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Thursday, Jan 28
Does Rove Think Reagan And Bush Were ‘Weak’ For Discussing The ‘Situation’ They Inherited?
By Rove’s logic, conservative icon Ronald Reagan and his former boss George W. Bush were also “weak.” As Media Matters’ Matt Gertz noted last night, Reagan “devoted significant portions” of his 1982 State of the Union “to attacking President Carter’s administration for ‘the situation a...
Friday, Jan 22
After hottest decade in history, senators attempt to outlaw science of global warming.
Ms. [Lisa] Murkowski (R-AK), joined by 35 Republicans and three conservative Democrats, proposed to use the Congressional Review Act to strip the agency of the power to limit emissions of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. The Supreme Court gave the agency legal authority to regul...
Thursday, Jan 14
Obama asks George W. Bush to assist Haiti relief efforts.
Yesterday, following the tragic earthquake in Haiti, the conservative Heritage Foundation suggested that “President Obama…reach out to a senior Republican figure, perhaps former President George W. Bush, to lead the bipartisan effort” to assist the beleaguered Caribbean country....
Monday, Jan 11
Flashback: Bush Also Threatened To Withhold Loan Guarantees From Israel
Lieberman, after saying that an administration official had already disavowed Mitchell’s statement, said that in his opinion “any attempt to pressure Israel, to force Israel to the negotiating table by denying Israel support, will not pass the Congress of the United States. In fact, t...
Saturday, Jan 2
Official Army History: Bush Administration Neglected Afghan War, Diverted Resources to Iraq
Contradicting Rove and Rumsfeld, the historians blame the Iraq war for the lack of resources in Afghanistan, as well as top Bush officials and the president himself: The historians say resistance to providing more robust resources to Afghanistan had three sources in the White House an...
Thursday, Dec 17
Podcast: Steve King: Tea Partiers Are ‘Working Americans,’ Unlike The ‘Non-Working Americans’ Who Protested Bush
On WorldNetDaily’s radio show today, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) claimed that all of the protesters were “working Americans” who left their jobs to protest President Obama. King called this “a new thing” in America, asserting that it was only “a lot of non-working Americans” who protested “wh...
Sunday, Dec 13
Kristol: Obama’s Nobel Speech ‘Lays The Predicate For The Legitimate Use Of Force’ Against Iran
Kristol doesn’t ask what may be the impact on McChrystal’s efforts [in Afghanistan] of war with Iran. There’s every reason to believe, at least at this point, that the Pentagon is probably the national-security institution most adamantly opposed to an attack on Iran — be it by Israel or it...
Tuesday, Oct 27
ThinkFast: October 27, 2009
And finally: It may not be surprising to most people that President Bush was a “Jack Bauer kind of guy.” The UK Daily Express reveals that a few years ago when Bush ran into Carlos Bernard, one of the stars of the show “24,” Bush was dying to know if Bernard’s character, Tony Almeida, was a goner....
Tuesday, Apr 15
Opinion: McCain Advised On Catholic Issues By Former Bush Adviser Accused Of Sexual Misconduct
As Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) courts the Catholic vote, “part of a larger effort to build bridges with religious voters,” The New York Times reports today that his “informal adviser” on Catholic outreach is Deal W. Hudson. In 2004, Hudson advised Bush-Cheney ‘04, serving as “the architect of a...
Wednesday, Sep 5
Podcast: ThinkFast: September 5, 2007
A recent poll finds 52 percent of Australians believe Bush is the worst U.S. president ever, primarily due to his Iraq war policy. Yesterday, Australian Prime Minister John Howard told Bush he would not reduce the 1,600 Australian forces in Iraq.
Wednesday, Jun 27
Opinion: Report: ‘Shadow Goverment’ Of Private Contractors Explodes Under Bush
In the report’s review of 500 contracts, 118 contracts worth $745.5 billion “experienced significant overcharges, wasteful spending, or mismanagement over the last five years.” A recent report by American Progress Senior Fellow Scott Lilly has more details about the Bush administra...
