The political euphemism glossary, which is non-partisan and being built gradually, is a catalog of the tools, words, and phrases used by political minds to shape how we think or worse, lull us into such a complacency we fail to critically think at all.
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Hardly a month goes by these days without a Bush administration appointee resigning under a cloud of controversy. So many have resigned that it actually has become difficult to remember every one of them. Some were well illuminated by the mainstream media while others were just a passing blip on the political radar. How [...]

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Monday, July 23rd
Attorney General Gonzales:
I could walk away or I could devote my time, effort and energy to fix the problems. Since I have never been one to quit, I decided that the best course of action was to remain here and fix the problems. That is exactly what I am doing.
Senator Whitehouse:
I don’t know [...]

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Sara Taylor, White House Political Director from 2005-2007, serves as a prime example of the cancer that has taken hold within the Bush administration. I wrote previously about President Bush’s placing political loyalty over his loyalty to his constitutional oath. That attitude seems to have permeated the senior White House staff also. Ms. Taylor, [...]

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Tony Snow bent over backwards during his July 3rd briefing to avoid saying that the President respects the justice system by proclaiming his faith in the “jury system”
But the President also believes, for those who were arguing on behalf of a pardon, that you need to respect the jury system. Scooter Libby was tried before [...]

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This from Bloomberg:
A resolution to express “no confidence” in Alberto Gonzales, President George W. Bush’s embattled attorney general, was blocked by U.S. Senate Republicans who called it a meaningless gesture… Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell chided Democrats for “spending our time on a meaningless resolution about giving the president advice about who the attorney general [...]

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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has a lot of explaining to do. The problem for him is it really doesn’t matter what the explanation is. He will end up either looking like a White House political lackey, disengaged leader, or an incompetent leader. Whether he actually did anything wrong depends on what you expect from the [...]

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