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Bush Still Gonzo For Alberto

Senate testimony "increased my confidence," says President

Apr 24, 07 7:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush is sticking with his beleaguered attorney general despite negative reviews of his performance at last week's Senate hearing from both sides of the aisle. Bush said the testimony from Alberto Gonzales on the pink-slipped U.S. attorneys, roundly characterized as evasive, "increased my confidence in his ability.... More »

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Bush administration • Alberto Gonzales • Senate hearings • Congressional investigations • Attorney General • US attorneys scandal • George W. Bush

Impeachment: Not Just For Presidents   

It would be perfect
for Gonzales, says
law professor

Apr 13, 07 1:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - Impeachment isn't just for presidents—it would suit Alberto Gonzales just fine, says law professor Peter Shane, and it would be an excellent way to restore constitutional checks and balances. The grounds for impeachment go beyond the questionable dismissal of U.S. attorneys, he writes.  More »

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Bush administration • Alberto Gonzales • US attorney • Attorney General • impeachment • scandal

Four Years of Rove E-mails
Go Missing

E-mails may have covered attorney firings

Apr 13, 07 8:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Four years of emails from Karl Rove that are being sought in a congressional investigation are missing and may have been deleted by Rove himself, the Republican National Committee acknowledged yesterday. The RNC operates the server for non-official e-mail accounts Rove and other White House players use for political business;... More »

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Bush administration • US attorney • Karl Rove • politics • Congressional investigations • RNC • email • US attorneys scandal • executive privilege • scandal

(Newser) - Freezing accounts in a small bank in Macau 18 months ago was key to the recent U.S. success in negotiating an end to North Korea's nuclear program, the Journal reports. Tracing the "saga of bluff and brinkmanship" that led to the deal, the Journal shows the Bush... More »

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Bush administration • North Korea • Bill Richardson • Macau • nuclear program

Generals Reject War Post

Apr 12, 07 8:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - Three retired generals declined when asked by the White House to fill a new post to run the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Guardian reports. One candidate, Marine General John Sheehan, told the Washington Post he turned down the war czar job because hawkish Vice President Dick Cheney still... More »

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Iraq • Afghanistan • Bush administration • John Sheehan • Election 2008 • Iraq war

Congress Probes Private White House E-Mails

May have breached post-Watergate law

Apr 10, 07 8:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - Use of private e-mail accounts by White House officials is being probed by Democratic lawmakers who charge that they were employed to avoid scrutiny. Accounts set up by the Republican National Committee are intended to keep political activities separate from official business, but they were used in planning the firings... More »

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Bush administration • Karl Rove • politics • RNC • Watergate • Henry Waxman • BlackBerry • scandal

Regent Grads Score Big On Bush Team

Christian law school
has direct route into Justice Department

Apr 10, 07 7:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Regent University, the evangelical college founded by Pat Robertson that  graduated disgraced Gonzales aide Monica Goodling, has quietly become a huge source of like-minded talent for the Bush administration: Despite its marginal academic credentials, 150 Regent University alumni have been placed in federal positions since 2001. More »

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Bush administration • Christianity • Monica Goodling • Attorney General • John Ashcroft • Regent University • Pat Robertson

Immigration Reform Back On
Bush Agenda

Even with Democrats more receptive, plan will be tough sell

Apr 9, 07 1:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush is making another run at immigration reform, armed with the hope that the Democratic Congress will be more receptive than his own party was last year. In Arizona today Bush will reintroduce a package that sounds suspiciously like his earlier attempt: increased border security, better enforcement of immigration... More »

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Bush administration • Nancy Pelosi • immigration • Congress • Democrats • illegal immigrant • border control • Arizona • reform • George W. Bush

Third Gonzales
Aide Resigns

Monica Goodling resigns after
declining to testify on dismissals
of U.S. attorneys

Apr 7, 07 7:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - Gonzales aide Monica Goodling resigned yesterday, a little more than a week after she plead the fifth rather than testify before a Senate committee about the Justice Department's firing of eight U.S. attorneys, the Times reports. Democrats had hoped Goodling, who was Justice's liaison to  the White House, would... More »

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Bush administration • Alberto Gonzales • Department of Justice • US attorney • Karl Rove • Democrats • Monica Goodling • White House

Pelosi Is Doing Bush's Job

Someone had to.

