George W. Bush

By John Why is it, though, that while conservatives outnumber liberals by anywhere from one and a half to two to one, depending on the poll, there are significantly more Democrats than Republicans? There are a number of answers, but one of them is that conservatives, as a group, are insufficient...

By Chris Ames The Iraq inquiry committee can be in no doubt. Bush wanted regime change, he got it. But did he do a deal with Blair in 2002? You never know. He might just admit it. We'll hear no more about intelligence failures and weapons of mass destruction.

By Rick Former President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, visited wounded soldiers and their families near the site of the worst mass shooting on an Army post in the United States. The Bushes made their private visit to Fort Hood's Darnall Army Medical Center on Friday night. Bush spokesman David...

By webmaster@nationalreview.com (Kathryn Jean Lopez) visited Fort Hood families last night: FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) ― Former President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, visited wounded soldiers and their families near the site of the worst mass shooting on an Army post in the United States.

I find that absolutely abhorrent,' former vice president says Former Vice President [sic] Dick Cheney held back no criticism Thursday of President Barack Obama, strongly questioning the administration's policy in Afghanistan and its approach to combating terrorism. Cheney, speak...

By The Huffington Post News Team Over at Foreign Policy's blog, Joshua Keating reports that President George W. Bush was in Japan yesterday, throwing out the first pitch at game three of Japan's World Series and doing what he could to finally teach the Japanese to GET MOTIVATED! Along the way, he addressed a group of stude...

By Noel Sheppard In a classic example of the liberal double standard, Dowd didn't have any problem whatsoever spewing invective of her own. Better still, in a piece about America's leading conservative talk radio host, Dowd felt the need to also attack George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Sarah Palin, and Liz Chen...

By The Huffington Post News Team Recently declassified documents on the Bush administration interrogation program describe several techniques used on detainees in US custody, some of which may have violated the United Nations Convention Against Torture, to which the United States is a signatory.

By BarbinMD It turns out that Dick Cheney took away the "I don't recall" title from Alberto Gonzales during Cheney's interview with the FBI over his role in the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame. According to a summary of the FBI’s interview with Dick Cheney regarding the Valerie Plame CIA leak scandal...

By Martin Lewis It is totally outrageous that a former US Attorney knows so little about the law that he thinks he can rip off people. On the other hand -- another of Bush's legal appointees was Alberto Gonzales and he didn't seem to know much about the law either...," Jones said.

By Paul Bush, though, didn't publicly blame Bill Clinton for this parlous state of affairs. Instead, he supported the government of Israel in its eventually successful efforts to end the Palestinian terror campaign. President Obama doesn't understand much when it comes to foreign policy. Howe...

By Clay Waters Another great conservative philosopher I write about is James Burnham, another mentor to Buckley. And he was one of the first strong critics of what he saw as, called it "Caesarism," the presidency that grows so overweening in its power that it violates the strength of the other branches. I...

By Paul It's easy to criticize obscure White House staffers who write kiss-and-tell books. But depending on how the book is executed, and assuming the administration is no longer in power, these books can be worthwhile. I recall reading two of them after George H.W. Bush left office, including one b...

And finally: It may not be surprising to most people that President Bush was a “Jack Bauer kind of guy.” The UK Daily Express reveals that a few years ago when Bush ran into Carlos Bernard, one of the stars of the show “24,” Bush was dying to know if Bernard’s character, Tony Almeida, was a goner....

By Paul Matt Latimer was deputy director of speechwriting for President George W. Bush during the latter part of his presidency. Before that, Matt was the principal speechwriter for Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld. It's time for conservatives to see what has happened there, so we can get to the work...

By Brad Wilmouth So the narrative arc goes, right on through the actual egregious non‑news from Roger Ailes` Fox News. Aides of President Obama this weekend expanding on comments by White House Communications Director Anita Dunn that Fox News basically acts as a wing of the Republican party.

By E.H.H. Dubious Morris claim: 1/5 of "Americans" watch Fox News every night Dubious Morris claim: "One out of every five Americans watches Fox News every single night." From Hannity: MORRIS: One out of every five Americans watches Fox News every single night.

