washingtonmonthly.com - 11/6/2008
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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...
hotair.com - 11/5/2008
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hotair.com —
This morning, after having absorbed the substantial victory
of Barack Obama, I noticed a couple of interesting
items in the data. Barack Obama certainly won this race, but he won it with just a little more votes than George Bush won in his ...
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Notes from the collapse
nationaljournal.com - 11/9/2008
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nationaljournal.com —
It detracts nothing from Barack Obama's achievement to
note that his historic electoral success rests atop the
epic political failure of George W. Bush. If Obama is shrewd enough, there's a lesson for the new president in the failure of the old one. ...
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National Journal Magazine - Bush's Failing Final Grade
washingtonmonthly.com - 11/9/2008
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washingtonmonthly.com —
Change We Can Believe In From the Washington
Post: "Transition advisers to President-elect Barack Obama have compiled
a list of about 200 Bush administration actions and executive orders that could be swiftly undone to reverse White House policies on ...
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Change We Can Believe In
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Electing a Scary Black Man President Isn't the End of the World
Jon Swift —
... a very amusing and creative “Bush Resignation Letter” in which Bush explains how great he was to all the ingrates. “I'm fed up with you people,” the faux Bush says. “I'm fed up because you have no understanding of what's really going on in the world – or of what's going on in this once-great nation of ours. And the majority of you are too damn lazy to do your homework and figure it out.” The Wall Street Journal has already begun assigning blame for the Bush Administration’s problems where it belongs: to the American people. In an editorial titled “The Treatment of ...
Never Failing, Always Failed
The Republic of T. —
... The jaw-dropper, though, comes from the Wall Street Journal, (hat-tip to Steve Benen at Political Animal) where they’ve apparently learned well (or not so well) something Rick pointed out earler: ...
Never Failing, Always Failed
Booman Tribune —
... that should give Democrats something to think about. Read his post for more on that. The jaw-dropper, though, comes from the Wall Street Journal , (hat-tip to Steve Benen at Political Animal ) where they've apparently learned well (or not so well) something Rick pointed out earler: ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Obama go to to White House next week —
CNN Political Ticker 11/6/2008
Bush said a smooth transition is his priority.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Bush will meet President-elect Obama "early next week," he Bush vowed that he will keep a promise to "sprint to the finish" of his administration, which ends with ...
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