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August 2008
- Cheney Likely to Skip GOP Convention
  
  CNN | Aug 5, 08 5:23 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - John McCain’s desire to keep his distance from the Bush Administration is expected to keep Dick Cheney away from the Republican Convention, say GOP officials. There is a “mutual understanding” between Cheney and McCain’s staffs that the unpopular VP is “unlikely” to attend, one official noted, though another said the two teams are “trying to work it out.” More »
July 2008
- Insiders' Pick as McCain Running Mate: Portman
  
  Washington Post | Jul 29, 08 2:12 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Ex-Congressman and ex-OMB director Rob Portman has much to offer John McCain as a running mate, writes Washington Post blogger Chris Cillizza. "If Washington-based political operatives picked the vice president, Portman would have it hands down" because he's "that rare breed of politician who is equally conversant—and skilled—at policy and politics." More »
- 'Creative' Bush Order Shields Cheney from Plame Probe
  
  Newsweek | Jul 17, 08 3:07 AM CDT
  
  (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 »
- Snow Was 'the Best': Cheney
  
  Time | Jul 13, 08 2:41 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Tony Snow, economic policy, veepstakes, and the Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae crisis sparked conversation on the Sunday talk show circuit today. Time sums them up: Fox News Sunday paid homage to late newscaster and press secretary Tony Snow; Dick Cheney called him "the best" he's known. Arnold Shwarzenegger applauded John McCain's bipartisanship and Iraq policy on This Week , but dismissed the idea of working at a McCain White House . More »
- Bush Library Donors Gain Access to Rice and Cheney
  
  Times (UK) | Jul 12, 08 7:52 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - An undercover probe has confirmed rumors that donors to President Bush's $200 million library are gaining access to his inner circle, the London Times reports. Bush lobbyist Stephen Payne offered an undercover reporter face-to-face meetings with Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice, among others, for payments of $600,000 to $750,000. “Cheney’s possible, definitely the national security adviser" Stephen Hadley, Payne said. More »
- Israel to US: Iran Threat Bigger Than You Think
  
  Jerusalem Post (Israel) | Jul 11, 08 9:11 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - In the wake of Iranian missile tests, Israel’s defense minister will visit the US for talks next week to press the case that Tehran poses a serious nuclear threat, the Jerusalem Post reports. Yesterday, Ehud Barak suggested that Israel is ready to attack. "We have proven in the past that we are not deterred from acting when our vital interests are at stake." More »
- Rove: Obama Copying My Strategy, With Nod to Nixon
  
  Wall Street Journal | Jul 10, 08 11:53 AM CDT
  
  (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 »
- Cheney's Staff Cut Testimony on Climate: EPA Official
  
  Associated Press | Jul 8, 08 3:28 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Aides to Vice President Dick Cheney censored congressional testimony on climate change by a top government official, a former official at the Environmental Protection Agency charges. Jason Burnett claims Cheney’s office, fearing testimony would lead to greater regulation of greenhouse gases, excised six pages of text regarding the health risks of global warming by the director of the Centers for Disease Control last fall, the AP reports. More »
- Washington's War Drums Beating Loudly
  
  Washington Post | Jul 3, 08 10:25 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Is Washington, or its Israeli allies, really ready to attack Iran? "The threats, counterthreats, and counter-counterthreats … have reached new levels of hysteria in recent days," Dana Milbank writes in the Washington Post . Rumblings of an Israeli strike prompted Tehran threats to close oil-shipping lanes. That would be an “act of war,” declared one US admiral—a statement superiors didn't back down from. More »
- McCain Adviser Black Has Friends in Low Places
  
  Wall Street Journal | Jul 2, 08 11:15 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Senior campaign adviser Charlie Black drew fire recently when he suggested that a terror attack would help John McCain, but maybe we shouldn’t have been so surprised. Black’s past is littered with questionable associations, Thomas Frank writes in the Wall Street Journal , with comrades from a 1970s young-conservatives group having chalked up quite a questionable record in the years since. More »
June 2008
- Cheney's Brain Smug, Evasive in Testimony
  
  Washington Post | Jun 27, 08 11:30 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Dick Cheney’s chief of staff David Addington has long lurked in the shadows of the Bush administration, building its view of the imperial presidency, writes Dana Milbank of the Washington Post . But yesterday, “Cheney’s Cheney” was forced to step into the light and testify before Congress—and he wasn’t pleased. “Addington’s unbridled hostility was live and unfiltered yesterday,” Milbank writes. More »
- McCain Pander on Drilling Disappoints
  
  New York Times | Jun 20, 08 8:30 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - It's nothing new for the Bush administration to blame environmentalists for energy shortages, writes Paul Krugman in the New York Times . As early as 2001, Dick Cheney blamed green laws rather than rapacious energy companies for the California electricity shortage. But it's disappointing that John McCain has joined the bandwagon—especially as he, unlike Barack Obama, voted against Bush's "really terrible, special-interest-driven" 2005 energy bill. More »
- For Beleaguered W. and Gordo, a Merry Old Time
  
  New York Times | Jun 18, 08 9:00 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - George W. Bush was in "one of his oddly chipper moods" during his awkward final trip to London, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd observes—but why? Perhaps, she opines half facetiously, "W. simply feels more at home in a monarchy" after years spent confessing to "Torquemada Cheney." Or maybe it's that he got to hang out with Gordon Brown, one of few world leaders "more unpopular than he is." More »
- Gay Daughter No Problem for Mass. Governor
  
  Boston Globe | Jun 13, 08 2:23 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - For some politicians—Dick Cheney, say, or Alan Keyes—a gay daughter might be a major inconvenience. But the public coming-out yesterday of Katherine Patrick, daughter of supportive Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, is being praised as a "very powerful statement" by gay-rights groups, and the low-key nature of how Katherine Patrick's sexuality was made public—in a Massachusetts GLBT weekly—was hailed for its sensibility. More »
- Democrats Balk at Obama's Donation Ban
  
  Politico | Jun 10, 08 3:27 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Barack Obama won't accept contributions from lobbyists and PACs, but the rest of his party is unlikely to follow suit, reports Politico. Democratic lobbyists and fundraisers are outraged that the donations they secure are automatically considered suspect, while Senate and House candidates simply need the cash to compete. "You really have to look under every rock," a House aide says of fundraising. More »
- Kucinich Moves to Impeach Bush
  
  Politico | Jun 10, 08 6:00 AM CDT

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Cheney Likely to Skip GOP Convention

Insiders' Pick as McCain Running Mate: Portman

'Creative' Bush Order Shields Cheney from Plame Probe

Snow Was 'the Best': Cheney

Bush Library Donors Gain Access to Rice and Cheney

Israel to US: Iran Threat Bigger Than You Think

Rove: Obama Copying My Strategy, With Nod to Nixon

Cheney's Staff Cut Testimony on Climate: EPA Official

Washington's War Drums Beating Loudly

McCain Adviser Black Has Friends in Low Places

Cheney's Brain Smug, Evasive in Testimony

McCain Pander on Drilling Disappoints

For Beleaguered W. and Gordo, a Merry Old Time

Gay Daughter No Problem for Mass. Governor

Democrats Balk at Obama's Donation Ban

Kucinich Moves to Impeach Bush