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June 2009
- Bush Sr. Plans 85th-Birthday Skydive
  
  Associated Press | Jun 9, 09 3:30 PM CDT
  
  (AP) - Former President George H.W. Bush plans to celebrate his 85th birthday Friday by making a parachute jump in Maine, where he has his summer home. An aide said today that Bush will make a tandem jump with a member of the US Army Golden Knights parachute team. Their landing zone is near a church in Kennebunkport. More »
May 2009
- Obama Overrules the Overruling of State Laws
  
  Washington Post | May 22, 09 8:03 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - President Obama is rewriting another set of rules inherited from his predecessor. This time, the Washington Post reports, it’s President Bush’s policy of overriding state laws with federal regulations, known as “preemption.” Says an activist, “It's environmental law, it's drug law, it's mortgage law, it's a whole host of areas where the Bush administration was really aggressive about using regulatory action to clear state and local laws that businesses and corporations didn't like.” More »
- Bush Likes His 'Liberating' New Life in the Burbs
  
  Associated Press | May 22, 09 6:46 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Being wrist-deep in dog poo makes a nice change of pace from being neck-deep in responsibilities, George W. Bush told a group of New Mexico high school seniors yesterday. Bush, in one of his few public appearances since leaving office, said it felt liberating to be out of the Oval Office and returning to normal life in suburbia, AP reports. More »
- Gonzales Back in DC for White House Scribes' Shindig
  
  Washington Post | May 8, 09 2:18 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Alberto Gonzales will attend tomorrow’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, the Washington Post reports. Gonzales, a guest of the Houston Chronicle , will be hard-pressed to avoid members of a new administration that has all but vilified his actions as Bush attorney general. But, for a man under investigation both for the firing of US attorneys and legalizing torture, the dinner may be a chance to relive the good old days. More »
- Fleischer: Subpoena Me —I Dare You
  
  Vanity Fair | May 1, 09 12:07 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer doesn’t think there should be an investigation of his boss’s torture program. But “I’ll be proud to testify if I get a subpoena,” he said during a panel discussion yesterday. “I’m proud of what we did to protect this country.” When a fellow panelist suggested a special prosecutor, Vanity Fair reports, Fleischer shot back, “That assumes a crime has been committed.” More »
April 2009
- For Bush Veterans, DC Jobs Are Scarce
  
  Politico | Apr 30, 09 9:15 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Former Bush administration staffers are feeling the economic pinch as acutely as other victims of the sagging economy, Politico reports. GOP job-seekers in Washington face a triple whammy of economic chaos, minority status on Capitol Hill, and an excess of qualified Republicans. “The Washington side is a bit of a black hole because there are so many people with so much experience looking and the economy’s so tight,” said one 14-year DC veteran. More »
- Obama Open to Interrogations Probe
  
  Politico | Apr 21, 09 12:32 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - President Obama today said he’d be open to the idea of creating a panel to investigate the Bush administration’s interrogation methods in the war on terror. Obama and his aides have been dismissing the idea for weeks, but today in a press conference with King Abdullah of Jordan, Obama sounded amenable, provided it was “done in a bipartisan fashion, outside the typical hearing process that can sometimes break entirely along party lines.” More »
- Bush's Simpler New Life Has No Talk of 'L Word' (Legacy)
  
  Washington Post | Apr 11, 09 12:38 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - President Bush began his new life in an "insulated bubble" the day he left Washington toting a plane of teary-eyed friends watching a rosy video tribute on the Bush era. Low approval ratings? Bah. "He lives squarely in the remaining 33%" who supported him, writes Washington Post's Eli Saslow in a lengthy look at Bush's post-presidential world. More »
- Shoe-Chucker Gets Reduced Sentence
  
  BBC | Apr 7, 09 11:50 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Muntadar al-Zaidi, famous for throwing his shoes at former President Bush, has been granted an appeal that cuts his prison time from 3 years to 1, the BBC reports. A court of appeals agreed with Zaidi’s lawyers that the Iraqi journalist deserves a charge of insulting—rather than assaulting—a foreign leader, and changed his sentence accordingly. The judge also took Zaidi’s youth and lack of prior convictions into consideration. More »
March 2009
- Check It Out: Bush Strikes $7M Book Deal
  
  New York Post | Mar 19, 09 9:00 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The Decider, aka George W. Bush, will write a book titled Decision Points, the New York Post reports. The former president's rumored advance for the book, due out in 2010, is $7 million. That’s $5 million short of Bill Clinton’s deal for My Life, $1 million less than Hillary Clinton got for Living History, and $2 million shy of Tony Blair’s advance, Gawker reports. Ouch. More »
- Shoe Hurler Gets 3 Years in Prison
  
