Burning Bush

Powell clearly believes that many such sacrifices in Iraq were avoidable. As he writes, "We must exhaustively explore other possible solutions before we make the choice of war," but alas, he points out, President George W. Bush "crossed the line ...  

COLLEGE STATION, Tex., May 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The governing board of the George Bush Presidential Library Foundation today announced the appointment of one of its members, Frederick D. McClure, to succeed Ambassador Roman Popadiuk who is retiring as executive director...  

In an interview on CBS's ''Face the Nation'', former Vice President Dick Cheney acknowledges that President Bush knew of the torture program as performed under his administration. However, he again says that in his view the practices employed by the US on enemy detainees did not constitute torture . He also reiterates earlier claims that by dismantling Bush-era policies on torture and warrantless wiretapping, the Obama administration is making...  

George W. Bush returns to the White House next week. In fact, the 43rd president and his first lady, Laura Bush, will be the guests of honor Thursday as President Obama unveils their formal White House portraits. It's a traditional ceremony, and this one ...  

Former attorney general and George W. Bush lackey Alberto Gonzales is a total hack of a lawyer, but even he won't call the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional. QUESTION: Some on the right are now saying they are concerned that Chief Justice ...  

In late 2008, as the nation’s entire financial system stood on the verge of collapse, Democrats and Republicans came together to pass the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act. President George W. Bush signed the bill, bailing out Wall Street banks who were up to their metaphorical noses in toxic assets. Former Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-NE), then [...]  

Alberto Gonzales knows something about distorting the law. As George W. Bush’s White House Counsel, he called the Geneva Convention’s protections for wartime prisoners “quaint” and played a key role in authorizing the Bush Administration ...  

Way back in 2004 Dick Cheney advised Senator Pat Leahy that he could "go f*** yourself".  I'd like to second the motion:You can tell the Supreme Court is getting closer to its historic ObamaCare ruling because the left is making one last attempt to intimidate the Justices. The latest effort includes taunting Chief Justice John Roberts that if the Court overturns any of the law, he'll forever be defined as a partisan "activist."Senate Judiciary...  

Ladies and gentlemen we have a guy sitting in the White House who has mis-placed Hawaii, claimed to have visited all 57 states and thinks the U.S. Navy has CORPSEMEN. This cocaine-snorting, average student from Occidental College was admitted to Columbia College and I have always wondered how? Here is some insight to the 1981 class that hussein transferred into: The transfer class that entered Columbia College in the fall of 1981 with...  

People, the presidential election is November 6, 2012. It might sound like a lot of time between now and then, but the Wall Street Journal wants to make sure its man—former Massachusetts Governor, lover of women who stay home with the kids and presumptive Republican candidate, Mitt Romney—is armed with all the advice he needs. So in today's Wall Street Journal, there's an editorial giving him advice on how to differentiate himself from...  

Re "Anti-Obama ad turns down the heat" (Page A1, May 22): George W. Bush managed to blow through the largest budget surplus ($123 billion) in U.S. history and put us deep in debt by handing out two unpaid-for tax cuts and an unpaid for Medicare ...  

Former Bush administration Secretary of State Colin Powell writes in a forthcoming book that Pres. George W. Bush’s top security advisers never met to discuss the invasion of Iraq, according to a review of the book on the Huffington Post. Powell wrote that when he delivered his “infamous” speech to the United Nations in early [...]  

Harvard Institute of Politics’ polling director John Della Volpe believes Rove could repeat his success in micro-targeting, his specialty as George W. Bush’s campaign strategist. “Rove caught a lot of people by surprise,” he says.  

WASHINGTON -- Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales -- who was the first person of Hispanic descent to hold that position and a lightning rod for controversy as President George W. Bush's chief legal adviser on the war on terror -- warned his fellow Republicans Thursday that the issue of immigration could be their third rail in November."As a Republican, I am saying that the way Republicans have talked about this issue has been harmful to...  

While much is being made of the attorneys' performances during the Supreme Court's hearing this week on health care reform, it won't matter much to the justices presiding over the case, said former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. The justices "pretty much have their minds made up" coming in, said Gonzales, who was appointed as the 80th U.S. Attorney General by President George W. Bush in February 2005 and served until September 2007...  

George Bush, the President of the United States has made a speech regarding Iraq and the "global war on terror." Bush claimed that the war in Iraq had been successful. He said that "removing Saddam Hussein from power was the right decision -- and this is a ...  

Alexander in the Digital Journal, she says "An international tribunal has found former US President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld guilty of the crime of conspiracy to allow torture in Guantanamo Bay ...  

The New York Times revealed in 2005 that President George W. Bush had approved an extensive program of "warrantless wiretapping" to intercept international phone conversations and emails that began or terminated in the U.S., in order to monitor potential plots.  

After helping former Vice President Dick Cheney hold on to the nation’s second-highest office, Wade Eyerly decided he was ready to skip the hassle of one of the George W. Bush administration’s lasting legacies: the Transportation Security Administration’s enhanced security measures.Eyerly, who worked on Cheney’s advance team during the race against Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), claimed to fly about 27 days of each month during the 2004 campaign...  

Former U.S. President George W Bush, his Vice-President Dick Cheney and 6 other ... Among the evidence, Briton Moazzam Begg, an ex-Guantanamo detainee, said he was beaten, put in a hood and left in solitary confinement. Iraqi woman Jameelah Abbas Hameedi ...  

An ad-hoc tribunal in Malaysia has found former President George W. Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney and six other members of their administration guilty of war crimes. A panel of five judges heard testimony from victims who were tortured ...  

Dana Perino, in her days as George W. Bush's mouthpiece (White House photo) Former George W. Bush press secretary and current Fox News personality Dana Perino explains why the Paycheck Fairness Act, rather than leveling the playing field for women currently facing wage discrimination, is all a big distraction as politics and as policy: Well that it's just yet another distraction of dealing with the bigger, major financial issues that this...  

Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies was co-founded by Karl Rove, the former senior advisor to former President George W. Bush, and was viewed as having played a major role in helping Republicans gain big victories nationally in the 2010 elections.  

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell supports same-sex marriage — and he doesn’t necessarily believe the issue should be left up to states. “I have no problems with it,” Powell, who served under George W. Bush, says in an interview ...  

Oh, if only it were the Hague. Or better yet, the U.S. Supreme Court. I guess it’s a start, though. Via Common Dreams: Former President George W Bush, his vice president, Dick Cheney, and six other members of his administration have been found guilty of war crimes by a tribunal in Malaysia. Bush, Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and five of their legal advisers were tried in their absence and convicted on Saturday. Victims of...  

Colin L. Powell served as the Secretary of State under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005.Chaos in BaghdadOn the evening of Aug. 5, 2002, President Bush and I met in his residence at the White House to discuss the pros and cons of the Iraq crisis. Momentum within the administration was building toward military action, and the president was increasingly inclined in that direction.I had no doubt that our military would easily crush a...  

Former US President George W Bush, his Vice-President Dick Cheney and six other members of his administration have been found guilty of war crimes by a tribunal in Malaysia. Victims of torture told a panel of five judges in Kuala Lumpur of their ...  

WASHINGTON, April 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Dick Cheney, Former Vice President of the United States during the 2001 - 2009 George W. Bush administration, spoke to a group of 425 students from nearly 200 universities interning in the nation's capital today. The students,...  

The group, co-founded by Karl Rove, the former senior advisor to former President George W. Bush, plans to spend $535,000 ... a few days after Democratic former U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter last Friday called on Republican Rep.  

As part of its project on how to achieve 4% real growth for the U.S. economy, the George W. Bush Institute produced a conference in April on the subject of taxation. FORBES was the media partner. President Bush gave us his first formal interview ...  

By Jeff Cox, CNBC.com Senior Writer NEW YORK (CNBC) -- Put a room full of hedge fund pros together to talk politics and chances are pretty good that it's going to be more fun to be Karl Rove than Robert Gibbs. So it went Thursday morning when Rove, the top adviser to former President George W. Bush, and Gibbs, a top-level campaign guru and former White House press secretary for President Obama, squared off at the SALT conference. The few...  

An unanimous guilty verdict was handed down by a five-panel tribunal in Malaysia on Friday, convicting in absentia that Former President George W. Bush, Former Vice-President Dick Cheney, Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Former ...  

Just trying to understand here. For those wondering, This infowars article, RP himself said that President Bush Should be impeached for "Not under the umbrella for partisan vengeance for but ceaselesslly breaking the laws of the land". http://www.infowars.com/articles/bush/impeach_bush_over_north_american_union_agenda_ron_paul.htm Dennis Kucinich-D introduced 35 articles of impeachment against Bush at the time. http://www.dailypaul.com/51920...  

Camp David through the yearsWashington PostSeated across the table from right, are Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Attorney General John Ashcroft, Cheney's Chief of Staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, and White House General Counsel Alberto R. Gonzales. J. Scott Applewhite / AP This photo ...  

Mr Bush built his entire case for war on the claim that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. However, he chose to ignore conflicting evidence and forever undermined not only his presidency, but the reputation of US intelligence agencies ...  

Former Vice President Dick Cheney, 71, has received a new heart, The New York Times reports. Mr. Cheney is best known to the American public for usurping the power of the presidency from his alleged boss, George W. Bush; pushing the country to war on false pretenses; and shooting an old man in the face. [...]  

Former Vice-President Dick Cheney, who suffered the first of five heart attacks at the age of 37 and in 2010 was implanted with a device to assist his heart with pumping blood, underwent a heart transplant today at a hospital in Virginia: Former President Dick Cheney received a heart transplant on Saturday, his office announced. [...]  

who served as Secretary of State under President George W. Bush made headlines four years ago when he endorsed Barack Obama for president. During an interview on "Today," Powell says he's not quite ready to throw his support behind anyone yet."  

Kuala Lumpur - It's official; George W Bush is a war criminal. In what is the first ever conviction of its kind anywhere in the world, the former US President and seven key members of his administration were yesterday (Fri) found guilty of war crimes. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and their legal advisers Alberto Gonzales, David Addington, William Haynes, Jay Bybee and John Yoo were tried in absentia in Malaysia. The trial held in...  

The George W. Bush Administration was set on going to war with Iraq even before  Colin Powell made his infamous 2003 weapons of mass destruction pitch to the United Nations, writes the former Secretary of State in his new book, "It Worked For Me: In Life and Leadership." It might be Powell's biggest revelation in [...]  

Washington, March 25 (IANS) Former US vice president Dick Cheney had a heart transplant surgery, his office said Saturday. The 71-year-old had surgery at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Virginia, Xinhua quoted a statement from his office as saying. He had been on the cardiac transplant list for more than 20 months, it [...]  

WASHINGTON — Former President George W. Bush is returning to the White House on May 31 for the unveiling of his official portrait. A White House senior official says Bush and former first lady Laura Bush will return later this month for the release of ...  

On April 26-28, 2012, twenty servicemen and women wounded in Iraq or Afghanistan joined President George W. Bush for a 100 kilometer mountain bike ride in Palo Duro Canyon State Park. As part of the George W. Bush Presidential Center’s Military Service Initiative, the W100 highlights the bravery and sacrifice of the warriors wounded in the global war on terror, as well as those organizations that have made continuing commitments to supporting...  

