Bush receives, dismisses state-run
health care
San Francisco Chronicle Jul 25, 07 4:58 PM CDT
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Even as Bush knocks “government-run health care,” San Francisco Chronicle columnist David Lazarus points out, he receives a generous helping of it: The president's colonoscopy last week was of course performed by first-rate taxpayer-funded professionals at a taxpayer-funded facility.
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Judiciary Committee votes along party lines to issue contempt citations to Harriet Miers and Joshua Bolten
Washington Post Jul 25, 07 3:16 PM CDT
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The House Judiciary Committee voted to issue contempt citations to two of President Bush's top aides for defying subpoenas related to the US attorney firings scandal, edging Congress closer to a Constitutional showdown with the White House over its claims of executive privilege. The committee voted along party lines 22-17 to charge Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten and former counsel Harriet Miers.
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Commander-in-chief adamant al-Qaeda in Iraq is key branch of broader network
Washington Post Jul 25, 07 6:13 AM CDT
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President Bush insisted again yesterday that a Sunni insurgent group in Iraq is an integral part of Osama bin Laden's worldwide al-Qaeda network—-rebuffing several experts' claims to the contrary. Recent reports have suggested that Sunnis fighting under the "al-Qaeda in Iraq" banner are local insurgents with a weak connection to the eponymous parent organization.
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Leaders' virtual meetings produce
few concrete results
New York Times Jul 25, 07 5:43 AM CDT
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Across thousands of miles, President Bush remains a close adviser to Iraqi PM Nuri al-Maliki. At least every 2 weeks, the politicians confer over a satellite uplink, usually for more than an hour of discussion about the civil war, Iraq's future, and even their shared religious devotion. "They talk about the challenges they face," a source tells the Times.
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Senators assail Gonzales in acrimonious oversight hearing
New York Times Jul 24, 07 4:08 PM CDT
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Alberto Gonzales today refuted an ex-colleague's dramatic testimony about a 2004 visit to John Ashcroft's hospital bed, but the Senate Judiciary Committee wasn't buying it. Patrick Leahy and Arlen Specter were openly skeptical of the AG's account of the scene in John Ashcroft's room, and Specter raised the possibility of appointing a special prosecutor to investigate the US attorney firings.
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Anti-war mom will run against Pelosi
Associated Press Jul 24, 07 11:22 AM CDT
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Antiwar mom Cindy Sheehan was arrested yesterday after overstaying her welcome in Rep. John Conyer's office on Capitol Hill. She was there to urge Conyers to impeach President Bush over his conduct of the war in Iraq, and to announce that she will run for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco seat because Pelosi has declined to launch impeachment proceedings.
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Next cancer screening moved up, scheduled for 3 years from now
Associated Press Jul 23, 07 5:10 PM CDT
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The five polyps removed from President Bush during his Saturday colonoscopy were benign, the AP reports. Tony Snow said today that Bush's doctors had not expected to find any malignant growths, and he will undergo a colonoscopy again in 2010 rather than waiting the usual 5 years because of his history of polyp growth.
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"Lone wolf''s" campaign gains traction with the young and wired
New York Times Jul 22, 07 8:49 AM CDT
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Most Americans know him—if at all— as the firebrand Texas congressman who’s always pushed to the end of the line during debates. Ron Paul flounders at the bottom of national polls, but he's is the most “friended” Republican on myspace.com. And he's the lone GOP presidential candidate who opposes the Iraq war. His solution to the mess, he tells the New York Times : “Just leave.”
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Cheney era over after docs
remove polyps from president
Reuters Jul 21, 07 2:05 PM CDT
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George Bush resumed his duties as president today, two hours after voluntarily handing them over to VP Cheney while he underwent a colonoscopy. Bush is eager to get back to work, a White House spokesman said; Cheney spent his moment in the sun reading at home, and "nothing occurred that required him to take official action as acting president."
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CIA program will continue with "enhanced" methods
Washington Post Jul 21, 07 9:36 AM CDT
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President Bush set broad new limits for questioning of CIA terror detainees yesterday, the Washington Post reports. The new regulations for "enhanced" interrogations—used to press suspects by means not allowed in US military custody—are an attempt at partial compliance with the Geneva Conventions.
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