George W Bush

The Party's Over

Steven Weber | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics


Steven Weber

Even when the zany Republicans are all expelled to Dubai or Fox News or wherever the heck rascals and rogues congregate, there will still be the mother of all hangovers to contend with.

$4 Gallon Gasoline: Who Would've Thunk It?

A. Siegel | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics


A. Siegel

Just back in February, Peter Maer of CBS Radio asked Bush about the potential for $4/gallon gasoline. Response: Near blank stare with seeming confusion.

Dennis Kucinich's Impeachment Resolution Could Be Helpful in a Future War Crimes Trial

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics


Joseph A. Palermo

Bush has embarked on his "Farewell Tour" of European capitals. But if he travels abroad when he is no longer president, he stands a good chance of being detained and charged with war crimes.

Bush Tells UK Paper He Regrets His Image As A War Monger

Times Of London | Tom Baldwin and Gerard Baker | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics


President Bush has admitted to The Times that his gun-slinging rhetoric made the world believe that he was a "guy really anxious for war" in Iraq. He ...

Kucinich Too Boring? Steve Jobs Presents iPeachment 08!

Lee Stranahan | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics


Lee Stranahan

Yes, you pointed out all the ways that the Bush administration has trampled on the constitution but where's the sizzle, Dennis?

Mr. Russert, Will You Ante Up For War Victims Like You Asked Of Scott McClellan?

Linda Milazzo | Posted 06.10.2008 | Media


Linda Milazzo

Meet The Press provided a national platform for the Bush administration to push its war with minimal challenge from Tim Russert.

Europe Has Given Up On Getting Bush To Cut Emissions

Reuters | Jeremy Pelofsky and Zoran Radosavljevic | Posted 06.10.2008 | Green


BRDO, Slovenia (Reuters) - President George W. Bush opened a farewell European summit on Tuesday, aiming to work with allies to increase pressure on I...

Europe Has Given Up On Getting Bush To Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Reuters | Jeremy Pelofsky and Zoran Radosavljevic | Posted 06.10.2008 | Green


BRDO, Slovenia (Reuters) - President George W. Bush opened a farewell European summit on Tuesday, aiming to work with allies to increase pressure on I...

Dennis Kucinich Makes History Again -- Impeach Bush!

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics


Joseph A. Palermo

Kucinich made clear that Bush has violated his oath of office and his Constitutional duty that the laws be "faithfully executed."

John McCain And Iraq -- A George W. Bush Clone

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 06.09.2008 | Politics


Joseph A. Palermo

"I will never surrender, my friends," McCain recently promised a Republican gathering. Surrender to whom? He does not explain.

Rebranding Republicans: McCain's Conundrum

William Bradley | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics


William Bradley

A day spent recently following McCain around California points up how difficult a task he has in store. And how short he remains of the mark on "rebranding" a Republican Party.

Karl Rove and Katrina

John McQuaid | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics


John McQuaid

How did a political consultant whose principal skill was tactical come to control the levers of government, something which he clearly neither understood nor cared much about?

Don't Take Anything Otherwise for Granted

Bob Ostertag | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics


Bob Ostertag

In 2008, the fact that Reagan was president and redrew the US political map is such a salient feature of American history that it is difficult to remember how unthinkable it was at the time.

"American Idol" Producer: We Didn't Want Bush On "Idol Gives Back"

OK! | Posted 06.05.2008 | Entertainment


OK! Magazine talked to "American Idol" mastermind Nigel Lythgoe. Buried in a piece about how this season's winner David Cook needs more personality wa...

America's 40 Years War at an End

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics


Robert S. McElvaine

RFK and Barack Obama may come to be seen as the bookends of the second American civil war, a war that has divided the nation and been a dominant force in our politics for four decades.

Bush Attends Groundbreaking For $100M Earmark

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics


WASHINGTON — President Bush is on a crusade against lawmakers' pet projects, but on Thursday he plans to attend a groundbreaking ceremony for a ...

When Ex-Staffers Rat You Out

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 06.04.2008 | Business


<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

Two events in the media happened recently that gave me, as a manager of other people, a cold shudder down the back of what's left of my spine.

Senator Sam's Challenge to Presidential Power

Julian E. Zelizer and Bruce Schulman | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics


Julian E. Zelizer and Bruce Schulman

We seem to be back to the summer of 1973, although in some respects Bush's extension of executive power has been much more dramatic than anything in that period.

The Lost-Cause/Please Get Lost Hall of Fame

Jonathan Leigh Solomon | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics


Jonathan Leigh Solomon

With Hillary Clinton still "not making any decisions," she now joins a select group of causes and phenomena that just won't go away, no matter how much you wish they would.

Change

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics


Joseph A. Palermo

Whoever inside the Obama campaign came up with the idea of bringing his most important rally to the very spot where the Republicans will hold their canned convention this September deserves a promotion. Now that's the Audacity of Hope!

Iran Leader: Bush Acts Like Someone Who Is Menatally Ill

Jpost.com | AP | Posted 06.03.2008 | Home


US President George W. Bush and his advisors act like mentally ill people, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Tuesday. "Look at behavi...

John McBush

Will Durst | Posted 06.03.2008 | Politics


Will Durst

Even though the two get along like a cobra and a mongoose, Mr. McCain is really broke and must suck at George Bush's silicone-enhanced money tit.

Bush Would Veto Climate Security Act

Reuters | Deborah Zabarenko | Posted 06.02.2008 | Green


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Even before debate began on Monday on the first comprehensive climate change bill to reach the U.S. Senate floor, the White Hou...

The Loss of Democracy: The Deeper Meaning of McClellan's Revelations of Imperial Deceit & Media Submissiveness

Dan Kovalik | Posted 06.02.2008 | Politics


Dan Kovalik

The result of the White House spin, and the complicity of the press corp. in it, has been the deaths of more than 4,000 U.S. servicemen and women and tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians.

Politics on the Couch: Projection

Justin Frank | Posted 06.02.2008 | Politics


Justin Frank

This is the first chapter for the interactive book, Politics on the Couch. What projections have you noticed in the candidates, the media, and in yourselves?