By: Stephanie Haven Tufts Republicans and the Young American’s Foundation last night hosted Karl Rove, who was senior advisor and deputy chief of staff to President George W. Bush, in Cohen Auditorium. Before his lecture, Rove talked with The Tufts Daily about his experie...  

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) files a lawsuit against the National Security Agency (NSA), President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, former Attorney General and White House counsel Alberto Gonzales, former Cheney chief of staff David Addington, and other members of the Bush administration. The EFF claims the lawsuit is "on behalf of AT customers to stop the illegal unconstitutional and ongoing dragnet surveillance of their...  

Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and their legal advisers Alberto Gonzales, David Addington, William Haynes, Jay Bybee and John Yoo were tried in absentia in Malaysia ... the news (with hefty chunks of gossip and hot air speculation thrown in to pad ...  

By Dalton Karwacki The presidential election this November will be extremely close, but there is a clear strategy for a Republican victory, according to Republican strategist Karl Rove. Rove served as senior advisor to President George W. Bush from 2000 to 2007 and deputy chief of staff from 2004 to 2007. During this time, he  

Why not just come out right now and throw your weight behind somebody ... who served as secretary of state under President George W. Bush, made some headlines four years ago when he endorsed Barack Obama for president. He's out with a brand ...  

Bush's father, George H.W. Bush, endorsed Romney little more than a week later ... During his convention speech in 2008, McCain spoke the Bush name only once — in reference to Laura Bush. Associated Press Deputy Director of Polling Jennifer ...  

Somewhere, Reagan must be going, "Say what?"President Obama tried to make the argument today that he’s the real small-government leader, not Reagan and other Republicans.“After there was a recession under Ronald Reagan, government employment went way up,” Obama said at a college in Albany, N.Y. “It went up after the recessions under the first George Bush and the second George Bush. So each time there was a recession with a Republican president...  

I can say that I’ve met Karl Rove, the man who George W. Bush said orchestrated his campaign for re-election in 2004 and who served as his chief of staff for almost his entire stay in the White House. I did not shake his hand, however, and that may have more to do with my  

At a speech last night at St. John's University in Collegeville, Karl Rove said Mitt Romney is close to securing the party's nomination for president.The Republican national strategist and former President George W. Bush aide said Republican contests on April 3 in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Wisconsin could signal Romney is reaching "the beginning of the end" of his push for the nomination, Rove said, according to the St. Cloud...  

President Obama tried to make the argument today that he’s the real small-government leader, not Reagan and other Republicans. “After there was a recession under Ronald Reagan, government employment went way up,” Obama said at a college in Albany, N.Y. “It went up after the recessions under the first George Bush and the second George Bush. So each time there was a recession with a Republican president, compensated — we compensated by making...  

A conservative group linked to President George W. Bush's former adviser Karl Rove is launching a massive ad buy across 10 battleground states accusing President Obama of broken promises when it comes to jobs, the economy and cutting the deficit.  

Democrats in Congress during the Iraq WMD business were duped by the Bush/Cheney lies into supporting the war. And where has President Obama shown contempt for the Constitution? And while we are on the subject of the Constitution, where were YOU when the Bush/Cheney Patriot Act raped the Constitution? And where were you when Bush ruined our economy with deregulation and wild spending? Oh, you were what? Hiding? You guys just crack me...  

By Dalton Karwacki November’s presidential election will be extremely close, but the Republicans have a clear path to victory, Republican strategist Karl Rove said to a crowd of students, faculty and community members in the BLC Theater and Cavalla Room Monday night. Rove was a senior advisor to President George W. Bush from 2000 to  

Of course, we don't punish the executive branch for fabricating reasons to invade a sovereign nation. And we certainly should look the other way about icky things like torture, because complaining about it would be downright un-American. And wiretapping—well, we've all gotten used to that by now, so what's the big deal? Plus, it would be too partisan to actually hold them accountable when we've got all those...  

And in the case of George W. Bush, it is also a way to post cat pictures on the internet. Just posted yesterday on the website of the George W. Bush presidential library is this gorgeous photo of Bob, a cat that was found on the ...  

WASHINGTON — For a man who has long battled advanced heart disease, Dick Cheney has had a remarkable streak of being in the right place at the right time. Now 71, the former vice president has survived five heart attacks, the first of them at the age of 37. Even before he received a heart transplant a month ago today, Mr. Cheney had benefited from just about every procedure, technology and class of drug available to people with his condition...  

Former President George W. Bush - a day after telling a Washington audience that ... The movie screening also featured a panel discussion with former first lady Laura Bush and former Dallas Morning News editorial page editor Rena Pederson, who has traveled ...  

Reuters reports today that a nearly three-year long investigation by the Senate Intelligence Committee has found little or no evidence that "enhanced interrogation" techniques yielded any valuable intelligence, or led to counter-terrorism breakthroughs. People familiar with the inquiry said committee investigators, who have been poring over records from the administration of President George W. Bush, believe they do not substantiate claims...  

Richard Clarke, a former cybersecurity and cyberterrorism advisor for the White House, was a U.S. government employee for 30 years: between 1973 and 2003. He worked during the times of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and even George W. Bush.  Clarke now wants to warn us, urgently, that we are being failed again, being left defenseless against a cyberattack that could bring down our nation’s entire electronic infrastructure...  

FORMER US President George W Bush and seven key members of his team have been found guilty of war crimes by a tribunal in Malaysia. Bush, his Vice-President Dick Cheney, Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and five of their legal advisers were tried in their ...  

Radio Curious speaks with Elizabeth Holtzman, a former congresswoman, former District Attorney of Brooklyn, New York and author of Cheating Justice: How Bush and Cheney Attacked the Rule of Law and Plotted to Avoid Prosecution and What we can do About it.  

