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SHOCK: Offshore Drilling Decision Seems Unlikely To Result In GOP Support

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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As mentioned before, the conventional wisdom on President Obama's decision to backtrack on his previous support for a moratorium on drilling is that h...

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Former Bush Counselor Dan Bartlett Unloads on Cheney: "Doesn't Do Touchy-Feely" or "Hug Babies"

Murray Waas | Posted 06.15.2011

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Murray Waas

Here is a gem from a still embargoed portion of Washington Post reporter Barton Gelman's book on Cheney: the vice president turned down a request from Bush to take charge of the federal response to Katrina.

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Cheney's "Privileged" Interview Already Leaked By Personal Lawyer

Emptywheel | Posted 05.25.2011

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You know how Obama's DOJ claims that we can't see Cheney's interview with Patrick Fitzgerald because it's privileged? Well, Dick Cheney's lawyer alrea...

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Bill Maher on Barack Obama: "Hoping for a Bit More Audacity."

Scott Mendelson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Scott Mendelson

Just remember... this stuff, it's more important than reelection. Scott Mendelson ...

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Former Bush Aide: 'Mission Accomplished Banner Was My Fault'

CBS | Posted 05.25.2011

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At his news conference yesterday, President Bush said the decision to put a "Mission Accomplished" banner on the aircraft carrier where he gave a spee...

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Katie Couric Jokes: "Dan, Dee-Dee, Sounds Like The Start Of A Neil Sedaka Song" (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Katie Couric added a bit of levity to the serious coverage Tuesday night, joking with CBS analysts Dee Dee Myers and Dan Bartlett during the "CBS Even...

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Former White House Aides Find Pundit Life Stress Free

Washington Post | Michael Abramowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Four years ago this past Thursday, Michael Gerson was holed up in a suite at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City, where a teleprompter had been set u...

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McClellan's Inconvenient Truths: Media And GOP Flacks Pile-On

Beverly Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Beverly Davis

As we are reminded again this week: you don't get in trouble in D.C. for lying, covering up and stonewalling, but you catch hell for telling the truth-- even if it's the least-surprising truth ever.

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Ex-Bush Counselor Dan Bartlett Joins Top PR Firm

Politico | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dan Bartlett, former counselor to President Bush, plans to announce Monday that he is moving to Texas to join Public Strategies Inc., one of the natio...

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Fmr Bush Adviser Slams '08 GOP Field

Washington Post | Peter Baker | Posted 05.25.2011

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One of President Bush's closest advisers has a brutally candid analysis of the Republican nomination battle: Fred Thompson is the campaign's "biggest ...

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