boomantribune.com - 12/20/2008
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Dan Eggen reports: It was bad enough for President Bush to have shoes tossed at his head during his farewell journey to Baghdad. Now comes a new poll in which Americans call Bush all sorts of names -- some of them a lot worse than "dog." In a poll by the Pew Research Center for the People & ...
breitbart.com - 12/17/2008
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breitbart.com —
US President George W. Bush said in an
interview Tuesday he was forced to sacrifice free market
principles to save the economy from "collapse." "I've abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system," Bush told CNN television, saying ...
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Bush says sacrificed free-market principles to save economy
pewresearch.org - 12/18/2008
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pewresearch.org —
Just 11% say Bush will be remembered as
an outstanding or above average president -- by far
the lowest positive end-of-term rating for any of the past four presidents. Yet Bush's impact on public opinion over the past eight years is seen in ways that ...
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Bush and Public Opinion
people-press.org - 12/20/2008
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people-press.org —
As George W. Bush prepares to leave the
White House, the United States is in many ways
dramatically different from when he took the oath of office in 2001. His first few months as president were largely unremarkable, despite the contentious 2000 ...
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Overview: Bush and Public Opinion: Bush and Public Opinion
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No respect without accountability
Newshoggers.com —
... we've adopted. It's why Dick Cheney feels free to smugly admit in public that he authorized these war crimes. He knows that the Ruth Marcuses of the world will intervene to defend him. Still, it's one thing to argue that American political leaders should have the power to commit crimes. It's another thing entirely to advance the insultingly deceitful and Orwellian claim that doing so is necessary so we can focus on preventing similar lawbreaking in the future.
Booman struck a similar theme this morning as related to Obama's stated reluctance to go after ...
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Obama should be like Bush
the-reaction.blogspot.com 11/10/2008 — By Michael J.W. Stickings At least according to TNR's Jonathan Cohn. Cohn argues that has actually accomplished a great deal as president, from overhauling the tax code to reforming education to gutting the regulatory state to rewriting ...
Rehabilitating Bush
chicagoboyz.net 11/11/2008 — Let the rehabilitation of Bush begin! For the past 8 years, the most strident and hysterical leftist criticism of Bush has centered on his intelligence policies which leftist assured us arose purely out of a callous disregard for civil liberties and ...
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pajamasmedia.com 11/11/2008 — November 11, 2008 NO SURPRISE: "President-elect Barack Obama is unlikely to radically overhaul controversial Bush administration intelligence policies, advisers say, an approach that is almost certain to create tension within the Democratic Party. ...
No we can't
lefarkins.blogspot.com 11/18/2008 — This story , indicating that the Obama administration is bailing on the idea even investigating whether criminal charges ought to be brought against Bush administration officials who committed war crimes such as torture, is very discouraging. From the ...
We let Bush down
washingtonmonthly.com 11/6/2008 — WE LET BUSH DOWN.... A friend emailed me last night, telling me that this op-ed from the Wall Street Journal may very well be the single most foolish op-ed ever published in a major American newspaper. That's obviously a difficult...
Halperin Hearts Bush
dailykos.com 1/2/2009 — What next? Is he going to want to see Bush's face on Mt. Rushmore ? Let's take just three things that are totally wrong about Halperin's analysis: 1) Halperin asserts Bush didn't want the presidency as much as most people who seek it. Well ...
What's Wrong with Beltway Journalism
boomantribune.com 11/11/2008 — Dan Eggen of the Washington Post got the assignment to do a set-piece pre-post-mortem on the Bush administration. You know the drill. You interview a few Bush staffers (current and retired), you get some quotes on how sad everyone is about how things ...
York: Bush Loyalty Test
article.nationalreview.com 1/4/2009 — The people who have worked with George W. Bush in the White House for many of these past eight years have seen a different man from the one reflected in so much negative press coverage.
Katrina and Bush
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com 1/1/2009 — Presidential
Not presidential
So everyone is talking about the Vanity Fair article in which Bush aides say that Katrina is what did him in. I don't think that's entirely true, but what I'd like to focus on is why Katrina was such a problem for ...
'Drill, baby, drill' process has begun —
CNN Political Ticker 12/20/2008
As the price of gas surged past $4 a gallon this summer, U.S. drilling became a hot political issue.
WASHINGTON (CNN) – Remember "drill, baby drill"? In its last weeks in office, the Bush administration is starting to make it happen by ...
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