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 ...

What should Bush do now?
meganmcardle.theatlantic.com 11/25/2008 — One thing that I haven't seen:  work more closely with Obama's transitional economics team than an outgoing president usually does. Everything I've seen about Bush and the transition indicates that he has been entirely classy.  But right ...

Bush is a Criminal
boomantribune.com 12/20/2008 — 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 ...

Bush and Public Opinion
pewresearch.org 12/18/2008 — 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 ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

Bush: I Didn't Compromise My Soul To Be Popular
huffingtonpost.com 12/18/2008 — WASHINGTON — President George W. Bush knows he's unpopular. But here's what matters, he says: "I didn't compromise my soul to be a popular guy." In a wide-ranging interview with Fox News Channel, Bush also praised the national security team ...

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.

Biden nixes idea of pet projects in stimulus bill (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 12/23/2008
AP - With President-elect Barack Obama's team scrambling to shape a massive new economic stimulus package, Vice President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday ruled out pet projects and special interest spending.

Court reinstates clean air rule during EPA fix (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 12/23/2008
AP - A federal appeals court is reinstating one of President George W. Bush's clean air regulations while the Environmental Protection Agency makes court-mandated changes.

Biden: 'No inappropriate contact' between Obama team, Illinois gov — CNN Political Ticker 12/23/2008
Vice President-elect Joe Biden will head a new task force on working families on Jaunary 20, 2009. (CNN) — Vice President-elect Joe Biden said a report expected later today detailing contact between the Obama transition team and Illinois Gov. ...

President Bush releases Christmas statement — CNN Political Ticker 12/23/2008
Bush released a Christmas message Tuesday. The White House released a Christmas statement from President Bush Tuesday. Full statement follows: – THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press ...

Biden: No earmarks in the Obama stimulus — CNN Political Ticker 12/23/2008
WASHINGTON (CNN) – Vice President-elect Joe Biden pledged Tuesday that there would be no earmarks in the stimulus plan that he and President-elect Barack Obama are proposing to jump-start the economy. "It’s important for the American taxpayer to ...