So a member of the Bush family had her e-mails hacked (some family friends also suffered the same fate), and some various awful things got published online—including implications on the health of George H.W. Bush, who recently left the hospital—as well as some amusing but innocuous things, like self portraits George W. Bush painted of himself.
Update: Originally posted a pic of Bush’s artwork, but then felt guilty about doing so. So here’s a version of the story without the pics. *sigh*
Obama, thinking to himself: “Go ahead, Mitt. Dig yourself out of this question.”
‘My man ran up $6 billion dollars in debt. What did Bush do?’ Come on, it’s crazy!Bill O’Reilly, claiming that Bush is old news and shouldn’t be a part of the debate.
Look, the guy was dealt a difficult hand, no question about it. But he’s had three years, his policies have failed. Rather than blame others … maybe offer some fresh solutions to the problems that we face. But that’s not going to happen between now and election day.Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush • Expressing disappointment that President Obama continues to point the finger at his brother, former President George W. Bush Sunday. Bush, who made the comments during an interview on “Meet The Press” on Sunday, also discussed his decision not to enter the 2012 presidential race, a move that both shocked and confused many within the GOP, citing a lack of motivation as the top reason he chose not to run for the nation’s highest office. source (via • follow)
Well, that’s one way to do it: Former president Bush provided the opposite of a shocker when revealing that he was endorsing Mitt Romney as his 2012 pick, but the way he did it was weird. “I’m for Mitt Romney,” he said to a reporter after a speech he gave on human rights in Washington on Tuesday — while the doors were closing on the elevator he was in. What, you can’t make a speech on the matter? That said, Bush (whose parents endorsed Romney in March) has been keeping a low profile since leaving office, mostly sticking to Texas and rarely hanging out in Washington. (photo by the U.S. Army)
I believed at the time that the documents were genuine, and I’ve never ceased believing that they are genuine.Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather • Discussing the saga of George W. Bush’s questioned National Guard service, and the documents Rather found which ended an until-then illustrious career with CBS. Years after the fact, Texas Monthly looks back at a case which Poynter suggests was doomed because CBS jumped the gun with sketchy information, from a mysterious source at a cattle show. Rather, meanwhile, is still trying to defend his roughed-up name. Now’s a good time to look back at this story — with eight years of distance from the controversial CBS report that made proportional spacing a political issue, it’s good to reconsider exactly what happened.
I wish they weren’t called the ‘Bush tax cuts.’Former President George W. Bush, revealing that the his most prominent remaining namesake in national politics is one he’d rather not have. That’s not to say he has any regrets about his tax-cutting ethos — much to the contrary, his speech was insisting on more money left in the hands of upper-income earners — but he believes that with a less polarizing name attached, there’d be less risk of the rates going back up. That’s pretty honest self-awareness, all things considered.
(Source: forbes.com)
So Dick Cheney just had a heart transplant. ”Although the former vice president and his family do not know the identity of the donor, they will be forever grateful for this lifesaving gift,” an aide to the former vice president said. Cheney famously has had a bum ticker for decades. (photo by Gage Skidmore)
I keep hearing the president say he’s responsible for keeping the country out of a Great Depression. No, no, no, that was President George W. Bush and Hank Paulson.Mitt Romney • At a town hall meeting today. We’re no political strategists, but we’re wondering how helpful it is for a presidential candidate to make a statement now, in 2012, that’s both pro-George W. Bush and pro-bailout. TARP, for instance, is currently sitting with a net -13 approval rating. Not exactly a winning issue. source (via • follow)
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State of the Union 2012: Breaking down the language
The National Post’s graphics team looks at key words and how many times they’ve been used in State of the Union addresses going back to 2001:
Obama, circa 2012: More American than Bush.
It is time to acknowledge this failure and adopt a more effective course for the federal role in education. Policymakers must abandon their faith-based embrace of test-and-punish strategies and, instead, pursue proven alternatives to guide and support the nation’s neediest schools and students.A policy assessment written by Lisa Guisbond, Monty Neill and Bob Schaeffer • Suggesting that No Child Left Behind, the Bush-era education law passed under bipartisan circumstances, should go the way of the dodo. The policy, now seen as an example of ineffective government overreach by many, celebrates its 10th birthday today, and politicians who once supported the law — including Rick Santorum, who voted for it and tried to push an intelligent design amendment into the bill — no longer do. Guisbond, Neill and Schaeffer’s report, which suggests revisiting the law based on the lessons learned from the past decade, is available to read over here. source (via • follow)
» How that money would help: The Obama administration has a couple of goals for that money. First, they plan to get antiretroviral drugs to 2 million more people by 2013. Second, they plan to give the drugs to 1.5 million more HIV-positive pregnant women, in an effort to prevent the disease from getting passed on to their children. The president, with Bill Clinton and George W. Bush by his side, is announcing the renewed anti-AIDS initiatives (as a part of World AIDS Day) as we write this.
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