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FT.com / World - Obama in talks with Gates on Pentagon role
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, ...
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Funny Money
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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Hagel, Unrestrained, Lashes Into Bush, Rush And The GOP
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 ...
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Will Eric Holder Shift Justice Away From The Bush Model?
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 ...
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 Expect an early Obama bailout of the Big Three
Expect an early Obama bailout of the Big Three
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.
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 Burrowing
Burrowing
“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 ...
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 Perino: ‘We Did Not Torture’
Perino: ‘We Did Not Torture’
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 ...
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Did Bush’s Surge Lead To Victory?
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 ...
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The audacity of victory. You have to want it.
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 ...
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 They're not going to go without a fight
They're not going to go without a fight
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 ...
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 Stevens says he won't seek pardon from Bush
Stevens says he won't seek pardon from Bush
(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 ...
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All That Hard Work By Liberals This Year Is Finall...
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... . . .
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Another note on Lieberman: the Jeffords precedent
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 ...
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Why It Matters
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 ...
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Dems Bash Burrowing Bushies
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 ...
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Bush to Issue Midnight HHS Regulations
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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Administration Protects Bush Appointees by Converting Positions to Career Civil Service Jobs
Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. ...
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Release From the American Constitution Society
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 ...
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 Perino: Obama ‘Should Want’ Bush’s Political Appointees In His Administration
Perino: Obama ‘Should Want’ Bush’s Political Appointees In His Administration
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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