It’s Official: Bush Presided Over Weakest Economy in Decades
President Bush has presided over the weakest eight-year span for the U.S.
Bush Gives Advice To The GOP
It would seem a bit counterintuitive for the GOP to take political advice from the man that drove it to its current state of disrepair and minority status. But George W
Alexander Dresner: Has President Bush Changed?
After eight years in office, President Bush is a changed man; well, sort of. The strains of his White House years have manifested themselves in noticeable ways, particularly in recent months: his default facial expression is now a demure one, and his once salt-and-pepper hair is becoming whiter by the day.
Obama Leaves Door Open To Investigating Bush, But Wants To "Look Forward"
Responding to the most popular inquiry on the “Open for Questions” feature of his website, Barack Obama said on Sunday that he is “evaluating” whether or not to investigate potential crimes of the Bush administration, but that he was inclined to “look forward as opposed to looking backwards.” The answer was delivered during an interview to This Week With George Stephanopoulos. But the question itself has been weeks in the work
Bush "Fox News Sunday" Interview: I Refused To "Bail Out" GOP
President Bush says he refused to “bail out my political party” by withdrawing troops “during the darkest days of Iraq,” a decision now lauded by his father in an unprecedented joint interview of both presidents by Brit Hume on “FOX News Sunday.” “During the darkest days of Iraq, people came to me and said, ‘You’re creating incredible political difficulties for us,’” the current president said as his term draws to a close. “And I said, ‘Oh, really?
ZP Heller: We Can’t Afford to Sink Deeper into the Afghan Quagmire
Let's be clear: the war in Afghanistan is not "the good war." It is not "the right war," as President-elect Obama has called it. Nor is it really Bush's war, considering how many Congressional representatives (Democrats included) initially supported it and continue to favor the Obama administration's calls for escalation. And yet it's not quite Obama's war either — though it could be soon. Right now it's just our country's war, and as such we need to be able to discuss it frankly and freely — with open discourse that was absent in the run up to both this war and the one in Iraq. I initially felt conflicted when the US waged war in Afghanistan. When 9/11 happened, I was a senior at Brandeis University, taking a Sociology class with anti-war activist and campus fixture Gordie Fellman, and had just finished reading his book, Rambo and the Dalai Lama . "Shift Happens," Fellman said on the first day of class, a prescient warning for the weeks ahead as our aggrieved and grieving nation embraced its adversarial impulses with lightning speed, rallying "patriotically" behind President Bush and Congress in near unanimous support for the war
Howard Schweber: Israel in Gaza: Three Wrong Arguments
Two days ago, a resolution of support for Israel jointly sponsored by Sen.Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was adopted in the Senate by unanimous consent. The resolution includes an uncritical recitation of some classic elements of the basic AIPAC-fueled neo-Zionist pro-Israel narrative that has dominated American national political discourse since the 1980s.
Will Ferrell Promises His Bush On Broadway Will Surprise
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Dan Becker and James Gerstenzang: Bush, Blowing Global Warming Decision, Opens Door for Obama
In a little-noticed decision, the Bush administration this week slammed the environmental door — walking away from what could have been its most far-reaching measure to cool a warming climate while heating up a frozen economy. With the same stroke, President Bush handed the Obama administration a major opportunity to establish its own environmental credentials, even as it wrestles with an economic bailout made all the more pressing by Friday’s frightening 7.2% unemployment report.
Ari Melber: Torture Prosecutor Tops 70,000 Questions for Obama on Change.Gov
A whopping 70,000 questions poured into Change.gov over the past week, in response to the Obama transition team’s call for citizen queries to the President-Elect. After votes from about 100,000 people, the top ranked question asks Obama whether he will appoint a special prosecutor to investigate allegations of torture and illegal surveillance by the U.S.
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