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  • July 2008

    • 'Creative' Bush Order Shields Cheney from Plame Probe

      Newsweek  |  Jul 17, 08 3:07 AM CDT

      'Creative' Bush Order Shields Cheney from Plame Probe

      (Newser) - President Bush has invoked an unprecedented executive privilege claim to bar FBI interviews with Dick Cheney from a congressional committee probing the leak that exposed Valerie Plame as a CIA agent, Newsweek reports. The Bush order argues that turning over the records of Cheney's grilling concerning the scandal would violate the president's right to confidential communication with his advisers. More »

    • McCain Camp Likens Obama —to Bush?

      Huffington Post  |  Jul 16, 08 6:22 PM CDT

      McCain Camp Likens Obama &mdash;to Bush?

      (Newser) - The McCain camp borrowed a page from its rivals today with a new tack on Barack Obama: He looks a whole lot like George W. Bush. McCain's national security adviser took Obama to task for the rigidity of his Iraq strategy, the Huffington Post reports. "I think the American people have had enough of stubbornness and inflexibility in national security policy,” said Randy Scheunemann. More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • George W. Bush  • Iraq exit strategy  • flip flop

    • 'No Immediate Plans' to Prop Up Freddie/Fannie: Paulson

      Bloomberg  |  Jul 15, 08 1:08 PM CDT

      'No Immediate Plans' to Prop Up Freddie/Fannie: Paulson

      (Newser) - The US government won't be lending capital to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the near future, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson told a Senate committee today. "There are no immediate plans to access either the proposed liquidity or the proposed capital backstop,'' Paulson said, and any lending to the mortgage giants would be done "under terms and conditions that protect the US taxpayer," Bloomberg reports. More »

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      George W. Bush  • Financial Crisis  • Federal Reserve  • Henry Paulson  • Ben Bernanke  • Fannie Mae  • Freddie Mac  • Senate Banking Committee

    • History Against McCain Winning Third Term for GOP

      Boston Globe  |  Jul 14, 08 4:10 PM CDT

      History Against McCain Winning Third Term for GOP

      (Newser) - In all six elections since 1928 in which one party had 8 consecutive years in the White House, the incumbent party lost popular vote ground; in four, Americans voted for change. That's bad news for John McCain, Robert David Sullivan writes in the Boston Globe , because George Bush only won 50.7% of the national popular vote in 2004. More »

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      John McCain  • George W. Bush  • Al Gore  • New Jersey  • Pennsylvania  • Delaware  • incumbents  • election history

    • Bush Will Lift Ban on Offshore Drilling

      Associated Press  |  Jul 14, 08 10:24 AM CDT

      Bush Will Lift Ban on Offshore Drilling

      (Newser) - President Bush is about to lift the ban on offshore drilling that's stood since his father was in office, White House press secretary Dana Perino announced today. The move will be meaningless unless Congress follows suit, the AP reports. Two bans on the practice are in place: an executive order signed by Bush 41 and a law enacted by Congress. More »

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      George W. Bush  • Bush administration  • George H. W. Bush  • oil drilling  • offshore oil  • oil exploration  • executive order

    • US Weighs Faster Iraq Withdrawal

      New York Times  |  Jul 13, 08 7:29 AM CDT

      US Weighs Faster Iraq Withdrawal

      (Newser) - US officials in Washington and Baghdad may pull as many as three brigades from Iraq by the time George Bush leaves office, the New York Times reports. The move, driven in part by a need to bolster the American presence in Afghanistan, could remove far more troops than seemed likely just months ago, and would mark a major shift in policy from the past few years. More »

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      John McCain  • Iraq  • George W. Bush  • Iraq war  • Afghanistan  • US military  • troop withdrawal  • Iraq pullout

    • Senate OKs Foreclosure Relief Bill

      Associated Press  |  Jul 11, 08 8:35 PM CDT

      Senate OKs Foreclosure Relief Bill

      (Newser) - By a huge margin, the Senate today passed a $300 billion bill to help homeowners avoid foreclosure—but the White House vows to veto it unless the House makes changes, the AP reports. The bill will let struggling homeowners reinsure at cheaper rates backed by the government, but President President Bush says that nearly $4 billion in the bill, slated to fix up foreclosed homes, benefits lenders, not owners. More »

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      George W. Bush  • Senate  • House of Representatives  • mortgage crisis  • Federal Housing Administration  • bill  • Bush veto

    • Rove: Obama Copying My Strategy, With Nod to Nixon

      Wall Street Journal  |  Jul 10, 08 11:53 AM CDT

      Rove: Obama Copying My Strategy, With Nod to Nixon

      (Newser) - For all Barack Obama's shots at the Bush Administration, the Democrat's campaign "has cribbed an awful lot from the Bush-Cheney playbooks," their author writes in the Wall Street Journal . Karl Rove sees his own winning strategies at work, from Obama's “army of persuasion,” to Internet efforts, to electoral “microtargeting,” to attempts to bring red states back into play. But there's a problem, Rove hints. More »

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      Barack Obama  • George W. Bush  • Karl Rove  • flip flop  • Richard Nixon

    • Bush Stuns G8 With 'Biggest Polluter' Boast

      Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Jul 10, 08 8:00 AM CDT

      Bush Stuns G8 With 'Biggest Polluter' Boast

      (Newser) - George Bush concluded the last G8 summit of his presidency with a defiant final joke: "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter," he quipped. The president then punched the air, his mouth fixed in a huge grin, the Daily Telegraph reports. Bush, who has faced international condemnation for years for his reluctance to fight climate change, then left the summit, as fellow leaders Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy looked on in shock. More »

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      George W. Bush  • environment  • Nicolas Sarkozy  • Gordon Brown  • pollution  • G8 summit

    • Emboldened Iraq Stands Up to Washington

      New York Times  |  Jul 10, 08 7:41 AM CDT

      Emboldened Iraq Stands Up to Washington

      (Newser) - Nouri al-Maliki and the Iraqi government are now openly demanding a timetable for the withdrawal of American forces, reports the New York Times . While nobody expects Baghdad to boot American troops, several military victories and greater political stability have emboldened Maliki, and the increasingly loud demands reflect a new confidence on the part of the Iraqi PM. More »

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      Iraq  • George W. Bush  • Bush administration  • Nouri al-Maliki  • American troops  • timetable

    • Union Ad Urges Vets to Abandon McCain

      Chicago Tribune  |&nbs