Search Results : George W. Bush
Related Searches
Blog Post Results (1-20 of 3079)
Fox and furious friends wanted DOJ to prosecute the New York Times
Throughout the tenure of George W. Bush, many of us to the left of center warned that unchecked presidential power was putting Americans' civil liberties in jeopardy. Now with the revelations that the Obama Justice Department seizedShow More Summary
Fox Hosts Former Bush Admin. Officials To Criticize Obama's Plan To Close Guantánamo
Fox News turned to former George W. Bush administration officials to criticize President Obama's aim to close the Guantánamo Bay detention center, a facility established by the Bush administration. Obama is expected to deliver a speech reiterating his pledge to close Guantánamo and transfer its detainees to other countries. Show More Summary
Former IRS Chief: "I Certainly Am Not Personally Responsible" for Tea Party Scandal
Former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman, a George W. Bush appointee who ran the tax agency when low-level employees wrongly singled out conservative groups for special scrutiny, testified on Tuesday before Congress for the first time since the scandal erupted on May 10. Show More Summary
Abbreviated pundit round-up: A few real scandals to mix with the fake ones
Matthew Rothschild at The Progressive writes House Republicans say no free lunch for poor kids: [T]he poor and the hungry shouldn’t have to suffer because of Wall Street’s excesses and George Bush’s wars. If Republicans wanted to make...Show More Summary
Former Defense Secretary Gates Defends Benghazi Response
The former Defense Secretary, who served both George W. Bush and Barack Obama, said those who think the military could have saved lives in Benghazi have a “cartoonish” view. “To send some small number of special forces or other troops in without knowing what the environment is, without knowing what the threat is, without having [...]
Our Very Own West, Texas
On April 25 - Thursday evening - American icon and humble hero George W Bush took one small step for man, one slip-and-fall for humanity - as he re-entered a spotlight until-recently blissful to have been abandoned by him, for the dedication of his presidential library. Show More Summary
Bush’s Secretary of Defense Mocks GOP Attacks On Obama’s Handling Of Benghazi
Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, a Republican who was appointed to the position by George W. Bush, told CBS News on Saturday that he would have handled the situation in Benghazi the same way that the Obama administration did last September. During an interview that aired on CBS’ Face the Nation on Sunday morning, [...]
Hallelujah: Mark Sanford and the Abolition of GOP “Family Values” Trojan Horse
Mark Sanford, David Vitter, and George W. Bush – proofs in support of a startling, surprising, and significant evolution in modern politics: The Republican Party has now officially, undeniably, and forever forfeited the “Family Values”...Show More Summary
STUDY: In Supreme Court’s Past 65 Years, Two George W. Bush Appointees Most Likely To Side With Business Interests
In recent years, several reports and studies have observed the evident skew in favor of business of the U.S. Supreme Court led by Chief Justice John G. Roberts. Thus far, this term has proved to be no exception, with a 6-1 win rate by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Last month, three professors who are [...]
First Comes Out For Gay Marriage Then Admits To Smoking Pot
What will we hear next from Ohio Senator Rob Portman? The highlight of Sen. Rob Portman’s BuzzFeed Brews interview Monday night wasn’t his pitchy rendition of Randy Newman’s “Burn On,” nor was it his remark that George W. Bush “certainly did his level best” during his tenure as president. It was that the conservative senator [...]
Remember When George H.W. Bush Quit The NRA?
Pat Cunningham reminds us by republishing his letter of resignation from 1995. Dear Mr. Washington [then-NRA President Tom Washington], I was outraged when, even in the wake of the Oklahoma City tragedy, Mr. Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of N.R.A., defended his attack on federal agents as “jack-booted thugs.” To attack Secret Service agents or A.T.F. [...]
Buchanan on Syria: 'Their War, Not Ours'
Patrick Buchanan: [I]f Barack Obama plunges into Syria's civil war, it could consume his presidency, even as Iraq consumed the presidency of George W. Bush.... Even if elements of Assad's army did use sarin, we ought not plunge in. And, fortunately, that seems to be Obama's thinking. Show More Summary
Melissa-Harris Perry Takes on 'Self-Written History' on Katrina Response at Bush Library
Click here to view this media If you didn't think the new George W. Bush library and its "Decision Theater" was bad enough already for the history revisionism on the invasion of Iraq, as MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry explained this Thursday...Show More Summary
This week in science: In new light
Via Bad Astronomy: I have this awful feeling in the pit of my stomach, one I haven’t had since the Bad Old Days of George W. Bush’s administration, when scientific reports were routinely censored, when appointees with no qualifications...Show More Summary
Cheers and Jeers: Rum and Coke FRIDAY!
From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE…
Oh! More Things I Know:
> Every state in New England now allows gay couples to get married. We will never stop bragging about this, so get used to it.
> I really wish they'da built the George W. Bush Museum in The Hague.
> Whenever I sign my name to anything, I use a separate pen for each individual letter. Show More Summary
Tonight: An encore presentation of Hubris: Selling the Iraq War
With the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum opening this week and raising the need for a factual antidote to its "special kind of propaganda" and overall outrageousness, tonight seemed like a good night for a re-air of Rachel Maddow's documentary Hubris: Selling the I …
Choose your own misadventure at the Bush Presidential Library
Below is 8 minutes of video showing the creepily manipulative game play for the Iraq invasion portion of the Decision Points Theater exhibit at the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum that Rachel shared tonight and talked about with Col. Lawrence Wilkerson. Actually it …
Midday open thread
Today's comic by Jen Sorensen is Perry's Mentor:
Still free to roam at will.
Ten years ago: Bush strutted below "Mission Accomplished" banner. At the time George W. Bush announced in a PR stunt 10 years ago today that major combat operations had ended in the U.S. Show More Summary
Gitmo Torture Memoir of Mohamedou Ould Slahi
SLATE has published excerpts of a Gitmo torture memoir that should be required reading in Congress and in the Obama administration. It should then be passed to Ron Fournier who recently wrote a sloppy love poem to George W. Bush. The first installment of the torture memoir is here, but hold on, because it unmasks, [...]Show More Summary
Thanks W!
This past week, the Republican Party asked Americans to join in the celebration marking the opening of the George W. Bush Presidential Library. In addition to offering "Thanks W" stickers (fittingly available only in black and white),...Show More Summary