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By David Knowles - AOL News(Dec. 29) -- After 24 years of marriage, Karl Rove, former president George W. Bush's senior adviser, has been granted a divorce from his second wife, Darby Rove. A family friend of Rove's told Politico, "After 24 years of marriage, many of which were spent under incredible stress and strain during the White House years, the Roves came to a mutual decision that they would end their marriage. They did spend Christmas together with their son, and they plan to spend time together in the future. They maintain a strong friendship, and they both feel that that friendship is a source of comfort and ...
Obama Nominates Former Bush Aide Dana Perino for Administration Job
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyPresident Obama has nominated George W. Bush's former press secretary Dana Perino for a post on the board overseeing government-sponsored international broadcasting. Perino, who worked in the Bush White House from 2005-2009, was appointed Wednesday to the Broadcasting Board of Governors, AFP reported. Her nomination must be confirmed by the Senate. "I'm honored by the president's announcement and I'm looking forward to serving on the bipartisan board, if I'm confirmed," Perino said. The BBG administers overseas media outlets like Voice of America, Radio Free Europe and Radio Free Asia. Created ...
Perino: Talk to the Hand
By Denise Williams - Politics DailySoon-to-be-unemployed White House spokesmodel Dana Perino spared no reporter her snappy wit and dazzling repartee on her next-to-last press conference.When asked if the President had any last minute pardons in the pipeline, Ms. Perino replied, "I just have you talk to the hand when it comes to pardons. But I don't - we have never talked about them from here, in terms of what may or may not be coming, and I'm not going to start on - five days to go. ... I don't anticipate that you'll have any, necessarily, on the 20th."Oh, snap, Dana! You go girl!Watch below (video via Think Progress). I'll ...
McClellan Slams Bush
By David Knowles - Politics DailyComing to a bookstore near you, former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan will be dishing the dirt on his old boss, George W. Bush. Of all the jobs in Washington DC, none is more synonymous with a brown nose than that of the Press Secretary. It's a tough gig, really: a never-ending spin parade to make the president's every decision seem justified to a room full of reporters hell-bent on proving just the opposite. Attributes required to perform the duties of Press Secretary are: staunch loyalty (see Ari Fleischer), deer in the headlights calm (see Dana Perino), combative obfuscation ...
White House Continues Pushback Against NBC
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe White House shed more light on its objections to an edited recording of an interview with President Bush conducted by Richard Engel of NBC News and aired on the NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams and The Today Show. In response to a question at today's daily press briefing, White House Press Secretary Dana Perino said that the Administration had received no response from NBC News to a letter sent to them yesterday by Counselor to the President Ed Gillespie, adding, "I think it's quite telling that they have been silent."In his letter to NBC News President Steve Capus, Gillespie charged ...
Bush to Announce 'Realistic' Emissions Plan
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyAfter receiving Pope Benedict XVI at the White House today, President Bush will get back to the business of state, announcing a new initiative on greenhouse gas emissions. The Administration will propose a new set of reduction targets for power plants to be met by 2025, in hopes of forestalling future regulatory action by Congress and the next Administration. Today's announcement seeks to begin a process of putting the nation on a path to regulating emissions in what the White House calls a "realistic" way. Whoever is elected president, Republican John McCain or Democrats Barack Obama or ...
Perino Doesn't Understand Boy Toys and Stuff
By Denise Williams - Politics DailyWhite House spokesmodel Dana Perino surprised even Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday today talking about hard it is to be her sometimes. She has to look good all the time and sometimes all that war stuff is hard! (via ThinkProgress)Some of the terms I just don't know, I haven't grown up knowing. The type of missiles that are out there: patriots and scuds and cruise missiles and tomahawk missiles. And I think that men just by osmosis understand all of these things, and they're things that I really have to work at - to know the difference between a carrier and a destroyer, and what it means when ...
White House Role in Tape Destruction Disputed
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe New York Times reports today that top White House and Bush Administration lawyers were more deeply involved in discussions about whether to destroy CIA vidoetapes of terrorist deatinee interrogations. The report contains conflicting information from current and former sources within the Administration. According to the Times, two former White Hosue Counsels, Alberto Gonzales and Harriet Miers, as well as Vice-President Cheney's counsel, David Addington, and John Bellinger, the top lawyer at the National Security Council, participated in talks about the fate of the tapes between 2003 and ...
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