"The president's chief of staff and former budget director, Joshua Bolten, followed up with a trip to the Capitol where he was promised by the leadership that the veto won't be needed -- and that the bill will comply," says the Wall Street Journal.  

Former President George W. Bush was in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday for a "Celebration of Freedom" at the George W. Bush Presidential Center. Mr. Bush joked it's good to come back, but only on occasion.  

No formal George W. Bush presidential endorsement? Again? Whenever anyone tells me that George W. Bush was such a great president, I always reply with this question: Then why isn't anyone clamoring for his endorsement? It happened in 2008, and ...  

The reason U.S. troops tracked down Osama bin Laden one year ago today is because of interrogation techniques from the era of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. Had President Barack Obama’s interrogation policies been ...  

George Bush Jr. and several of his former administration members were convicted of war crimes in Malaysia.Contributor: Richard ContrerasPublished: May 15, 2012  

In Kuala Lumpur, a War crimes Tribunal has heard evidence from former detainees in Iraq and Guantanemo Bay, of torture methods used by US soldiers. On ‘trial’ former U.S. President George W. Bush, former VP Dick Cheney and former defense secretary ...  

Case in point: President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. Bush emerged last week from his self-imposed exile to speak at a conference in New York for the George W. Bush Presidential Center’s conference on “Tax Policies For 4% Growth.”  

George W. Bush talked faith, not politics, at a dinner Friday night for a Christian ministry based in Montana, the Billings Gazette reported. From the story: The former president drew applause repeatedly as he discussed his religious faith and his belief in freedom as a universal value. He praised the push for democracy in the Middle East, saying he and wife Laura Bush have been working to ...  

Karl Rove, the architect of President George W. Bush's 2000 and 2004 campaigns, sees a path for Mitt Romney through two nettlesome problems: his relations with Hispanic voters and his narrow map to victory in November's election. Rove told guests at a Wall ...  

Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi (; born March 26 ... while the Democrats would conduct vigorous oversight of Bush administration policy, an impeachment investigation was "off the table". (A week earlier, she had told the Washington Post ...  

(Newser) – From now until August, pundits will be speculating about Mitt Romney's VP choice, and poring over the political benefits of each candidate. Karl Rove thinks Romney should ignore all of that and choose, as George W. Bush did, the ...  

As a principled Ronald Reagan conservative, McDonald left the Republican Party in disgust when George W. Bush abandoned the conservative principles he ran on. McDonald was alarmed when George W. Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act (2001), Medicare ...  

WASHINGTON — As President George W. Bush quietly returned to Washington today, he brought along a slew of global democracy activists known mostly for never being quiet. Today’s line-up at the George W. Bush Presidential Center sponsored ...  

The Senate may vote on its verdict on the impeachment of Chief Justice Renato Corona by Monday, May 28, Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile said. "We expect to vote the earliest this Monday," Enrile said in an ambush interview with reporters on Tuesday.  

Do they have good judgment? Can they be counted on to give their unvarnished opinion? Are they loyal? Who can best help the president govern? In other words, set aside politics. Put governing first. This was brought home to me in 2000, when then-Gov.  

These days, everyone is dishing out advice to presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney regarding how he should tackle the task of selecting a running mate. Most pundits suggest he follow the conventional method of selecting a running mate based on her/his ...  

Shadow organizations are steps in the direction of alternative governments or alternatives to governments ... A shadow organization like the shadow FOMC and the Kuala Lumpur Foundation to Criminalise War has both a narrowly-defined mission and a continuing ...  

Crossroads GPS, founded with help from the man who engineered George W. Bush's victories, said it will spend $8 million to air the ad titled "Obama's Promise" in 10 battleground states. The ad airs starting tomorrow and runs through May 31. INTERACTIVE ...  

Former Vice-President Dick Cheney, a 71-year-old with a long history of cardiovascular problems, had a heart transplant Saturday and is recovering at a Virginia hospital. Not even Cheney knows the donor's identity.  

Bush was found guilty of war crimes along with his associates, Richard Cheney, former U.S. Vice President, Donald Rumsfeld, former Defense Secretary, Alberto Gonzales, then Counsel to President Bush, David Addington, then General Counsel to the Vice ...  

Former Vice President Dick Cheney, speaking in Washington last week, summed up the emerging consensus among the GOP’s political class. “The single most important criteria has to be the capacity to be president,” Cheney said. “That’s ...  

Democratic Rep. Chuck Kruger, a state legislator in Maine's "moderate caucus," called for former Vice President Dick Cheney to die like Saddam Hussein, and now regrets his "lousy attempt at humor." "Cheney deserves same final end he gave Saddam," Kruger ...  

Tufts University students conducted a symbolic waterboarding Wednesday evening to protest a visit on campus by former George W. Bush advisor Karl ... McCaw Lecture Series. Outside the Cohen Auditorium, where the lecture took place, about 25 ...  

“The Tribunal has recommended that the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission forward the ... The tribunal heard two other Statutory Declarations of Iraqi citizen Ali Shalal and Rahul Ahmed, another British citizen. “The tribunal was very ...  

WSET.com - ABC13George W. Bush offers tepid endorsement of RomneyWSETThe White House is threatening a veto of the House Armed Services Committee's version of next year's defense budget that totals $642 billion. The White House is threatening a veto of the House Armed Services Committee's version of next year's defense ...  

WASHINGTON -- Ever want to know how basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's trivia skills stack up against those of George W. Bush's former press secretary Dana Perino? The third-ever "Jeopardy!" Power Players Week episodes are taping Saturday at ...  

"Lynne and I have a gay daughter, so it's an issue our family is very familiar with. ...With the respect to the question of relationships, my general view is freedom means freedom for everyone. ... People ought to be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to." --Dick Cheney "But I have to tell you that over the course of-- several years, as I talk to friends and family and neighbors. When I think about-- members of my own staff...  

