Please help me understand the role of oil in the motivations for the 2003 Iraq invasion. [more inside]
posted by atmosphere on Sep 15, 2009 - 12 answers

How do I keep my dogs from peeing on the concrete? [more inside]
posted by tryniti on Jul 13, 2009 - 10 answers

What is this tree? [more inside]
posted by thermonuclear.jive.turkey on May 27, 2009 - 6 answers

What responsibility does the Bush administration bear for the current financial crisis? [more inside]
posted by Lownotes on Mar 25, 2009 - 28 answers

What's up with my rose bush? [more inside]
posted by Burhanistan on Mar 6, 2009 - 7 answers

Are the contents of the letters from US Presidents to their successors available in the National Archives or Presidential Libraries? [more inside]
posted by BobbyVan on Jan 21, 2009 - 9 answers

What will outgoing President Bush be doing during the Obama inauguration? [more inside]
posted by gregb1007 on Jan 18, 2009 - 6 answers

Did the terrorists want Obama to win? [more inside]
posted by InsanePenguin on Jan 9, 2009 - 32 answers

Where are the online sources for (relatively) high quality video of George W. Bush acting ridiculous on camera? [more inside]
posted by jeremias on Jan 1, 2009 - 0 answers

May George W. Bush refuse a pardon from Barack Obama? [more inside]
posted by Ironmouth on Nov 17, 2008 - 19 answers

Does anyone else remember this SNL sketch with Gore and Kerry commiserating about losing to Bush? [more inside]
posted by rustcellar on Sep 15, 2008 - 10 answers

Help me rationally and calmly document the Bush administration to a friend who thinks history will hold it in "high regard"? [more inside]
posted by idb on Sep 14, 2008 - 34 answers

I'd honestly like to know why half of America voted for George W. Bush in 2000: what their reasoning was. [more inside]
posted by WCityMike on Aug 25, 2008 - 100 answers

Looking for a segment composed by MSNBC's David Schuster in which he compiles a montage of clips showing Bush repeatedly insisting he would get warrants before eavesdropping on phone calls of American citizens. [more inside]
posted by king walnut on Aug 5, 2008 - 2 answers

Does anyone have a good download link for the entirety of thepartyparty's tracks? I remember I used to have 8 or 9 different remixes, but the website seems to have whittled that down to only 5, and with no clean download links. I need my "Dick is a Killer"!
posted by TheNewWazoo on Jul 20, 2008 - 2 answers

I haven't watched The Simpsons regularly since about season 12 or 13, but in those episodes I did happen to catch on TV, I have never seen them directly attack President Bush. I do remember back in the 'golden age' they used to regularly poke fun at Clinton (to name but one example, Clinton playing the sax and Moe telling him to "get back to work"). I'm wondering if regular watchers of The Simpsons can point me to episodes from season 13 onwards where they did directly parody or attack Bush.
posted by Effigy2000 on Feb 14, 2008 - 19 answers

What stereotypes do Americans have of Massachusetts and New England? [more inside]
posted by gregb1007 on Jan 1, 2008 - 64 answers

I have just spent the afternoon watching stocks around the world decline partially based on sub prime market fallout. My question is how can things be so great when the Fed is handing out stacks of cash to keep things stable (34 Billion USD and counting, not including the international bail out)?
posted by Funmonkey1 on Aug 10, 2007 - 25 answers

Where can I find hi-res images of George W Bush--especially candid pics? I've checked all the usual places (google images, whitehouse.gov, etc). I'd even pay a few bucks if necessary.
posted by jpoulos on Aug 8, 2007 - 6 answers

How do I remove stubborn rear subframe bushes on my 2003 MK3 Ford Mondeo? [more inside]
posted by aqueousdan on Jul 14, 2007 - 3 answers

Celebrating George W. Bush's birthday ironically - any ideas for party games, trivia questions or otherwise? [more inside]
posted by Ash3000 on Jul 6, 2007 - 32 answers

Why is the presidential administration working so persistently to bequeath extra powers to their likely Democrat successors? [more inside]
posted by jimmyjimjim on Jul 5, 2007 - 31 answers

Is there a parallel between the Special Prosecutor problem in US v. Nixon and the commutation of a sentence imposed pursuant to a Special Prosecutor investigation, as in the case of "Scooter" Libby? [more inside] [more inside]
posted by spiderwire on Jul 4, 2007 - 17 answers

Are there any good quality, tropical weight, 100% cotton pants for close to $50? [more inside]
posted by birchhook on May 15, 2007 - 6 answers

In light of a recent mefi post, I'd like to ask a question I've been meaning to ask for a long time. Where can I find the most thorough indictment of the Bush administration and its activities to date? [more inside]
posted by Lockeownzj00 on May 14, 2007 - 13 answers

Does Laura Bush really smoke cigarettes? Did she ever? Did she quit then start again? Evidence please. I need to win, or at least start, a bar argument.
posted by Mister_A on Apr 25, 2007 - 7 answers

[AppropriationsFilter] If the Democrats vote *against* funding the troop escalation, what recourse does the President have to follow through with his plan? [more inside]
posted by willie11 on Feb 7, 2007 - 4 answers

