George W. Bush

Post's Krauthammer Pushes Dangerous Fantasy

Joe Cirincione | Posted 07.10.2009 | World


Joe Cirincione

Krauthammer wants Russia to build more nuclear weapons. Why? Because he thinks we can shoot them out of the sky like clay pigeons. This is simply not true.

Bush Legacy: FP's 5 World Leaders Who Miss George W. Bush

Foreign Policy | Posted 07.10.2009 | World


Barack Obama might still be overwhelmingly popular around the world, but here are five heads of state who probably wish they could have the old guy ba...

Arnold Schwarzenegger: Tea Bagging California

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics


Joseph A. Palermo

The California budget crisis continues to be a showdown between a recalcitrant Executive and a weak-kneed Legislature.

Obama Revives Bush Plan To Seek Out Illegal Workers

The Washington Post | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics


President Obama will abandon a controversial immigration crackdown, sought by his predecessor, to pressure U.S. companies to fire 9 million workers wi...

Honduras as Warning?

Karen Kwiatkowski | Posted 07.09.2009 | World


Karen Kwiatkowski

Somewhere in the world a Constitution is being exercised. God forbid it happen in the United States.

Budget Cuts Cause Cops To Cut W.'s Extra Security

The Dallas Morning News | TANYA EISERER | Posted 07.08.2009 | Politics


The Dallas Police Department has cut back on some of the additional protection that the department provided around the Preston Hollow home of former P...

Obama Does Moscow, and Vice Versa

William Bradley | Posted 07.08.2009 | World


William Bradley

Unlike most of the rest of Europe, Russia is hardly in the grips of Obamamania. He's certainly more popular than George W. Bush or John McCain, but that's damning with faint praise.

MBAs are "a Menace to Society": George Bush and Katherine Weymouth are MBAs

Charles Warner | Posted 07.08.2009 | Business


Charles Warner

As an entitled daughter of a privileged, powerful family, Weymouth, like Bush, did not earn her job on merit, but got it because she is a member of the Luck Sperm Club.

History Has Not Yet Judged Bush

James Denselow | Posted 07.08.2009 | Politics


James Denselow

Certainly Bush's rewriting of his Iraq legacy will be helped by his decision to reverse his earlier policies, abandoning the idealism of the top-down reinvention of Iraq, for reality-based pragmatism.

Alberto Gonzales To Teach At Texas Tech

AP | Posted 07.07.2009 | Politics


LUBBOCK, Texas — Alberto Gonzales, who resigned as U.S. attorney general two years ago, is coming to Texas Tech this fall to teach political sci...

In Dependence Day 2009

Larry Gellman | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics


Larry Gellman

We have never been more reliant on the generosity of others and less able to act like grown-ups and fend for ourselves than any time since the Revolution.

Bush Takes Oklahoma: Six Standing Ovations For Ex-President

AP | MURRAY EVANS | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics


WOODWARD, Okla. — Former President George W. Bush was greeted by thunderous applause on the Fourth of July as he told thousands of spectators in...

$10,000 for Donated Eggs: A Price for Science

Julie Menin | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics


Julie Menin

New York has become the first state to allow public money (in this case up to $10,000) to be offered to women who donate their eggs for stem cell re...

Give Us Your Huddled Masses - But Battered Women Need Not Apply!

William Fisher | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics


William Fisher

Here's a note for the "to do" list of the Obama Administration's newly appointed Domestic Violence Czar - or Czarina in this case: Battered wives and ...

Mark Sanford: When Bullsh**ters See Red...

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics


Mark Goulston, M.D.

When bullsh**ters see red, their common sense is dead. What is it that Mark Sanford, Bill Clinton, John Edwards, Elliott Spitzer AND Bernie Madoff ha...

Sarah, We Hardly Knew Ye. Some Suggested New Jobs For an Ex-Maverick

Andy Ostroy | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics


Andy Ostroy

Happy Birthday America, from soon-to-be ex-Gov. Sarah Palin. She's given you the ultimate gift.

Bush's 4th of July Celebration

John Scripsick | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics


John Scripsick

It's good to see that Woodward, OK invited George W. Bush to their 4th of July celebration. Some days I feel sorry for this poor lonely man. His dre...

Which Politicos Scream For Ice Cream? (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Hilary Moss | Posted 07.03.2009 | Style


Baby, it's hot outside...how are D.C. and the world's finest beating the heat? With ice cream, of course! Whether it's chocolate or vanilla, cones or ...

Think Again: The Strange Politics of Collusion (and "Dickishness")

Eric Alterman | Posted 07.02.2009 | Media


Eric Alterman

Alleged dickishness notwithstanding, the argument between Pitney and Milbank was not nearly as trivial as it might initially appear.

Fourth of July: A Long Road Ahead, But Reason to Celebrate

Clint Wilder | Posted 07.02.2009 | Green


Clint Wilder

I like fireworks as much as anyone, but the whole rah-rah America thing always seemed pretty distasteful when Bush and Cheney were running the show.

The GOP's Palin Food Fight: Why Now?

William Bradley | Posted 07.02.2009 | Politics


William Bradley

This is a fight between some neocons who still want to promote Palin and their discredited geopolitical agenda against some Republican would-be modernizers.

Betraying the Idea of America

Andrew Reinbach | Posted 07.01.2009 | Politics


Andrew Reinbach

This shabby performance is all the more dismaying because abandoning the Bush/Cheney years and all they represent is why Mr. Obama was elected in the first place.

Saddam And Bush Had Same Position On Geneva Convention:

Michaelmoore.com | Posted 07.01.2009 | Politics


Saddam Hussein vs. George W. Bush on the Geneva Conventions FBI Interrogation of Saddam Hussein, March 13, 2004 [...] (S) Regarding limitations pla...

Internal GOP Memo Attacks Bush Handling Of Economy

The Plum Line | Posted 07.01.2009 | Politics


An internal GOP memo prepared to brief some House Republicans as part of an ongoing probe into the Bank of America-Merrill Lynch deal takes direct aim...

Axis of Evil? Not so Much

James Arthur Ray | Posted 06.30.2009 | World


James Arthur Ray

President Bush's January 2002 State of the Union Address, where he coined the term "Axis of Evil" to describe Iraq, Iran and North Korea, was an attempt to fit entire governments, populations and countries into a catchphrase box. Marketing propaganda at its very best.