Editor's note: Mary Matalin, a Republican strategist, is a CNN political contributor. She has worked for Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush and was counselor to Vice President Dick Cheney. (CNN)-- Every syllable that ...  

USA TODAYFormer US vice president Cheney has heart transplantCTV.caAP Former Vice President Dick Cheney addresses the third annual Washington Ideas Forum at the Newseum in Washington, Thursday Oct. 6, 2011.(AP / Manuel Balce Ceneta) WASHINGTON — Former Vice-President Dick Cheney, a 71-year-old with a long history of ...Aide says Cheney had heart transplantThe Associated PressVice President Cheney has heart transplantWashington PostHeart...  

Yahoo! News BlogsColin Powell's New Book: Bush Administration Never Debated Iraq WarMediaiteby Andrew Kirell | 12:25 pm, May 11th, 2012 In his new book, former Secretary of State Colin Powell confirms that there was no serious debate within the George W. Bush administration during the 2003 run-up to the war with Iraq.Colin Powell can't give himself a pass on Iraq warThe GrioColin Powell: US was set for war with Iraq before his UN speechYahoo...  

This is a follow up to commentary and email responding to Obama on Marriage Equality: Eight years behind Dick Cheney! Cultural historian Morris Berman, who makes Michael Moore seem like a rah-rah American cheerleader, is not one of my favorite ...  

Dana Priest wrote about secret prisons and controversial parts of the Bush-Cheney counter-terrorism tactics; Jo Becker and Barton Gellman investigated the growing influence of Dick Cheney into national policies; and Dana Priest, Anne Hull, and Michael ...  

Former Vice President Dick Cheney was released from a Virginia hospital today after a March 24 heart transplant operation. Cheney, 71, left Inova Fairfax Hospital Heart and Vascular Institute 10 days after the surgery, spokeswoman Kara Ahern said.  

Karl Rove, Wall Street JournalWeve entered the silly season when vast numbers of words will be expended on who Mitt Romneys vice presidential running mate should be. Since the actual announcement is likely to be made shortly before the Aug. 31 GOP convention, well have to endure three-and-a-half months of pundits handicapping prospects.This exercise is largely useless. Who thought at this point in 2000 that the vice-presidential nominees would...  

Republicans have accused Democrats of using these cases as political weapons against George W. Bush. Rep. Chris Cannon, a Republican from Utah, said that "if the majority was serious about getting to the bottom of this issue", they would have accepted Rove ...  

Former vice president Dick Cheney, who has suffered five heart attacks since his late 30s, underwent a heart transplant Saturday after more than 20 months on a transplant list, according to his office. “Although the former Vice President and his family ...  

Cheney, 71, who served as vice president in the George W. Bush administration, has had a long history of heart trouble. He had his first heart attack in 1978 when he was just 37. After his fourth heart attack in 2000 he had a defibrillator implanted in his ...  

The GOP gay rights group GOProud notes that President Obama's support for same-sex marriage lagged Dick Cheney. Co-founder Chris Barron, in a statement: “It is good to see that after intense political pressure that President Obama has finally come around ...  

Statement from the Office of Former Vice President Dick Cheney April 3, 2012 Former Vice President Dick Cheney was released today from Inova Fairfax Hospital Heart and Vascular Institute ten [...]  

Washington - Former US vice president Dick Cheney received a heart transplant Saturday at a Virginia hospital after years of heart problems, his office said. The 71-year-old politician who served at former president George W Bush's deputy ...  

It might sound like a lot of time between now and then, but the Wall Street Journal wants to make sure its man—former ... actual ideas and not "the gauzy American exceptionalism that Mr. Romney offered in his Tuesday night speech.  

Karl Rove, a former adviser to President George W. Bush, will speak to the Young America’s Foundation and College Republicans April 30 about the political landscape for the upcoming presidential election.  

WASHINGTON -- In his new book, former Secretary of State Colin Powell provides what may be the most authoritative confirmation yet that there was never a considered debate in the George W. Bush White House about whether going to war in Iraq was ...  

WASHINGTON, March 25, 2012 (AFP) -Former US vice president Dick Cheney was in hospital Sunday, recovering after a long-awaited and "lifesaving" heart transplant from an unknown donor to whom he will "be forever grateful." Cheney, 71, a central ...  

Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney is recovering after undergoing heart transplant surgery Saturday. Cheney's office said he is in the intensive-care unit at a Virginia hospital.  He had been on a waiting list to receive a heart for 20 months.  

Sky NewsDick Cheney served as US vice president under George W BushSky NewsThe 71-year-old, who was a controversial figure in the George W Bush administration, has had a long history of heart trouble. His spokeswoman said he was in the intensive care unit of Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Virginia, ...Dick Cheney recovering after heart transplantCNN (blog)Dick Cheney undergoes heart transplantHaaretzall 1,416 news articles »  

Chuck Colson was an incredible story of religious redemption—and political rebound. Late in life, Colson was an advisor to the George W. Bush administration. Karl Rove, who grew up as a Presbyterian in Utah, recently spoke with Christianity ...  

Former Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman (D-NY) told MSNBC’s Martin Bashir on Thursday that former President George W. Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney could still be held accountable for violating federal criminal statues. “As a former ...  

Is noted political commentator and daughter of Dick Cheney ready to run for the US Senate on the Republican ticket from Wyoming? Politico is reporting that she is on the rubber chicken circuit in that state and is almost ready to move back there to ...  

President Barack Obama has squandered opportunities to create jobs, says Karl Rove, former senior adviser for President George W. Bush. “The Obama administration has made a mess of important opportunities that would provide more jobs and ...  

