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President-elect Barack Obama and Robert Gates are negotiating
terms under which the defence secretary would remain as
Pentagon chief in his administration, the Financial Times has learned. Mr Obama, through an intermediary, has approached Mr Gates, ...
Barack Obama s message may have been about
hope and change, but his campaign was more about
marketing. Even Karl Rove, the brilliant Republican strategist who helped orchestrate George Bush s two presidential victories, expressed admiration for the ...
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George W. Bush Latest Blog Posts [more]
Bipartisan
Posted 25 minutes ago at Suburban Guerrilla
Still Waiting for that Hope and Change
Posted 35 minutes ago at Reason Magazine - Hit & Run
Grand jury indicts Cheney, Gonzales
Posted 79 minutes ago at WTF Is It Now?!?
Will Eric Holder Shift Justice Away From The Bush Model?
Posted 85 minutes ago at TPMMuckraker
Netroots livid with Lieberman holding on to his key committee chairmanship
Posted 93 minutes ago at WTF Is It Now?!?
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Two months before he leaves office, Sen. Chuck
Hagel is increasingly unrestrained by political niceties. Appearing at
a forum at the Johns Hopkins School of Advances International Studies, the outgoing Nebraska Republican leveled harsh criticism ...
Barack Obama looks likely to pick Eric Holder
-- who during the Clinton administration held the number
two post at Justice -- to be his next attorney general. Under Bush, as TPMmuckraker has chronicled, the department was subjected to an ...
This week's Congressional shenanigans are just chumming the
waters and to allow the networks to have all
Thanksgiving and Christmas to run "woe is me" stories about the wonderful hard working union families facing economic extinction after the holidays.
“Burrowing” — a practice by which political appointees
are transformed into career civil servants near the end
of a presidential transition — is a time-honored Washington tradition, albeit not a particularly good one. And ...
The Bush had administration repeatedly insists that it
does not practice torture: “ We do not torture
,” President Bush declared in 2005. The U.S. “ is not torturing any detainees ,” White House Press Secretary Dana Perino ...
BUSH'S VICTORY Andrew Bolt Iraq - before the
surge and now. (Via Instapundit.) UPDATE Edward Luttwak says
Iraq is not the full measure of George Bush's triumph: Of course, the Bush victory has not yet been recognised, which is very odd indeed ...
Obvious to those whose minds are not colonized:
There is no way to end a war but
through victory or defeat. Defeat is embraced through various forms of nuanced language, such as "end it," "honorable withdrawal" and "redeploy." Victory requires no ...
Despite the fact that most Americans might hope
that Bush lays low in the final days of
his historically unpopular presidency, he’s decided to try to push through at least one last-minute agenda: a plan that would allow health care providers to ...
(CNN) — Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Arkansas, who was
recently convicted on seven felony counts, said Tuesday he
won’t ask President Bush to pardon him. “No, no, no,” Stevens responded emphatically when asked if he would seek a pardon. The ...
So Joe Lieberman is keeping his chairmanship of
the Homeland Security Committee on the say so of
42 Senate Democrats AND President Obama; his Secretar... . . .
Do yourself a favor and read Barton Gellman's
book Angler: the Cheney Vice Presidency, for all kinds
of reasons. It has gotten a lot of good press and rightly so. One passage that has been overlooked, however, concerns the debate within the Bush ...
In the end, the Lieberman fight isn't entirely
about Lieberman. Yes, people want to see consequences doled
out for the perennially back-stabbing Senator who formed his own political party when his own Democratic voters voted him out, who used his ...
Yesterday we flagged a Washington Post report about
the "burrowing" of Bush administration political appointees into career
jobs at various departments -- most prominently Interior -- where it will be difficult for the incoming Obama administration ...
The New York Times has a piece this
morning about the Health and Human Services (HHS) regulations
that the Bush administration is planning to slip onto the books before he leaves office - you know, the one that would prevent family planning clinics ...
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FORMER DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL HOLDER BLASTS ADMINISTRATION'S “WAR
ON TERROR” In Speech To American Constitution Society Holder
Outlines Steps To Make Nation More Secure Washington, D.C. -- Eric H. Holder Jr., Deputy Attorney General during the ...
The Washington Post reported this morning that between
March and November, the Bush administration has “ burrowed
” at least 20 political appointees into career civil service posts, initially depriving President-elect Obama of the chance ...
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- Administration Protects Bush Appointees by Converting Positions to Career Civil Service Jobs
- Tina Brown: Bush Library To Be "Halloween Shop Of Horrors," Presidency "A Chapter Of Hideous Accidents"
- Dick Cheney Indicted By Texas Jury
- Twice The Stimulus: Reid, Byrd Offer $100M Measure
- AP: Obama Unlikely To Seek Torture Charges, Advisers Tell AP He'll Set Up Panel To Probe Interrogations, But Criminal Charges Unlikely
- Corn: Hey, Only the Left Is Allowed to Make Hitler Analogies, Or Something Like That
- HOLDER'S HUMAN RIGHTS CRED.
- Obama in Talks With Gates
- Gates Might Stick Around
- Obama Advisers: Torture Prosecutions Not Likely
- NEW YORK TIMES: “We don’t say it all that often, but President Bush is right: Congress should pass…
- Guns, Bailouts, Gitmo and Soap
- AFL-CIO Ramps Up In Georgia Senate Runoff
- Administration Protects Bush Appointees by Converting Positions to Career Civil Service Jobs
- Iran-made Weapons Less Than 1% Of All Iraq Caches Found
- Sen. Sessions’ letter to President Bush: Wake up!
- No we can't
- Obama: Clinton's 'obliterate' Iran statement too much like Bush
- History Favors Republicans in 2010
- Yet Another Obama Broken Promise to the Left












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