“Right now, the best case is simply to sit back and root for injuries between the warring parties in Libya — not intervening for either side.” Using the same rationale George W. Bush used to go into Iraq, Barack Obama has now gone into Libya. It seems that the world is upside down. Suddenly Republicans are concerned about going into a Middle Eastern country and | Read More »
A lot of the media and all of the Democrats seem to forget one simple fact about the Bush tax cuts: they were passed in response to a recession occurring as George W. Bush and Dick Cheney entered office. Moe Lane wrote an excellent post about the impact of the Democrats not extending the Bush tax cuts, but what about what they actually did. We | Read More »
Dana Perino does not like Matt Latimer’s book. For those who don’t know, Latimer is writing an insider’s account of the Bush White House. It is the first from an unapologetic conservative. Latimer’s credentials as a real winger can’t really be messed with. He is one of us. And he is making some news. Dana Perino has run to National Review to call him a | Read More »
On September 9, 2009, Barack Obama will address a Joint Session of Congress. He wants to get the trains back on track for health care reform. As Mike Allen notes, in 2001 President George W. Bush addressed a Joint Session of Congress as the first President to do so outside a State of the Union speech or a traditional first address. The reason? International terrorism. | Read More »
There are no stories today about O’s being pried off keyboards in the White House. When Bush entered the White House, the W’s were gone. There’s an unsubstantiated rumor that the Bushies shut down the comment line at the White House, but I’ve gotten no confirmation and, if true, that doesn’t strike me as anything malicious like yanking letters off keyboards. But, like pointing out | Read More »
The new White House website is up. It’s actually not bad. Of course, the new administration just couldn’t do it gracefully. They had to get in a few digs, like this one: President Obama will keep the broken promises made by President Bush to rebuild New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. He and Vice President Biden will take steps to ensure that the federal government | Read More »
George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney leave Washington today. For eight years they have ably served the nation, keeping us safe. The media, wrapped up in the deification of Barack H. Obama, has given little time to reflect on the administration of George W. Bush. We get the bumper sticker cliches. But serious reflection has been missing. President Bush did not set out to | Read More »
Maybe Karl Rove just took time out of his busy schedule to pen a lie about the President. Yes, that must be it. It couldn’t be the truth. It all started on New Year’s Eve in 2005. President Bush asked what my New Year’s resolutions were. I told him that as a regular reader who’d gotten out of the habit, my goal was to read | Read More »
Kosovo has named a street after President Bush. Kosovo decided Wednesday to name a central street of its capital Pristina after outgoing US President George W. Bush for his support of the territory’s split from Serbia. Backed unanimously by Kosovo’s cabinet, Prime Minister Hashim Thaci said the move was “a sign of the huge state and national respect and appreciation” for the United States’ contribution | Read More »
I find it hard to believe Obama could be more disastrous at this point on the auto bailout than George Bush has been. Jenn Rubin points out that the Senate was very close to a deal on the bailout, but Gettelfinger, the UAW head, refused to any concessions to get a deal. Why? Because he knew he could get everything he wanted from George Bush | Read More »
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