Karl Rove in Matt Viser's terrific new profile of Beth Myers-- the woman who was just tasked to lead Mitt Romney's VP hunt. “We were great friends then [1980] and we’re great friends now,’’ Rove, who went on to become President George W. Bush’s ...  

The three other former attorneys general at the event were Alberto Gonzales and Michael Mukasey, both of whom served under President George W. Bush, and Richard Thornburgh, who served under President George H.W. Bush. Mukasey said such killings are justified.  

WASHINGTON -- Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales -- who was the first person of Hispanic descent to hold that position and a lightning rod for controversy as President George W. Bush's chief legal adviser on the war on terror -- warned his ...  

Lunch with Karl RoveAccounting TodayBy Michael Cohn, Editor-in-Chief, AccountingToday.com I had the unexpected surprise yesterday of lunching with Karl Rove, known as the architect of President George W. Bush's election campaigns. Rove was among the many Republican luminaries attending a ...Video: As Santorum Ends Presidential Bid, Karl Rove On What Mitt Romney Must DoForbesMorning Briefing for April 11, 2012RedStateall 3 news articles »  

Former Vice President Dick Cheney underwent a heart transplant on Saturday and is recovering in a Virginia hospital, a spokeswoman for Cheney said in an email. Cheney, 71, a Republican who served as vice president in the George W. Bush administration ...  

So, the thin vapors started wafting out from the emanations of the Associated Press yesterday that Vice President Dick Cheney was, perhaps, too “elderly” to receive a heart transplant. Who, exactly –the literati wanted to know– did the ...  

Right-wing lightning rod Karl Rove is expected to speak at Tufts University tonight after he was invited to the Medford campus by the school’s Republican group. Rove, a prominent Republican strategist who served under President George W. Bush ...  

Karl Rove, former senior advisor and deputy chief of staff to President George W. Bush, spoke about his career in the White House in Cohen Auditorium last night as part of the Young America’s Foundation (YAF) Wendy P. McCaw Lecture Series.  

Matt Damon, known for his liberal politics, gave credit where credit was due to former President George W. Bush. And he said he’d do it with more than just thanks. “I would kiss George W. Bush on the mouth for what he did on PEPFAR,” he told The ...  

Former Vice President Dick Cheney is recovering in a Virginia hospital after undergoing a heart transplant on Saturday, a spokeswoman for Cheney said in an email. Cheney, 71, who served as vice president in the George W. Bush administration, has ...  

FALLS CHURCH, VA (The Borowitz Report) – Former Vice President Dick Cheney received a heart transplant today, but former President George W. Bush remained on a waiting list for a brain, hospital officials confirmed.As part of a government contract signed while he was still Vice President, Halliburton performed ...  

Karl Rove's NAACP Analogy Runs Afoul Of Law, HistoryHuffington PostBut to hear Karl Rove and some other Republicans talk, the two groups share a legitimate fear of intimidation -- and deserve the same legal protection. Rove, formerly ex-President George W. Bush's "brain" and now one of the GOP's foremost political ...and more »  

Former President George W. Bush visited New York Tuesday to talk taxes, a rare appearance for the famously cloistered ex-commander in chief. Bush visited the New York Historical Society, which hosted the George W. Bush Presidential Center's conference on ...  

Former President George W. Bush delivered a rare public speech Tuesday, in which he called for lower taxes and lower spending to get the ailing US economy back on track. Bush was speaking at the New York Historical Society at a George W. Bush Presidential ...  

Cheney was in the Intensive Care Unit of Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, his office said in a statement. Cheney, 71, who served as vice president in the George W. Bush administration, has had a long history of heart trouble and has been on the ...  

Washington Post - Found 1 hour agoCheney, 71, was recovering Saturday in the intensive care unit of Inova Fairfax Hospital in the Falls Church area, Ahern said.Cheney, who served as vice president under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2009, suffered his first heart attack when he was 37. In 1988, Cheney underwent ... Cheney's long history of heart troubles - CBS News Cheney Recovering...  

Washington, Mar 25 (ANI): Former US Vice-President Dick Cheney has had a heart transplant and is now recovering in a Virginia hospital. Cheney, 71, who served as vice president in the George W. Bush administration, has had a long history of ...  

Black has been a key figure in the campaigns of Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, Bob Dole, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, and John McCain. While it is easy to criticize Black as the consummate establishment Republican and Washington insider, few understand ...  

List: Cheney's heart problems since 1978 In 2010 ... He has been a colleague and friend for many years, and we are glad that the surgery went well." "Ann and I send our thoughts and prayers to Vice President Cheney for a fast and full recovery," Mitt ...  

This from a man who had two DWI arrests, was instrumental in the CIA identity leak scandal involving Valerie Plame Wilson, and waited for days to answer to the public about shooting his friend in the face. This is from a sitting Vice President ...  

But Bush has remained busy, publishing a memoir and working on the George W. Bush Presidential Center at Southern Methodist University, which includes his presidential archives and policy institute. Bush emerged today in New York at a conference ...  

WASHINGTON -- A newly released memo shows that a former State Department official strongly dissented from the George W. Bush administration's secret legal view in 2005 that an international treaty against torture did not apply to CIA interrogations in foreign countries.Until now, the February 2006 analysis by Philip Zelikow has been a high-level, classified internal critique of the Bush administration's controversial interrogation policies. At...  

Houston ChronicleAmerican Crossroads vs. President ObamaWashington Post (blog)Karl Rove, former chief political adviser to former President George W. Bush, gestures as he addresses members of the Virginia Chamber of Commerce in Williamsburg, Va., Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)Santorum's decision, while somewhat ...Video: Karl Rove's Group Hits Obama With Energy Ad in FloridaSunshine State News (blog)Obama Campaign Uses...  