Apr 6, 07 9:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Taylor Marsh defends Pelosi's visit to Syria on the grounds that if Bush won't talk to Assad someone has to.  It turns out that all Syria wants is some R-E-S-P-E-C-T.  And Marsh makes the case that this is a good thing for America to be doing. More »

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Bush administration • Nancy Pelosi • Congress • Syria

Swift Boater Gets Recess Appointment

Bush slips three controversial conservatives past Senate

Apr 5, 07 7:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush doled out three major recess appointments yesterday to  conservatives Democrats found distasteful. Ambassador to Belgium went to Sam Fox, a top-tier donor to Republican causes including Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the 527 that sank John Kerry’s shot at the White House. More »

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Bush administration • Belgium • Democrats • Republican • politics • John Kerry • recess appointment • Sam Fox • Swift Boat • OMB • Social Security • George W. Bush • Swift Boat Veterans for Truth • William Kristol

Support The Troops With
A War Tax

Dems should insist
on paying, not borrowing, for war

Apr 3, 07 4:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - If the Democrats want to support the troops but call the question on the war, they should pass a "war tax,"  writes Richard Hall in the Detroit Free Press. They could adopt the supplemental appropriations, but attach an income tax surcharge to finance it. Would the president... More »

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Iraq • Bush administration • Democrats • taxes • Detroit • war • US troops • Iraq war

Bush Staying the Course on Veto

President refuses to compromise on Iraq funding

Apr 3, 07 1:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Bush is staying the course in the war with Congress, ripping into "Democrat leaders" in a press conference today, and repeating his vow to veto any bills with troop withdrawal deadlines that crossed his desk. Congress, he said, is more clearly interested in fighting political battles than real ones. More »

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Iraq • Bush administration • War on Terror • Congress • Pentagon • Democrats • Republican • politics • presidential politics • veto • troop withdrawal • George W. Bush

Supreme Court Rejects Appeals From Gitmo Detainees

Win for Bush policy
on terror suspects

Apr 2, 07 12:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Supreme Court declined to hear the case of detainees at Guantanamo who challenged the constitutionality of  their confinement, the Washington Post  reports. The rejected appeal  questioned the validity of the military commissions law passed last year, and the legality of being held for more than five years with being... More »

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Bush administration • terrorism • prison • Guantanamo Bay • US Supreme Court • constitutionality

Thompson Joins Race for 2008

Claims he's the only real conservative
in the GOP field

Apr 2, 07 6:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - Former governor and Bush cabinet member Tommy Thompson announced  for president yesterday, staking a claim to the territory to the right of the other GOP contenders. "I am the reliable conservative, my record shows that,"  said the one-time secretary of Health and Human Services and four-term governor... More »

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Iraq • Bush administration • Middle East • Republican • health insurance • politics • Tommy Thompson • Health and Human Services • presidency • Wisconsin • Cabinet • presidential campaign • Election 2008 • George W. Bush

Mink: He's Merely a Pawn

Gonzales was Irrelevant even before the attorneys mess

Mar 29, 07 10:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - Who really cares if Alberto Gonzales resigns? Nobody but his family and friends, writes Eric Mink in the St. Louis Dispatch. Because Bush's embattled attorney general proved himself inconsequential long before the botched firings of the  insufficiently loyal U.S. attorneys. Congress learned how little clout the AG had when... More »

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Bush administration • Congress • Alberto Gonzales • US attorney • Attorney General • George W. Bush

Saudi King Calls Iraq War Illegal

Latest evidence of breach with ally

Mar 29, 07 8:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia fired a warning shot at the Bush administration yesterday, calling Iraq “an illegal foreign occupation” and urging Arab leaders to unite to prevent U.S. domination of the region.  The Saudis "are telling the U.S. they need to listen to their... More »

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Iraq • Iran • Bush administration • Middle East • Saudi Arabia • King Abdullah • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Riyadh • United States • war • boycott • Iraq war

Tony Snow's Cancer Recurs

Mar 28, 07 7:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - White House press secretary Tony Snow has cancer again, and this time it's spread to his liver. Doctors discovered the recurrence when they removed a  growth from his lower abdomen yesterday. Snow, who's 51, underwent surgery and chemotherapy for colon cancer two years ago. More »

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cancer • Bush administration • health • Tony Snow • White House • press • Fox

Bush Is Worse Than a Lame Duck

Mar 27, 07 10:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - The FT catalogs a litany of the obstacles for President Bush achieving anything meaningful in his last 22 months in office. At the core of it all is the Iraq war, which has reduced Bush’s popularity to the point where he has no more political capital to spend. More »

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Iraq • Bush administration • Congress • terrorism • Republican • politics • war • Walter Reed Army Medical Center • Iraq war • George W. Bush

Endangered Species May Get Bush Brush-Off

Internal memo
reveals plan to
reduce protection

Mar 27, 07 7:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Bush administration is quietly rewriting the rules on enforcing the Endangered Species Act, drafting changes that some environmentalists say will fatally weaken protections for threatened wildlife. A 117-page internal proposal obtained by Salon would limit which animals could be effectively protected, cut back on the size of habitats preserved,... More »

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Bush administration • endangered species • environmentalism • Endangered Species Act • wildlife • species • threatened species • animal

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