Obama M.O.: Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. (Check it out. He just loves working the other side of the fence.)
Bob Cesca | Posted 01.07.2009 | Politics
The notion that Bush somehow rose above and beyond the very basic template -- the standard operating procedure for reacting to a crisis is nothing more than a tall tale. A lie, if you will.
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 01.06.2009 | Politics
The Dallas Morning News reports that President Bush is planning to install a gate limiting public access to his house -- on a public street. Federal m...
AP | BRENDAN FARRINGTON | Posted 01.06.2009 | Politics
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Former Gov. Jeb Bush announced Tuesday that he won't run for the U.S. Senate in 2010 to replace the retiring Mel Martinez, s...
Alan Schram | Posted 01.06.2009 | Business
What should be intuitively clear is that spending is no way to repair our woes. Indeed, spending irresponsibly is exactly what got us in the current lugubrious position.
Bob Franken | Posted 01.06.2009 | Politics
Many of the new people President-elect Obama is nominating to fix the economy are among those responsible for breaking it.
AP | Posted 01.06.2009 | Politics
DALLAS — Donors to President George W. Bush's presidential library probably will remain a mystery, said the foundation overseeing fundraising. ...
Art Levine | Posted 01.06.2009 | Politics
If practically everyone's broke, thousands are killed on the job or can be fired at will, who'll be left to do the spending needed to stimulate the economy?
Moira Whelan | Posted 01.05.2009 | Politics
Taken individually, Iraq, Katrina, Abu Ghraib, or any other Bush failure would be a black mark on this president's legacy. Together, they serve as an indictment of the man who will be remembered as the worst president in US history.
McClatchy | Posted 01.04.2009 | Politics
George W. Bush was supposed to be a president schooled in consensus building and tough, effective management. However, the first chief executive with...
Lloyd Garver | Posted 12.30.2008 | Politics
Things that didn't really happen that long ago seem like they happened ages ago. For example, can you believe that John McCain picked Sarah Palin as his running mate only four months ago?
Ellis Weiner | Posted 12.30.2008 | Politics
That David Addington and John Yoo be kidnapped and water-boarded for video distribution on YouTube, and then released unharmed. Still dripping wet.
Washington Times | Posted 12.30.2008 | Politics
In what would amount to a slap in the face to a sitting Republican president and the party's Senate and House leaders, national GOP officials, includi...
Thinkprogress.org | Posted 12.29.2008 | World
In an effort to "prevent Palestinians from attacking towns in southern Israel with missiles," Israel today undertook its third day of offensive milita...
Peter M. Shane | Posted 12.29.2008 | Politics
With supporters clamoring for the new president to wipe away Bush-era policies with a stroke of a pen, how can the new president wield his own pen without embracing the Bush assault on constitutionalism?
Daniel Kurtzman | Posted 12.27.2008 | Politics
In a story about potential vice presidential picks, the AP referred to Joe Lieberman as "the Democratic vice presidential prick in 2000."
Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 12.26.2008 | Politics
Unlike earlier failed presidents like Herbert Hoover and Richard Nixon, Bush does not seem to acknowledge or even recognize the destruction that he has wrought.
Chris Weigant | Posted 12.26.2008 | Politics
Love her or hate her, you have to admit that John McCain's selection of Sarah Palin for the Republican ticket this year was without any doubt the boldest political tactic of the year.
Justin Callaway | Posted 12.26.2008 | Politics
A proposal: members of Congress must find a family in the "final throes" of foreclosure within their electoral base and switch places with them for the remainder of their luxuriously long winter vacations.
Aram Khayatpour | Posted 12.23.2008 | Media
Alright, what he did was bad. But why is there all this concern over little old Rod Blagojevich while Bush, Cheney, and his cronies still sit in the White House, untouched?
Jeff Danziger | Posted 12.23.2008 | Politics
Robert Creamer | Posted 12.23.2008 | Politics
Republicans will argue that when times are tough you don't increase your spending, you tighten your belt and live within your means. That may be a good idea for an individual. It's a terrible idea for a country.
Chris Weigant | Posted 12.22.2008 | Business
If we're going to minutely examine autoworkers' wages, and dictate the travel plans of one industry we are bailing out, then it seems eminently reasonable to do the same for the banking industry.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 12.22.2008 | Living
On the escaping planes that pinballed from airport to airport across the stormy skies, soldiers and civilians sat side by side and got to know each other over Ritz Chips, salted peanuts and Cokes as they together fought off fatigue.
Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics
During a Fox News segment, Cheney calmly claimed that the president is not bound by law during times of war. Allow that thought to sink in for a moment before continuing your day.
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Michael Shaw | Posted 01.08.2009 | Politics