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George Bush 41 Makes Rib Run Before Favorite BBQ Place Closes
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyPresident George H. W. Bush went to his favorite barbecue place in Houston on Tuesday for a last meal before the restaurant is turned into a -- sniff -- bank. Bush, 85, was caught by a local cameraman at Otto's Barbecue ordering his usual -- beef ribs, sausage links, beef and a side of beans – on the day before the location closes. "We've been coming here for many years, [since] 1959 I think," Bush told KHOU-TV. "And we knew Otto, and we knew his widow and just think the world of the people. And they put on a good barbecue . . . I'll miss them. Our family will miss them." Otto's ...
Bill Clinton and George W. Bush to Lead Haiti Effort
By David Knowles - AOL News(Jan. 14) – Former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush have agreed to President Barack Obama's request that the two men help lead the United States' response to the devastating earthquake in Haiti. In a slightly altered reprisal of the bipartisan effort that helped coordinate America's outpouring of support for victims of the 2004 Southeast Asian tsunami, Clinton will be joined by his former partner's son, George W. Bush, CNN reports. Getty Images Former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton have agreed to lead an American aid effort for Haiti. More Coverage:- 10 ...
Opinion: Who's To Blame for the Massive Deficit?
By not in system - AOL News(Dec. 29) – The temporary increase in the national debt ceiling approved this month – combined with the prospect of a huge trillion-dollar-plus increase early next year – has once again prompted criticisms of President Obama for runaway spending and record deficits. All this borrowing is only necessary, we are told, because Obama ran up $1.4 trillion of debt in his first year. It's true that the White House is pushing big spending items, not least of which is his multitrillion-dollar scheme for government-run health care. But many critics, either out of ignorance or malice, ...
Ted Kennedy Was Just a Man
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyIf you click on any Edward Kennedy story on Politics Daily today, you will see above the headline a new graphic -- "Remembering Senator Kennedy" -- with a flattering picture of him. In the almost four months of Politics Daily's existence, I have never seen another story on the site honored with a special graphic. And here were seven -- seven! -- stories at my last count at 12:40 p.m. Wednesday, on a topic with no new developments other than that the man is still dead. ...
Biden, Rove, Former Bush Officials in War of Words Over WH Meetings
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyFormer members of the Bush Administration are disputing Vice President Joe Biden's version of events concerning comments the vice president says he delivered to President Bush in the Oval Office. Biden says that he delivered some sharply worded retorts to Bush on the subject of the Iraq War. On Tuesday, Biden said, "I remember Bush saying to me one time in the Oval Office, 'Well, Joe, I'm a leader.' And I said, 'Mr. President, turn around and look behind you, no one is following.'"But former Bush Administration officials are challenging the veracity of Biden's remarks, most notably Karl Rove. ...
Parsing the President's Pledges
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyLiberal supporters of President Barack Obama have busied themselves trying to explain how the presidential signing statement he issued last week did not violate his policy against using signing statements on legislation. Critics of the president's critics rest their arguments on a semantic parsing of candidate Obama's answer to a question posed to him on the campaign trail, and his Administration's recently issued guidelines on signing statements. But an examination of the president's actual words, rather than an analysis of one's feelings about what was said, reveals that candidate Obama did ...
Laura Bush, Condi Rice Defend Bush Presidency
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyGeorge W. Bush has at least two staunch defenders of his legacy as president, and they are the two most influential women in the White House, First Lady Laura Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. The two women are defending the Bush presidency against charges that it has been a failure. Speaking on the Sunday news shows, Bush and Rice both said that the judgment of history will be kind to President Bush, and sooner than anyone thinks.Both women focused their remarks on the president's record in foreign affairs, noting that the United States has helped liberate millions of people under ...
New York Times Blames President Bush for President Clinton's Mess
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThere is a rush on in some quarters of the liberal mainstream press to blame President Bush for anything and everything that could cause grief to the incoming Obama Administration. The New York Times, one of the usual suspects, takes its turn today with an article that attempts to lay blame at the feet of Bush for a chain of events that has it's root in the decisions of President Bill Clinton.At issue is the origin of the mortgage crisis and the reason for the rapid increase in sub-prime lending. The above average failure rate of these loans is likely the singular cause of the crisis of ...
Two Shoes for George W. Bush
By David Knowles - Politics DailyAfter watching this weekend's startling video of President George W. Bush ducking two shoes being hurled at his head by an Iraqi journalist in Baghdad, you may be asking yourself, why is that guy so pissed? Or, don't they have cream pies in Iraq?Well, more news over the weekend may provide some insight. Via the AP:A detailed official history of the U.S. effort to reconstruct Iraq after Saddam Hussein's overthrow in 2003 blamed its failings on "blinkered and disjointed" prewar planning, a deadly insurgency and wasteful and ill-managed contracting. The 500-plus page document also asserts that ...
Bush Seeks to Protect Abortion Foes in Proposed Health Care Rules
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyIn what will likely turn out to be one of its last official acts, the Bush Administration is finalizing rules that would protect health care workers and providers who object to abortion and contraception services on religious or moral grounds. The proposed rules, to be issued by the Department of Health and Human Services, would prevent any federally funded hospital or clinic from discriminating against doctors, nurses, pharmacists, or other health care workers who refuse to perform or assist in abortion, sterilization, or contraceptive procedures due to their conscientious objections. In ...
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