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Bush administration stories: 532 news summaries

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Group Drops $15M on Pro-Surge Campaign

TV, Internet, radio ads backed by GOP heavies

Aug 22, 07 5:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Launched today by ex-White House PR man Ari Fleischer and a laundry list of pro-Bush bigwigs, a new group called Freedom's Watch has spent $15 million on ads to support the president's troop surge in Iraq, Politico reports. The group aims to fill a conservative "vacuum" ahead of September's... More »

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Bush administration • propaganda • advertising • troop surge • online advertising • Iraq pullout • Ari Fleischer • Freedom's Watch • MoveOn

Obama Would Ease Cuba Travel Limits

Candidate backs looser rules on money transfers, family visits

Aug 21, 07 11:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama says that as president, he would reverse the Bush administration's increased restrictions on travel to Cuba, the AP reports. Visiting or sending money to relatives on the Communist-controlled island became more difficult in 2004, a policy change the candidate calls "strategically blundering" in an op-ed published in... More »

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Bush administration • Florida • Barack Obama • travel • presidential campaign • Cuba • foreign policy • Little Havana • Cuban embargo • Election 2008 • presidential election

(Newser) - In the wake of Karl Rove's resignation, the Washington Post  does a detailed account of the political strategist's use of the White House to pursue his dream of insuring GOP dominance for the foreseeable future. While all administrations send senior officials out to help party members get elected, the Post... More »

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Bush administration • Karl Rove • White House • GOP • Republican Party • Hatch Act

Dems Afraid They've Let in Big Brother

New law could give White House broad spying powers

Aug 18, 07 6:59 PM CDT
(Newser) - Americans who phone friends or shoot emails overseas could have business records snatched up or be subject to searches whenever Washington wants, the Dems worry – after passing new surveillance powers that they may not have fully understood. Yet the White House swears that “the intent here was pure,... More »

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Bush administration • Congress • White House • homeland security • surveillance • warrantless wiretapping

Spokesman Snow Set to Quit

Aug 17, 07 6:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - White House spokesman Tony Snow, who recently battled colon cancer, is ready to step down from his post, CNN is reporting. The move could come as early as next month. On a TV interview show yesterday, Snow said he might not be able to stay for the rest of the... More »

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Bush administration • Tony Snow • White House • colon cancer • Dana Perino

White House
to Ghostwrite
Surge Report

Think Progress blogger furious over detail hidden in LA Times

Aug 15, 07 9:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - An irate blogger has blown up the fine print in today's news, exposing a plan by Washington to pen a long-awaited report on Iraq’s troop surge. Think Progress blogger Faiz posted a paragraph he discovered deep in a Los Angeles Times story, revealing that the White House will secretly... More »

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Bush administration • troop surge • White House • David Petraeus • ghostwrite • Iraq war • George W. Bush

Rumsfeld Resigned Before Midterm Elections

Iraq not mentioned; GOP critics seize on Bush inaction

Aug 15, 07 5:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - Donald Rumsfeld's resignation letter, obtained by Reuters, shows he told President Bush of his departure as defense secretary one day before the 2006 congressional elections; though Bush saw the letter on Election Day, the White House didn't announce the decision until the day after polls closed. Republicans warned the delay... More »

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Bush administration • Donald Rumsfeld • White House • resignation • Iraq war • George W. Bush

Carville: Rove Cost GOP
a Generation

Sticking to base was demographic disaster, Clinton adviser says

Aug 15, 07 3:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - Impressive electoral record aside, Karl Rove's strategy of aggressively courting the GOP base has soured an entire generation on the Republican Party, James Carville argues in the Financial Times. Bill Clinton's storied strategist says "theocratic underpinnings" of Rovian strategy are behind polls showing a nameless Democratic presidential candidate favored... More »

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Bush administration • Karl Rove • Republican • GOP • campaign adviser • James Carville • Election 2008 • George W. Bush

You Can't Blame the Man for Everything

Rove's political genius helped GOP grow, says Weekly Standard

Aug 14, 07 7:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - The media crowned him with a wizard's hat and now they’re knocking it off, saying they just don’t feel the magic anymore. But Rove was never a magician, always an adviser, and usually a brilliant one, argues the Weekly Standard’s Fred Barnes. After all, he steered Bush... More »

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Bush administration • Karl Rove • GOP • election • George W. Bush

The Rise and Fall of Rove

Boy genius couldn't build an unbeatable GOP coalition

Aug 14, 07 10:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Karl Rove may have been the but-for cause of the Bush presidency, but his dreams of using it to build a generation-long Republican hegemony that would undo the New Deal have been unquestionably dashed. Bush's boy genius envisioned a "permanent majority," but the Washington Post considers the reasons... More »

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Bush administration • Karl Rove • Republican • GOP • New Deal