Some time during the past few years, I'm sure I read a quote from someone connected with the Bush administration, but I can't seem to find it now. Something along the lines of "El Salvador's current government is the political ideal." Can anyone point me to the quote, and some context for it?
posted by maryh on Feb 5, 2007 - 6 answers

How do civics teachers handle their jobs? [more inside]
posted by SBMike on Dec 12, 2006 - 15 answers

Trying to track down a couple of Doonesbury cartoons. [more inside]
posted by hwestiii on Dec 8, 2006 - 8 answers

Does the US President take his own car on overseas trips and how? [more inside]
posted by priorpark17 on Nov 13, 2006 - 15 answers

Did President Bush swear today during his speech? [more inside]
posted by pwally on Nov 8, 2006 - 17 answers

We have 2 mature boxwood bushes (about 10 years old) that are roughly 5 feet tall and 4 feet in diameter. My wife hates them because they obscure our front door. She wants me to cut them down and trash them. Being the cheapskate I am, I would like to dig them up (difficult, I know) and sell them. My question - is there a market for these and roughly how much do they sell for? It looks like small ones sell for $10-$20, but I couldn't find any large ones. Thanks for helping settle this marital dispute.
posted by stockaholic on Oct 30, 2006 - 8 answers

Any help identifying this plant? It's a shrub about 10' high and the photo shows what it looks like in October in New England. Bonus points if you can provide a reference about whether it's poisonous or not.
posted by cocoagirl on Oct 30, 2006 - 9 answers

So George W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, and Kim Jong-Il walk into a bar... [more inside]
posted by wfrgms on Oct 18, 2006 - 24 answers

I was at a restaurant recently and they were playing a foreign language cover of Bush's "Machinehead." The cover version was much slower but the melody was recognizable and every once in awhile the singer would say "machinehead" in english. Does anybody have any idea who this is by?
posted by blim8183 on Oct 2, 2006 - 5 answers

I heard a snippet on the radio about Bush naming the General that was responsible for capturing Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Turned out the General's involvement and association to anything was highly confidential, his name not even being listed at the base he worked out of. Anyone Know of something to back that up? I can't find anything.
posted by andywolf on Jul 12, 2006 - 2 answers

I'm getting pretty tired of hearing the line "if you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to worry about" in regards to what's happening right now in Washington. I've heard some long articulate responses to this, but what's a good one or two sentence response that succinctly points out the error in this line of thinking?
posted by WetherMan on Jun 1, 2006 - 56 answers

Was this actually shown on TV?
posted by owalt1 on May 30, 2006 - 10 answers

This thread got me thinking about contemporary protest songs. [more inside]
posted by Astro Zombie on Apr 16, 2006 - 50 answers

Say you wanted to organize a protest re: Bush's warrantless wiretapping... [more inside]
posted by Ash3000 on Feb 13, 2006 - 10 answers

Was what we were told about Flight 93 a myth? [more inside]
posted by brokekid on Feb 2, 2006 - 32 answers

I'm looking for a version of today's Al Gore speech I can put onto my iPod for the commute tomorrow. Does anyone know where I can find it in a format other than the annoying Real Media format?
posted by DragonBoy on Jan 16, 2006 - 5 answers

Bush used the "Zawahiri letter" today as part of his justification for his policies and the war in Iraq ... I have heard a number of doubts about it's authenticity, does anyone know what the chain of custody/origin of this letter is? and what the current conventional wisdom is on its authenticity?
posted by specialk420 on Dec 14, 2005 - 2 answers

I find the Bush Jaw Thing incredibly creepy. What the hell is behind it, and has he always done it? [more inside]
posted by interrobang on Dec 7, 2005 - 31 answers

I am looking for a website (not a specific one) that has a list of quotes from members of the Bush administration, with the quotes now obviously misleading, incorrect, and or lies. This is the kind of thing I am looking for. http://www.house.gov/schakowsky/iraqquotes_web.htm [more inside]
posted by JokingClown on Dec 6, 2005 - 9 answers

How many people, in the world, have not heard of George W. Bush. [more inside]
posted by I Foody on Nov 29, 2005 - 40 answers

Has the Bush administration been cutting or curtailing benefits to active duty soldiers and veterans, and if so, can you point me to non-opinion sources that would back up such an assertion? [more inside]
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken on Nov 18, 2005 - 6 answers

Did the President's Advisory Panel on Tax Reform radically change their plans at the last minute? I read through the first few chapters of their report (released November 1), and then googled to try to find some independent analysis. Several of the top links are angry articles from around October 14, talking about how the panel is going to recommend nothing more than a couple of minor tweaks to programs to pay for repealing the AMT, and won't "seek a wholesale reform of our tax code." But the report that came out on November 1 seems to recommend drastic changes, essentially throwing out most of the existing tax code and rewriting it from scratch. (Not that that's a bad thing.) What happened between October 14 and November 1?
posted by designbot on Nov 4, 2005 - 6 answers

Anybody know of a link to a good "Plamegate for beginners" article that I could send to someone who really wasn't paying attention until today?
posted by tizzie on Oct 28, 2005 - 16 answers