The George W. Bush Institute this week unveiled the Freedom Collection, a first-of-its-kind living repository documenting the continued struggle for human freedom and liberty around the world. Photo: George W. Bush is joined by Mrs. Laura Bush and Dr. Angel Garrido at the launch of the Bush Center’s Freedom Collection in Dallas. Photo via The George W. Bush Institute, Grant Miller. President Bush and Laura Bush spoke to an audience of...  

On April 26-28, 2012, twenty servicemen and women wounded in Iraq or Afghanistan will join President George W. Bush for a 100 kilometer mountain bike ride in Palo Duro Canyon State Park. As part of the George W. Bush Presidential Center’s ...  

It can be said that her boss, George W. Bush, pursued democracy at the expense of stability—and got neither. Consider that documented civilian deaths in Iraq since Bush’s 2003 invasion—noncombatants killed by military or paramilitary acts ...  

American Crossroads, a conservative group headed by former President George W. Bush advisor Karl Rove, has released a cleaver and effective ad parodying today’s first day of oral arguments in the Supreme Court on the constitutionality of the individual ...  

Karl Rove, Republican campaign strategist and former senior adviser to former President George W. Bush, came to Rider University last week to give an address for the Rebovich Institute of Politics. But Rove, a regular Fox TV commentator, offered ...  

Mr Cheney's office confirmed that the controversial Republican who served two terms as vice-president to George W. Bush was recovering in intensive care in a Virginia hospital after the transplant yesterday. "Although the former vice-president and his ...  

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney filmed a television advertisement endorsing the only mayor of a major U.S. city to publicly call for the impeachment of former President George W. Bush. The advertisement was filmed while Romney was in office as the ...  

Jose Padilla had sought to sue UC Berkeley professor John Yoo over interrogation techniques Yoo helped create during the George W. Bush administration. A UC Berkeley law professor who helped the Bush administration create policies to justify harsh interrogation techniques and prolonged detention may not be sued by an American citizen detained under those conditions, a federal appeals court ruled ...  

CINCINNATI (USA TODAY) — President Obama will be a tough opponent but can be beaten this fall if the GOP sticks together, political strategist Karl Rove said Wednesday. Twelve years ago, Rove engineered George W. Bush's rise from the Texas Statehouse to ...  

Cheney, 71, a Republican who served as vice president in the George W. Bush administration, has had a long history of heart trouble. The spokeswoman said Cheney was recovering in the intensive care unit of Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Va.  

President Barack Obama’s leadership of the country is “shriveling before our eyes,” former George W. Bush adviser Karl Rove writes in the Wall Street Journal. He has now given at least three conflicting explanations as to why he wants the ...  

Bush's tenure. He also represented Wyoming in Congress, was defense secretary under President George H.W. Bush and was chief of staff for President Gerald Ford. In the private sector, he was chairman and chief executive officer of Haliburton Co. from 1995 to 2000.  

The 71-year-old politician underwent surgery at Inova Fairfax Hospital in northern Virginia, according to Fox News and CBS News, which quoted a spokesman from his office. Cheney had been on a transplant waiting list for 20 months, according to a statement ...  

Libraries, you will recall, are playgrounds for terrorists—which is why George W. Bush and Dick Cheney made sure the that PATRIOT Act empowered the FBI to rummage through library records with impunity and without a warrant, confidentiality be damned.  

COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS (KCEN) -- Remembering victims of the holocaust. Tuesday, a new exhibit was unveiled at the Bush Presidential Library at Texas A&M.; It commemorates heroes of the World War II era. Some of them never mentioned in history books.  

#libraries Libraries, you will recall, are playgrounds for terrorists—which is why George W. Bush and Dick Cheney made sure the that PATRIOT Act empowered the FBI to rummage through library records with impunity and without a warrant, confidentiality be damned. But now that there's a lawsuit seeking records from their presidential libraries, Bush and Cheney are hiding behind the Librarian's Code...  

It was disappointing but no surprise when three weeks after attaining a life-saving heart transplant, Dick Cheney would posit on the Sunday morning talk-show circuit, "I can't think of a time when it was more important to defeat an incumbent president.  

Last night, Sean Hannity devoted an entire segment to a quiz show where all the questions were, “Who said…” followed by a verbal gaffe. All the answers were multiple choice: George W. Bush, Sarah Palin or Barack Obama. Guess what the answer was each ...  

In 2006, under President George W. Bush, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives began the first of a series of misguided operations that allowed illegal guns to be sold to arms traffickers and, eventually, to Mexican drug cartels.  

WASHINGTON — A memo released Tuesday on harsh interrogation techniques shows that a former State Department official strongly dissented from the George W. Bush administration's secret legal view in 2005 that an international treaty against ...  

I suppose that means that Reagan was responsible for Iran-Contra, H.W. Bush was responsible for sexually harassing Anita Hill and W. Bush was responsible for lying about the weapons of mass destruction that never existed in Iraq. In a world brimming with ...  

Alberto R. Gonzales: Fairness and Justice for Immigrant Children -A ProposalFox NewsAP Alberto R. Gonzales, former United States Attorney General and former Counsel to President George W. Bush, currently visiting professor at Texas Tech University and a regular columnist for Fox News Latino.courtesy Alberto R. Gonzales Next Slide ...  

Speaking in New York on Tuesday, former President George W. Bush reflected on his time as president, telling a group of participants at the Bush Institute Conference on Taxes and Economic Growth that he does not miss the presidency. “I’m often asked ...  

“[A]fter there was a recession under Ronald Reagan, government employment went way up. It went up after the recessions under the first George Bush and the second George Bush,” he said. “So each time there was a recession with a Republican ...  

It’s hard to remember — after Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, Blackwater, etc., took turns dominating our collective consciousness — but the Cheney Energy Task Force was once among the gravest of the Bush administration’s sins. Created in the second week ...  

