush family from companies
such as Harken Energy and the Carlyle Group. An excellent
read
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Plan
of Attack is the definitive account of a turning
point in history as President George W. Bush, his war council,
and allies launch a preemptive attack on Iraq, toppling Saddam
Hussein and taking over the country. From in-depth interviews
and documents, Bob Woodward provides an authoritative narrative
of the Administration's behind-the-scenes maneuvering over two
years and examines the causes and consequences of the most controversial
war since Vietnam. |
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The George W. Bush White House, as described
by former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill in The
Price of Loyalty, is a world out of kilter.
Policy decisions are determined not by careful weighing of an
issue's complexities; rather, they're dictated by a cabal of
ideologues and political advisors operating outside the view
of top cabinet officials. |
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In Against
all Enemies, Richard Clarke, a veteran Washington
insider who had advised presidents Reagan, George H.W. Bush,
Clinton, and George W. Bush, dissects each man's approach to
terrorism but levels the harshest criticism at the latter Bush
and his advisors who, Clarke asserts, failed to take terrorism
and Al-Qaeda seriously. Clarke details how his urgent requests
to move terrorism up the list of priorities were met with apathy
and procrastination and how, after the attacks took place, Bush
and key figures such as Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, and
Dick Cheney turned their attention almost immediately to Iraq,
a nation not involved in the attacks. |
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In American
Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in
the House of Bush, Kevin Phillips traces the
rise of the Bush family from investment banking elites to political
power brokers, using their Ivy League network, vast wealth,
and questionable political maneuvering to obtain the White House
and consequently, shake the foundation of constitutional American
democracy. Citing the Bush family mainstays of finance, energy
(oil), the military industrial complex, and national security
and intelligence (the CIA), Phillips uses copious examples to
show the dangerous alliance between the Bushes' business interests
(huge corporations such as Enron and Haliburton) and the formation
of national policy. |
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The 43 chapters in Lies
and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them are all
over the place. Some of the material is interesting, while some
is just stupid. The book's greatest claim is that it turned
radio talk-show commentator Howard Stern from a Bush supporter
into a Bush basher. |
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In Worse
than Watergate, John Dean claims that the
secrecy with which George Bush and Dick Cheney govern is not
merely a preferred system of management but an obsessive strategy
meant to conceal a deeply troubling agenda of corporate favoritism
and a dramatic growth in unchecked power for the executive branch
that put at risk the lives of American citizens, civil liberties,
and the Constitution. |
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In Big
Lies, New York Observer writer Joe
Conason dissects 10 of the most persistent, and glaringly incorrect
arguments made by conservatives. Each chapter begins with a
quotation ("Liberals control the media and misuse their
influence to promote left-wing politics," "Conservatives
are the only true champions of free enterprise"), which
is then picked apart using statistical evidence and detailed
historical research and rejected. |
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The incredulity begins with the title What
Liberal Media?, journalist Eric Alterman's
refutation of widely flung charges of left-wing bias, and never
lets up. Much of Alterman's argument comes down to this: the
conservatives in the newspapers, television, talk radio, and
the Republican party are lying about liberal bias and repeating
the same lies long enough that they've taken on a patina of
truth. Further, the perception of such a bias has cowed many
media outlets into presenting more conservative opinions to
counterbalance a bias, which does not, in fact, exist. |
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As Washington editor for the Nation,
David Corn has assembled what many will see as an impressive
body of evidence against Bush in The
Lies of George W. Bush. In this scathing
indictment of the president and his inner circle, David Corn,
the Washington editor of The Nation, reveals and
examines the deceptions at the heart of the Bush presidency.
“George W. Bush is a liar. He has lied large and small,
directly and by omission. He has mugged the truth—not
merely in honest error, but deliberately, consistently, and
repeatedly.”
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In Bushwhacked,
syndicated columnist Molly Ivins looks at George Bush Jr.'s
first term as president. The picture she paints is unremittingly
bleak—unless, of course, you’re a big campaign donor
well served by Bush’s prescription for all economic ills
(deregulation, tax cuts for those who need them least, and lax
enforcement of worker and environmental safety standards). Ivins
is particularly good in showing how the Bush administration’s
policies have hurt ordinary Americans, making their jobs, homes,
water, and food less safe. |
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In Thieves
in High Places, author, populist, and radio commentator
Jim Hightower lambastes the current American power structure
and exhorts his readers to fight against it. Hightower's indignation
runs deep in this "us versus them" exposé of
corporate malfeasance, governmental abuse, the militarization
of American society, and the Bush administration's empire building.
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We didn't really like this book as much as Stupid
White Men. However, this said, Where's
My Country? stands out for its harsh words
for George W. Bush and his fellow conservatives concerning the
reasoning behind going to war in Iraq, the collapse of Enron
and other companies, and the relationship between the Bushes,
the Saudi Arabian government, and Osama bin Laden. Moore's book
is intended to serve as a handbook for how people with liberal
opinions can take back their country from the conservative forces
in power. |
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The
Bush-Haters Handbook is a godsend to those
looking for a concise, mordantly entertaining overview of the
Bush record from a liberal perspective, or those who want to
arm themselves with talking points, facts, and figures for debates
with conservatives, and at those seeking the perfect holiday
gift book for that certain, special Bush-hater in their lives-or
for a Bush-lover they hope to rescue from the outer darkness.
This book is the brainchild of Jack Huberman, a former Canadian
who took up U.S. citizenship just so he could vote against Dubya
in 2000. |
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The
Great Unraveling is a chronicle of how "the
heady optimism of the late 1990s gave way to renewed gloom as
a result of "incredibly bad leadership, in the private
sector and in the corridors of power." Offering his own
take on the trickle-down theory, economist and columnist Paul
Krugman lays much of the blame for a slew of problems on the
Bush administration, which he views as a "revolutionary
power...a movement whose leaders do not accept the legitimacy
of our current political system." |
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Check back, there are more books to come! Books
against the Bush presidency are being published so quickly it
is difficult to keep up with them! |
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