By Meteor Blades Ending the Bush Doctrine and the associated policy spin-offs, would not, of course, mean an end to all the perniciousness of American exceptionalism. But it would be a major step in the right direction. Although it would elicit an extended round of shrieks against Obama from the crowd whic...

By David Swanson Perhaps presidents simply cannot be expected to give back powers gained by the executive branch, but shouldn't we expect Congress to work to take them back on our behalf? When Alberto Gonzales resigned as attorney general, he did so because a rapidly growing list of members of Congress s...

By James Warren Most of his case involves national defense and he concedes, "It should come as no surprise that turning around the huge secret empire built by the National Security State is a hard, perhaps impossible, task." In sum, he argues that Obama will become a prisoner of the national security pris...

By John McQuaid The George W. Bush presidency brought both the Republican Party and the conservative movement low, and it's distressing to watch the GOP base get whipped... The George W. Bush presidency brought both the Republican Party and the conservative movement low, and it's distressing to watch the G...

By Jeff Schweitzer George W. Bush often used the setting of elementary schools to give speeches to promote his “No Child Left Behind” program.  He also called for kinds to take specific actions, a plea that has conservative knickers twisted in a knot when coming from Obama.  Specifically, GW called on every Am...

By Joseph A. Palermo Finally, Attorney General John Ashcroft has some explaining to do to Congress. Ashcroft testified to Congress that waterboarding was performed only a few times. The report states: "The Attorney General was informed the waterboard had been used 119 times on a single individual." (p. 45)

By Andy Ostroy And now the hypocritical Republican crybabies at Fox are outraged over a heated exchange last Thursday between President Barack Obama's press secretary Robert Gibbs and their White House correspondent, Major Garrett, over unsolicited emails allegedly being sent out by the White Ho...

By The Huffington Post News Editors For example, in August 2004, then-Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge raised the alert level to orange, the second-highest level signifying a high risk of attack, in Washington, New York City and Newark, N.J., because of potential threats to financial buildings there. But Democrats q...

By Max Twain Jeb Bush, the son of President George H.W. Bush and brother of President George W. Bush, comes out swinging at President Obama and his policies in next months edition of Esquire.  The former Florida governor, who left office with sky high approval numbers, rips the Democrats for their poor id...

Also, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford’s disappearance was weird. There’s really no other word for it (but good news, he’s returning tomorrow). Here’s Jim Geraghty’s take on National Review Online: “For now, this is a p.r. disaster; imagine if the equivalent of yesterday’s train crash had o...

By Scott Whitlock At this point, Sawyer engaged in some belated bashing of George W. Bush. In an allusion to the banner above President Bush during his 2003 visit to an aircraft carrier, the host held up a sign that read "mission accomplished." She joked, "And dare I say- I had this sign made just for you. Dare they...

By Warner Todd Huston On CNN's State of the Union with host John King, David Axelrod scolded Dick Cheney for not behaving like a "statesman" over the former vp's statements that the country is becoming less safe because of Obama's policies. Axelrod on John King

By Matthew Balan Sanchez made the comment during a segment with comedian Carlos Mencia. He asked Mencia if he had heard of the Obama/Teleprompter humor coming from conservatives: “Hey, have you heard what’s going -- you know, the far right this week has been saying that President Obama is too stupid to tal...

By mcjoan It's been a while since we checked in on the Bush midnight regulations flurry. As a reminder, in the waning days of Republican rule in the White House, there was a concerted effort to inflict as much damage as possible in key, hot-button political issue areas. For example:

By David Neiwert Laura Ingraham didn't like President Obama's speech to Congress the other night. What apparently got her goat the most, judging by her carping on Bill O'Reilly's show last night, was what she calls "the immature and rather unbecoming Bush-bashing" -- even though she acknowledges that B...

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By Scott Whitlock ABC ANNOUNCER: This is a special edition of 'Good Morning America.' The second inauguration of George W. Bush. Live from the Library of Congress, in Washington D.C., Charles Gibson, Diane Sawyer and Peter Jennings. GMA OBAMA: Change has come to America.

