Tag Archives: Pres. George W. Bush

Mitt Romney on Newt Gingrich: He’s the front-runner

Posted on December 12th, 2011

By MIKE ALLEN MANCHESTER, N.H. — Mitt Romney, who just a month ago had hoped to seal the GOP presidential nomination with Florida’s primary on Jan. 31, tells POLITICO that he now foresees an epic fight with Newt Gingrich that could last through the California primary on June 5. Asked if the former House speaker [...]

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A disastrous summer for the White House. Is Barack Obama now the most unpopular US president since Jimmy Carter?

Posted on August 15th, 2011

EXCERPT ONLY: Could President Obama’s approval rating fall as low as Jimmy Carter’s, hovering just above 30 percent? Undoubtedly it could, with the economic situation deteriorating and consumer confidence plunging. This is a distinctly Carter-esque presidency, with a weak president unable to lead, hugely challenging economic conditions, and declining American power on the world stage. Gallup’s [...]

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Campaigning in N.H., Romney focuses on economy but avoids specifics

Posted on July 16th, 2011

Republican Mitt Romney often says, as he did at three campaign stops here Thursday, that he wants to create jobs by lowering taxes. He says he wants to loosen federal regulations on businesses. And he says he has a unique skill set from 25 years in the private sector to develop innovative solutions that can revive the [...]

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Nation awakes to joyous images — and warning

Posted on May 2nd, 2011

By JONATHAN ALLEN & JOSH GERSTEIN & JULIE MASON With Osama bin Laden dead and buried at sea, America awoke to joyous images of celebration and relief Monday even as President Barack Obama – already winning broad bipartisan praise for stopping the world’s most wanted man after 10 years — warned the fight against terrorism [...]

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The ‘Your Money Is Not Yours’ Crowd

Posted on January 29th, 2011

By:  Bill Costello Paul Krugman, columnist for the New York Times, recently criticized those who “see taxes and regulation as tyrannical impositions on their liberty” and who believe “that people have a right to keep what they earn.” One branch of American politics shares Krugman’s view that the money you earn — the material manifestation [...]

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President Obama, Why Have You Forsken Your Promise to Close Guantanamo?

Posted on January 11th, 2011

[Editor's Note: I don't agree with many of the assertions in this article and I am most assuredly not taking the leftist position that we have committed human rights abuses at Gitmo. If anything, we go overboard in our attempts to make incarceration time for terrorists as pleasant as possible. However, I think it's useful [...]

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Playing You to the Bitter End

Posted on October 27th, 2010

THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR BY: PETER FERRARA In July 1953, after President Eisenhower had been in office for just six months, the U.S. economy tumbled into recession. He didn’t barnstorm around the country talking about how President Truman had driven the economy into a ditch, and how it was such a struggle to get the economy [...]

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GOP mega-donors look toward 2012

Posted on October 23rd, 2010

POLITICO By MAGGIE HABERMAN & KENNETH P. VOGEL  As the 2010 campaign draws to its raucous close, the Republican Party’s biggest donors are slowly beginning to choose sides, with some still looking for a strong alternative to a populist conservative movement that makes them uneasy. The big New York, Texas, California and Florida donors who [...]

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A presidency on the verge of a nervous breakdown: 5 key reasons why Barack Obama’s future looks increasingly bleak

Posted on October 10th, 2010

Nile Gardiner is a Washington-based foreign affairs analyst and political commentator. He appears frequently on American and British television and radio, including Fox News Channel, CNN, BBC, Sky News, and NPR. By: Nile Gardiner telegraph.co.uk Forget the myth of an Obama recovery. The past week has been disastrous for the White House and America’s increasingly [...]

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A Monumental Contest

Posted on September 20th, 2010

With the primary season complete, the terms of battle are set — for the general election and for the next era in American politics. Barack Obama’s election in 2008 was said to constitute the next great wave of progressivism after FDR and LBJ. But a massive electoral backlash is brewing against his policies, all his [...]

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