Tag Archives: Pres. George W. Bush

4 more years will cost us dearly

Posted on January 21st, 2013

  By: Holly Robichaud / Boston Herald Today, President Obama will celebrate his inauguration and another four-year term in office. So far, it has been a long, bumpy road, where the new norm is that our nation leads from behind, our government never wastes a crisis, gas is well above $3 per gallon and people [...]

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The Party’s Problem

Posted on November 14th, 2012

From the forthcoming issue of NATIONAL REVIEW     The first thing conservatives should understand about the electoral catastrophe that just befell us — and it was a catastrophe — is that any explanation of it that centers on Mitt Romney is mistaken.   Much of the discussion of the race among conservatives has made [...]

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Why Mitt Romney isn’t going to get blown out

Posted on September 27th, 2012

Posted by Chris Cillizza and Aaron Blake on September 27, 2012 at 6:30 am It’s easy amid a slew of swing state and national polling that shows President Obama opening up a high single-digit lead over Republican challenger Mitt Romney to conclude that we could be witnessing an electoral blowout in the making. But, there’s [...]

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9/11 Remembered

Posted on September 11th, 2012

On September 11, 2001, 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda hijacked four airliners and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States. Two of the planes were flown into the towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, a third plane hit the Pentagon just outside Washington, D.C., [...]

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The Hill Poll: Voters blame president most for slow economic recovery

Posted on July 24th, 2012

By Sheldon Alberts THE HILL Two-thirds of likely voters say the weak economy is Washington’s fault, and more blame President Obama than anybody else, according to a new poll for The Hill. It found that 66 percent believe paltry job growth and slow economic recovery is the result of bad policy. Thirty-four percent say Obama [...]

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Why Mitt Romney will be a good president

Posted on April 23rd, 2012

By KAREN HUGHES Ten years ago, I walked into the White House press room and shocked the reporters there by announcing that later that summer, I would be leaving my job as counselor to the president to return to Texas. The decision was agonizingly difficult and purely personal. I believed in President George W. Bush, [...]

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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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