By Tom Engelhardt Ever since, presidents have regularly preached strength beyond compare, threatened potential enemies, and hit the call notes of an ever more imperial presidency. Underneath the often dull words of modern inaugurals lies a distinct hubris, an emphasis on the potential limitlessness...

By Jason Notte After nearly a decade, it's nice to see that Americans can petition their president again. If anyone is worried about Barack Obama's presidency bearing any resemblance whatsoever to George W. Bush's, the last few weeks should put your mind at ease.

By Heather Brody: Alright let's move on to President Bush, his legacy. He's on the magical mystery tour now, whatever he's doing and do you get a sense Steve, what is this going to be like exactly for George Bush? How will he be remembered? Is this going to be a Harry Truman type situation where he wasn't l...

By Scott Whitlock SCARBOROUGH: The overwhelming majority of intelligence operations across the globe, did they not say Saddam has weapons of mass destruction? SCARBOROUGH: What does a president of the United States do? Point to the CIA director and 'Say, sit down. You're wrong, I don't trust you'?

In 2004, President Bush was re-elected with 286 electoral votes, defeating Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) by 3.3 million votes -- the smallest popular-vote margin since 1976 (excluding the 2000 election) and the lowest electoral vote count for an incumbent president's re-election since Woodr...

By Matthew Balan Earlier in the interview, which began 26 minutes into the 7 pm hour of the CNN program, Phillips asked Giuliani, "[Y]ou’ve got Republicans, leading Republicans in the party saying McCain has got to disassociate himself from President Bush. President Bush has ruined the image of the Repu...

By Justin McCarthy BEHAR: What about global warming and climate change? BEHAR: And she is not in the Bush administration. The Bush administration is out there talking to North Korea, talking to Syria. Also- BEHAR: What about global warming and climate change?

By Matthew Sheffield Given his penchant for comparing Republicans to Hitler, using such phrases as "slinging crap," and stating that the Bush presidency "has now devolved into a criminal conspiracy to cover the ass of George W. Bush," you would think that Keith Olbermann, the buffoonish left-wing sportsca...

By Brent Baker My January 15 NewsBusters item, “Schieffer: Republicans Anti-McCain Because He Challenges Authority,” recounted:Asked by Katie Couric Tuesday night [January 15] why having Republicans dominate the Michigan GOP primary, as opposed to independents and Democrats, is bad for John M...

By Rich Noyes Exactly 20 years ago tonight, January 25, 1988, millions of Americans saw one newsman’s liberal agenda laid bare, as CBS anchor Dan Rather attempted to ambush then-Vice President George H.W. Bush, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, in a live TV on his CBS Evenin...

By Jason Horowitz Representatives of the New York Times, the New York Post, the Daily News, and The New York Sun were all removed or barred entry. (Later, a Manhattan Institute representative said that Wall Street Journal columnist John Fund and two Economist correspondents, who were all well dressed, le...

By kevin@aylwardfamily.com (Wizbang) I have no love for the only Muslim Congressman in the House of Representatives, Keith Ellison, D from MN. As Redstate noticed in a post entitled,A hateful circus in the House Judiciary Committee I have no love for the only Muslim Congressman in the House of Representatives, Keith Ellison,...

By Shaun Manley But, cooler heads are prevailing, as Democrats are saying they don't want to move too quickly to change the law because civil liberties are on the chopping block. Also, Democrats don't want to give Bush the ultimate power to spy on people.

By Matt Finley Iraq Did you know Bush turned the White House Green when he moved in? Solar Panels, you know, eco-friendly stuff. Gore was there for 8 years, what did he do to make the White House use less energy? I have stacks of pages of stuff. Empty pages. He didn't do squat. Then compare Bush and Gore's homes. Bu...

WASHINGTON : President George W. Bush rushed Saturday to patch up a sudden rift with his most faithful Republican allies, who have supported him on Iraq but have now revolted against a White House-backed immigration reform proposal.

AFP - President George W. Bush rushed Saturday to patch up a sudden rift with his most faithful Republican allies, who have supported him on Iraq but have now revolted against a White House-backed immigration reform proposal.