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President Bush announces $770 million in increased international food aid
5/1/2008 4:03 PM
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President Bush said today that more needs to be done to address the global food shortage, so today he is asking congress for an additional $770 million to support food aid and development programs.
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Bush presses Congress on student loan reform
4/29/2008 2:45 PM
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In his news conference today, Bush urged congress to act on a bill that would temporarily give the federal government greater authority to buy student loans. He asserted that the plan would safeguard student loans without permanently expanding the government's role in their financing.
Students have lost access to over 6.9 billion per year in student loans. Many lenders have left the market since the federal government cut their subsidies. Many investors who were hurt by the mortgage crisis are avoiding buying student loan backed bonds.
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Bush Throws Pope Massive Whitehouse Party
4/16/2008 3:37 PM
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President Bush is throwing quite the party for the Pope tonight, and, according to the Associated Press, all five Roman Catholic Supreme Court justices will be there, along with Sen. John McCain.Clinton and Obama weren't even invited, the AP reports, but it may be because they already had a debate scheduled and not for being abortionists.
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Bush Knew of High Level Torture Meetings
4/11/2008 7:55 PM
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The AP reported this morning that top-level Bush administration officials met in the White House situation room to discuss and develop the United States policy on torture.
That seems like a shocking enough revelation on its own (though it's long been suspected that that was the case) but this afternoon, in an interview with ABC News, President Bush said he knew about the meetings and approved of them.
"Well, we started to connect the dots, in order to protect the American people." Bush said And, yes, I'm aware our national security team met on this issue. And I approved." The White House must feel they are entirely out of any legal or political danger at this point, all of a sudden openly admitting something that seemed to go to great lengths to deny even as recently as a few months ago. But they certainly can count on the Democratic Congress to give them a pass.
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President Bush Hits New Low
4/11/2008 7:29 PM
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President Bush's job approval rating today has reached the lowest of his presidency: an astounding 28% of Americans think the president is doing a good job at the help of the country, according to a just released Gallup poll.
That seems to correlate well with the last week's poll revealing that 81% of people think the country is on the wrong track. That's a tough note to go out on after almost eight years are President of the United States, and also something of a hard act to follow for John McCain.
It's going to be pretty amazing to watch the general election results come in, no matter who the Democratic nominee is. This year has the potential to be something of a landslide. Maybe somewhere up near 58 or 59 per cent, if they don't blow it, that is
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Scooter Libby, who used to be Dick Cheney's chief of staff until he got into trouble for leaking a CIA agent's identity to reporters, was kicked out of the Washington, DC bar today.
He was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice in the CIA leak case last year, though President Bush later commuted his sentence. The DC bar association's rules dictate that anyone committed of morally dubious crime be expelled and thus Scooter today saw his law career come to and end, at least in the District of Columbia.
Out of politics, out of law and down on his luck where will Scooter turn? It's hard to get a job after you've been convicted of a crime unless you know someone or something like that. If only he had some powerful friends to help him get back on his feet...
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Newsweek is quick to report that 10,000 plus pages of scheduling documents released this week by the Clinton Library and the National Archives have been cleansed of potentially controversial information.
The Clinton campaign says the 4800 or so pages of redacted information has been withheld to protect the privacy of the individuals who are listed therein but, Newsweek says, the deletions and omissions are clearly more extensive.
As a result, the documents amount to merely a chronicling of her public appearances; nothing that might be of interest to learn more about Hillary Clinton's role in her husband's White House.
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Among the examples of obvious withholdings given in the piece is January 26, 1996, a day where Hillary made a widely publicized trip to the federal courthouse to testify in the Whitewater investigation. In the documents just released by the Archives, the only entry for that day say, "No public schedule."
In trying to not to rehash their political woes from the 1990s, the Clintons are likely to start the fire anew. They would have served themselves better by redacting as little as possible from the records.
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There are countless obstacles standing in the way of expansive troop withdrawals from Iraq, and now there's one more to add to the list.
Thanks to the slowing economy, there might not be enough jobs for soldiers returning to civilian life, a problem which could create far-reaching social complications by pushing already cash-strapped social service programs to their breaking point.
Returning from combat is inexpressibly difficult without tacking on the whole limited-prospects-for-the-future thing. This stands to illustrate a truism demonstrated by the Bush administration; if people who resent government are put in charge of it, they will break the entire system practically in its entirety whether they mean to or not.
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Bush didn't set out to leave the people who serve in the American armed forces out in the cold; he lacks the analytical capacity to see how his poor judgment exercised issue by issue would add up to a calamity that will reverberate for a century in ways so numerous and far-reaching as to be impossible to expect or fully predict.
Not that it takes a whole lot of processing power to understand that tens of thousands of troops coming home to a shrinking (at worst) or stagnant (at best) economy would be benefit anybody. But that's just pointing out the obvious.
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The President of the United States endorsed the man he beat for the Republican nomination in 2000 to be his successor.
John and Cindy McCain took a trip to the White House today to have lunch with George Bush followed by a public pronouncement of support.
McCain locked up the GOP nomination last night after winning enough delegates to get passed the magic 1191 number. CNN quotes Sen. Kay Baily Hutchison of Texas saying that McCain can now focus on winning the support of the party's base, the 30% of the electorate that doesn't like him and still approves of the job Bush is doing.
What a fantastic shift of positions for Bush. A man who was unfit to be president argues successfully that his opponent is the unprepared one, drives the country into the ground during his tenure in office, to only then endorse the man who he beat just eight years before.
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That's politics we suppose. But While McCain is busy trying to get the base behind him, Democrats are salivating over McCain's buddy-buddy routine with a figure as toxic as Bush. If only they didn't have the whole nomination mess still in their way, they'd be hard at work beating McCain already.
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