  Guardian (UK) | Mar 12, 09 5:24 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at George W. Bush during a Baghdad press conference has been sentenced to three years in prison, the Guardian reports. Muntadar al-Zaidi had pleaded not guilty to charges of assaulting a foreign head of state, saying his actions were "a natural response to the occupation." His family erupted in anger at the decision, delivered in a Green Zone court normally used for terrorism cases. More »
- Bushies Work to Salvage Boss' Rep
  
  Politico | Mar 11, 09 1:25 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Two months out of office, President Bush rarely warrants mention these days, but his old aides quietly work at rebuilding his reputation, reports Politico. “We’re invited to comment on the events of the day and along the way, we remind people that there was, indeed, good news under President Bush,” says former flack Ari Fleischer. “We believe that history will get it right in the end,” adds Dana Perino. More »
February 2009
- Bush on Brink, Says Tabloid
  
  Globe | Feb 18, 09 2:20 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Former President George W. Bush is “depressed and paranoid,” even “suicidal,” proclaims the tabloid glossy the Globe . Yes, “insiders fear” that the erstwhile leader of the free world will terminate himself: He’s “boozing up a storm,” and is “terrified of Barack Obama” and—heaven forbid!—“his own wife Laura.” Don’t miss the “blockbuster world exclusive.” More »
- Bush Faithful Rewarded With Plum Jobs
  
  Washington Post | Feb 10, 09 8:39 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - The Bush presidency lives on through more than 100 end-of-term appointments to a wide range of presidential panels, the Washington Post reports. The positions, many of which will outlast his successor's current term, have gone to George Bush's aides and political donors. Most are unpaid, although four top aides snagged jobs at a World Bank agency paying up to $3,000 a day. More »
- No Misunderestimating Ferrell as Dubya
  
  New York Times | Feb 6, 09 1:05 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - It’s not quite a landslide, but critics mainly agree that Will Ferrell gets his mission accomplished in lampooning the 43rd president with his Broadway show, You’re Welcome America. A Final Night With George W. Bush . Though Saturday Night Live viewers will see the “retread” in Ferrell’s “loopy extrapolation” on Bush, Ben Brantley writes in the New York Times , “the show feels freshest when he goes off on surreal tangents that transport his blundering hero into the ether of pure absurdism.” More »
January 2009
- Bush Gets Misty-Eyed During Anthem
  
  Huffington Post | Jan 30, 09 12:30 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - In his first public appearance since Barack Obama’s inauguration, George W. Bush took in a women’s basketball game Wednesday at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, about 25 miles from their Crawford ranch. Bush received applause when he and Laura walked onto the court, and seemed to almost tear up while the national anthem was played, the AP reports. More »
- Bush's Cheesy War Cuts French Farmers
  
  Washington Post | Jan 29, 09 8:37 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - On its way out the door, the Bush administration essentially banned France’s prized Roquefort cheese from US shelves with a 300% tariff. The move was a tit-for-tat after the EU banned the import of US beef containing hormones, said a US trade rep. But residents of the cheese-dependent Roquefort region, where 4,500 people herd special sheep, say they’ve been unfairly targeted, the Washington Post reports. More »
- At RNC, Change Means Bashing Bush
  
  Washington Post | Jan 28, 09 12:18 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - In deciding on a new chairman, Republican National Committee members are wrestling with ambivalence about George W. Bush, the Washington Post reports. Incumbent Mike Duncan, appointed by the former president, faces something of a backlash. Duncan “never criticized Bush when the president was wrong,” says one member. “He’s the agent of the establishment, and we need a change in personnel.” More »
- Bush Rejected Pardons for Milken, Other 'High Rollers'
  
  Los Angeles Times | Jan 27, 09 3:00 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - George Bush formally denied pardons for several prominent politicians and businessmen on his last day in office, the Justice Department told the Los Angeles Times today. Among those whose pleas fell on deaf ears were Michael Milken, a businessman convicted of insider trading and stock evasion, and Randall Cunningham, a Congressman who pleaded guilty to taking bribes in 2006. More »
- Gitmo Detainee Files a Mess
  
  Washington Post | Jan 25, 09 6:12 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - The case files of many Gitmo detainees are incomplete, disorganized, or strewn around the executive branch, complicating President Barack Obama’s plan to close down the detention center, reports the Washington Post . Incoming officials discovered the chaos when given access after the inauguration. One former official says he sometimes had to threaten to release prisoners to force the CIA to "cough up a sentence or two." More »