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