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Wal-Mart Hires a New Chief Image Maker

Dan Bartlett, a former adviser to President George W. Bush, will succeed Leslie Dach, a former Clinton White House staffer, as executive vice president of corporate affairs.

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

Conservative Sites Accuse Tommy Christopher And MSNBC Of Blaming Bush For IRS Mess

yesterdayNews : Mediaite

Last week, GOP strategist and frequent MSNBC guest Ron Christie got a bad case of The Fonzies, and couldn't quite bring himself to say that George W. Bush appointed former IRS Director Doug Schulman, who oversaw the agency while it was targeting conservative groups for extra scrutiny. Show More Summary

Bartlett: The Bush Tax-Cut Failure

New York Times: The Bush Tax-Cut Failure, by Bruce Bartlett: Ten years ago this month, Congress enacted the third major tax cut of the George W. Bush administration. Its centerpiece was a huge cut in the tax rate on dividends. Historically, they had been taxed as ordinary income, but the...

50 Percent Approve of President Obama, but 57 Percent Disapprove of Country’s Direction

yesterdayNews : Reason

The latest Reason-Rupe poll finds President Obama enjoys a 50 percent approval rating, 7 points higher than his 43 percent disapproval. However, this isn’t much different from a similar time period in President George W. Bush’s presidency. Show More Summary

Mediaite Contributor On IRS Scandal: 'They Have To Pin This On George W. Bush'

You just knew this was bound to happen. Some on the left are trying to blame George W. Bush for Obama's IRS fiasco. Take for example Mediaite's resident Obama apologist Tommy Christopher, who wrote a much ado about nothing post on May...Show More Summary

For Iowa Senator Hughes, A Field of Dreams Story

When George W. Bush won the Presidency, much was made of his past struggle with alcohol. But in fact, Bush was not the first Presidential candidate to make that revelation. Harold Hughes, a Governor turned Senator of Iowa, had waged a similar battle, and while he never came close to attaining the Presidency (he withdrew [...]

Tom Engelhardt: What Comes After Hope

The largest antiwar movement ever to protest a war that had yet to happen had just packed its tents and gone home in despair, while George W. Bush and his top officials were in their “mission accomplished” triumphalist mode.

Tom Engelhardt: What Comes After Hope

The largest antiwar movement ever to protest a war that had yet to happen had just packed its tents and gone home in despair, while George W. Bush and his top officials were in their “mission accomplished” triumphalist mode.

Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Why the Public Should Yawn Over Alleged Obama Scandals

there's the almost ritual expectation by the public that second term presidents will be dogged by some scandal. This was the case with Eisenhower, Nixon, of course, Reagan, Clinton and George W. Bush. This shouldn't surprise.

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If we had a Republican administration — a Romney or McCain or George W. Bush administration — and the IRS had systemically targeted liberal groups, while letting conservative groups slide: What would liberals be saying? What would the Democratic party be saying? What would the mainstream media be saying? I think it would be Armageddon. P.S. Show More Summary

Typical: MSNBC's Bashir, Reid Try to Blame Bush for IRS Scandal

Here's a classic from the Obama playbook: Whenever you're in trouble, find a way to blame George W. Bush for it. That concept was in play on Thursday afternoon's edition of MSNBC's Martin Bashir program, when the liberal host and contributor...Show More Summary

Bush in Rehab

Can George W. Bush's presidency be redeemed? Greg Olear takes a closer look.

How the Ex-Presidents Club Is Making the World Better

As former President George W. Bush, joined by President Obama and three living former presidents, recently dedicated his library this week in Dallas, it's important to remember that presidential libraries are relatively new

Tim_Arnold: The Real Weapons of Mass Destruction: America's 300 Million Guns

On 9/11, Islam jihadists turned four U.S. airlines into weapons of mass destruction and killed almost 3,000 people. Within a month the George W. Bush...

Networks Ignore Second Federal Court Rebuking Obama for Invalid Recess Appointments

Imagine that in a week in which George W. Bush was dogged by not one or two but three scandals -- one of which was the IRS singling out liberal groups for stricter scrutiny -- a federal appeals court invalidated a recess appointment the Republican president made, finding he improperly ran an end run around the U.S. Show More Summary

The Hispanic vote in presidential elections

(Paul Mirengoff) A reader provided me with several useful comments on my post regarding the Republican share of the Hispanic vote in presidential elections since 1980. First, he says that the figure I used for George W. Bush’s shareShow More Summary

Ari Fleischer: White House Claim Of 'One Word Change' To Talking Points Not True

Ari Fleischer knows what it's like to take the podium in the White House briefing room, especially with a hostile press corps. As the spokesman for the White House during the George W. Bush Administration he had to deal with reporters challenging the White House on a daily basis. Show More Summary

Eric Holder Unsure if Law Stopping After-Birth Abortions Has Been Enforced

Attorney General Eric Holder told a Congressional committee yesterday he is unsure if a federal law stopping after-birth abortions has been enforced. Congress approved and President George W. bush signed into law a measure known as the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, which requires that appropriate medical care and treatment be given to babies who [...]

Judge Napolitano: Obama Is Not Doing His Job

6 days agoNews : Reason

President Obama, like President George W. Bush, has argued that his first job is to keep America safe, and if he impairs personal freedom in the process, that is a small price to pay for safety. Many of Judge Napolitano's colleagues in the media on the left and right have bought this argument, notwithstanding its fallacies. Until now. View this article.

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