nationaljournal.com - 11/21/2008
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As George W. Bush's presidency winds down, the Republican Party's greatest problem is that it doesn't appear to be reaching much of anybody who isn't already watching Fox News. Bush leaves behind a party that looks less like a coalition than a clubhouse. The consistent thread linking the 2006 ...
mediamatters.org - 11/21/2008
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mediamatters.org —
In anticipation of the new administration, Beltway media
insiders are busy laying the groundwork for how reporters...
and pundits will treat the new team on Pennsylvania Avenue. "Once a president takes office ... an adversarial relationship ...
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Boehlert: Covering new presidents: the media's double ...
washingtonmonthly.com - 11/24/2008
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washingtonmonthly.com —
I n March 2001, U.S. Archivist John W.
Carlin received a letter from Alberto Gonzales, then counsel...
to the newly inaugurated president George W. Bush. It concerned an important deadline that was looming one that Bush owed to Richard Nixon. In 1974, ...
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Last Secrets of the Bush Administration - Charles Homans
theanchoressonline.com - 11/20/2008
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theanchoressonline.com —
I’m still trying to keep to my new
pledge of only writing about politics when it intersects...
with religion, but it does seem only fair to note that, Old Europe, which has been struggling all along with its restrictions, has finally admitted ...
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Bush was right. Victorious, too
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This Apolcalyptic Rhetoric Is Getting Ridiculous
The Next Right —
... In the last couple weeks we've seen no shortage of sentiment implying that the GOP is in something akin to death throes, provided that it doesn't come to resemble something other than the modern GOP. This post has been building in me for a while, but the latest piece by Ron Brownstein, titled The Bush GOP's Fatal Contraction, kind of set me off. ...
Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos —
... her to walk into foreign capitals and deal with the president or prime minister on level footing. And in the face of a cratering economy likely to consume the first year (or more) of Obama’s term, handing off the foreign-policy legwork to a savvy, tough, high-profile surrogate with roundly acknowledged expertise on the relevant issues holds no small appeal. Issac Cheriyathu: Bush wasn't that bad. No, really. I'm serious. Honest. No kidding. Ron Brownstein: All of these trends expose the same dynamic: Democrats are ...
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