Rove Exit Inspires
Pundit Ire

Leftie says he's quitting too soon, rightie says too late

Aug 13, 07 4:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Not all Karl Rove haters celebrated his announced departure today. The Nation’s David Corn, while pleased that taxpayers will no longer be paying the Bush political strategist's salary after August, feels that Rove deserves the punishment of being forced to stay “to the bitter end” of the unpopular... More »

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Bush administration • Karl Rove • Wall Street Journal • White House • GOP • Michelle Malkin

Why the 'Rove Presidency' Failed

‘Architect’ tried to force dynasty, cowed Congress instead of winning it

Aug 13, 07 10:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - With Karl Rove about to ankle the White House, the Atlantic's cover story on Rove as the principal architect of the Bush presidency becomes prescient. Joshua Green explores why the mastermind of W.'s two election victories—one of the best political minds of a generation—was unable to fulfill... More »

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Bush administration • Karl Rove • White House • FDR • Abraham Lincoln • George W. Bush

Bush
Loses
Brain

Top strategist Rove
says he'll step down
at end of month

Aug 13, 07 5:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush's most controversial political strategist, Karl Rove, will leave his White House deputy chief of staff position at the end of the month, the Wall Street Journal reports. "I just think it's time," said Rove, who has worked with Bush since 1993. "As much as I'd... More »

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Bush administration • Hillary Clinton • Karl Rove • investigation • White House • resignation • George W. Bush

Bush Was Treated for Lyme Disease

Early intervention after 2006 diagnosis headed off serious symptoms

Aug 9, 07 11:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush has increased his vigilance toward pesky invaders—ticks—since undergoing successful treatment for Lyme disease last August, the White House says. The report did not explain how the president contracted the disease, but a spokesman said it was “not uncommon for him to be riding a mountain... More »

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Bush administration • health • disease • illness • Lyme disease • tick • George W. Bush

US Nears Deal to Fight Mexican Drug Cartels

Aid package would signal new level of cooperation

Aug 8, 07 1:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Bush administration will send hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to Mexico to combat drug cartels in a deal that's on the verge of approval, the Washington Post reports. The package, which would include equipment and training for anti-drug teams, represents a new level of cooperation. "The... More »

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Bush administration • drugs • Mexico • Felipe Calderon • Colombia • Mexican drug war • drug cartel

UK Asks US to Release Gitmo Suspects

Brown wants 5 Britons freed from US custody in change of policy

Aug 7, 07 4:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - The United Kingdom wants the US to let go of five British residents detained at the terrorist detention camp at Guantanamo Bay. Green PM Gordon Brown made the official request, hinting that he may be distancing himself from the Bush administration and carving a more independent terror policy than Tony... More »

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Bush administration • Tony Blair • terrorism • United Kingdom • State Department • Gordon Brown • Guantanamo Bay • prisoners • terrorist • foreign policy • Britain

Bush Aide Stonewalls Senators

Rove snubs Judiciary Committee; 29-year-old staffer pleads for sympathy

Aug 2, 07 3:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - Karl Rove didn't show up, but the White House sent a 29-year-old aide to field Senate Judiciary Committee questions about the US attorney firings today. Scott Jennings, the first administration figure to testify while still in office, followed the path laid out by ex-boss Sara Taylor in refusing to answer... More »

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Bush administration • Congress • Karl Rove • Senate • White House • Sara Taylor • Patrick Leahy • executive privilege • Judiciary Committee • US attorney firings • Scott Jennings • scandal

Cheney: 'I Erred on Insurgency'

VP doesn't back off other Iraq, Afghanistan decisions

Aug 1, 07 5:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Dick Cheney admitted yesterday that he was wrong when he said the Iraqi insurgency was "in its last throes" in 2005. "My estimate at the time was wrong, it turned out to be incorrect," the VP told CNN's Larry King. He said he had been optimistic that... More »

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Iraq • Bush administration • Dick Cheney • insurgents • Larry King • vice president • al-Qaeda • Iraq war

Bush Buddy Squelched Health Report

Appointee suppressed surgeon general's unfavorable paper

Jul 29, 07 1:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Bush appointee spiked a 2006 surgeon general's report on global health issues for not promoting the administration's policy efforts, WaPo reports. Richard Steiger, an HHS official and longtime Bush family friend, suppressed a report urging Americans to take on global health problems, and discussed connections between poverty and illness. More »

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Bush administration • health • illness • poverty • global health • Richard Steiger • Surgeon General

Saudi King
Backs Iraq's Sunni Rebels

Ally undermining Bush strategy and fledgling government

Jul 27, 07 6:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Saudi Arabia is working at cross purposes with the Bush administration in Iraq by backing Sunni tribes engaged in sectarian violence there, the New York Times reports. King Abdullah has funded the Sunnis and is allowing insurgents to enter the country, US officials charge. Of up to 80 foreign fighters... More »

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Iraq • Bush administration • Saudi Arabia • sectarian violence • Sunni • insurgents • King Abdullah • Nouri al-Maliki • Iraq war

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