“President Bush was in touch with the family yesterday,” said the statement from Freddy Ford, Bush’s communications director. “He and Mrs. Bush were very happy to hear that the surgery went well. They are keeping Vice President Cheney in ...  

Contact: Bob Fu, President, 888-889-7757, Bob@ChinaAid.org; Mark Shan, Spokesperson, 888-889-7757 ... Available online at www.freedomcollection.org, it uses video interviews to document the personal stories of brave men and women who have ...  

An aging Henry Kissinger called out to a friend that they would have lunch soon. Karl Rove was greeted warmly by many guests and former Republican presidential nominee Steve Forbes also gave opening remarks, during which he fondly compared Bush ...  

Gorbachev says that officials from the George H.W. Bush Administration influenced his ... And let me tell you that our friends, including our friends in the United States, they spoke very sympathetically about the need to preserve some form ...  

Dick Cheney will speak at the Cox Convention Center as part of the Integris Cardiac Care Heart Failure Symposium. Cheney will lead a fireside chat at 1 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.  

Karl Rove, the Republican strategist who engineered George W. Bush’s election to the presidency 12 years ago, is the featured speaker at tonight’s Hamilton County Republican Party Lincoln-Reagan Day dinner. Rove, who was promised the ...  

THE CALL CAME in the middle of the night, but Dick Cheney was raring to go when he learned the time had finally come for a life-saving — but very risky — heart transplant surgery. “His response was to say, ‘Sure. What time? Let’s go ...  

“Republicans are — forgive the cliché — shocked, shocked to discover that a presidential contender is ‘politicizing’ an important national event,” Jon Meacham writes today, noting that Obama’s alleged “politicizing” might be a ...  

that people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. “The three presidents who took the most vacation time off are all Republicans,” says Mr. Weekley. “They are Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and the record-setter, George W. Bush ...  

"[A]fter there was a recession under Ronald Reagan, government employment went way up. It went up after the recessions under the first George Bush and the second George Bush. So each time there was a recession with a Republican ...  

Just like his predecessor, President George W. Bush, Barack Obama and his Israeli allies are working together to train foreign terrorists—sometimes even in the United States—to assassinate Iran’s scientists and military leaders, while ...  

With the next election coming up I've been thinking about this. It seems like the media long ago made a mutual decision to act like it never happened. Especially given the nearly unmitigated disaster of the Bush presidency, this miscarriage of justice and betrayal of democracy seems to me to be one of the worst events in modern history. submitted by eroggen to politics [link] [27 comments]  

Hes been out for years. Yes he started the war but its not like our current commander in chief is changing anything in the middle east. The debt continues to grow astronomically. Will anything ever be Obama's fault? submitted by OBEYthesky to politics [link] [62 comments]  

I figure you folks from Booker Elementary would have to be late teens/early twenties now, and I'd love to know your memories of that morning. Equally applicable to teachers or anyone else in the room. While your own emotions would be interesting, I'd be most interested in any observations about the President and his aides, and how they behaved. 1.) The video shows a few aides in the room, off-screen for most of it. Can you remember what they...  

http://i.imgur.com/kNf0i.jpg I've been using this ward position lately for warding bot lane, I'm able to see part of the river - works well for both sides. It's relatively easy to hit the edge too. An added benefit is that it still sees into part of the enemy jungle if you're purple and, of course, tri-bush. EDIT: This is without the scout mastery submitted by Hwrara to leagueoflegends [link] [113 comments]  

My family believes George Bush and Osama Bin Laden were good childhood friends, and planned 9/11 together to rid of all Americans. What reason do you have to be ashamed of your family? submitted by Baby_Boomer_Santa to AskReddit [link] [4 comments]  

Are there only places open for 24 hours when finals roll out? I'm a bit of an insomniac and it's hard to find places to study while my roommates are sleeping. Can anyone recommend me anything? submitted by SelfpostsAndUptokes to rutgers [link] [2 comments]  

BF says he does. he knows my reddit account so if you read this, I just am kind of confused as to WHY. . .he's explained to me its because I look much younger without it. He wants me to keep it under control, but I don't know how much is too much. When I ask him he says he has no preference. I'm really confused by this since every dude I've ever met has preferred it clean shaven. So if you like bush, how much bush is good? submitted by...  

Whiny damn white kid blonde female lead. He gets cut along his pubic bone in some coming of age ritual with a sharp rock. He's sleeping under a mosquito net, making me think that this was about Africa. submitted by NeoSpartacus to tipofmytongue [link] [3 comments]  

I was just a kid when Bush was elected and then "re-elected," but I didn't ever really watch the news much. I moved to Germany in 2004 (I was 15) and lived there for three years, so that put me even further away from the American political arena and the news. The only time politics ever came up was when people would ask where I was from and when I said Texas, they gave me a dirty look and went on to start America-bashing and "Oh my God, how...  

Details of the private telephone call between Tony Blair and George W. Bush on the eve of the Iraq war must finally be made public, a tribunal ruled yesterday.The Foreign Office has been ordered to release parts of the note describing...  

Former US vice president Dick Cheney was recovering in hospital on Saturday after a long-awaited and "lifesaving" heart transplant from an unknown donor to whom he will "be forever grateful."  

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I was there yesterday and they had a good selection of ammo. I picked up several boxes of Federal .45acp for $17.48 each, which is pretty good. submitted by Turbostar66 to DFWGuns [link] [2 comments]  

It was an all too familiar scene – the final seconds of the boys State 2A soccer championship ticking down and Cheney frantically scrambling around, trying to prevent the inevitable.  

SUMNER, Wash. – Archbishop Murphy had surrendered just two goals in the 20 previous combined matches. Cheney’s Micah Weller needed just 70 minutes to equal that mark.  

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