Former President George W. Bush has issued a response following the death of Colin Powell, who served as his first Secretary of State. “Laura and I are deeply saddened by the death of Colin Powell. He was a great public servant, starting with his time as a soldier during Vietnam,†Bush said in a statement,…
Former President George W. Bush criticized the Republican Party for its lack of inclusivity, saying that if the GOP stands for “White Anglo-Saxon Protestantism, then it’s not going to win anything.†Bush made the remark in a podcast interview with The Dispatch last week in response to a question about hard-right Republicans’ discussions about creating an…
Former President George W. Bush criticized the Republican Party, saying the party in its current form is both “nativist” and “isolationist.” “It’s not exactly my vision†for the party,” Bush said in an interview with NBC, calling the party “isolationist, protectionist, and to a certain extent, nativist.” “I think if the emphasis is integrity and…
Former Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama are urging all Americans to get vaccinated against Covid-19 as part of a new ad campaign. Former President Donald Trump is the only one who did not take part. The four former living presidents talk about the things they’ve missed as a result…
From Richard Nixon to Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump, the GOP has long presented itself as the party of “law and order.” The last time a large-scale terrorist attack occurred on US soil, George W. Bush was President. In September of 2001, Bush told Congress, “Our war on terror begins with Al Qaeda, but it…
Writing in 1782, in the aftermath of the American Revolution, Thomas Paine exclaimed, “We are now really another people.†What Paine meant, in part, was that the new republican form of government required a new and different kind of person, a new kind of citizen. People were used to being subjects of the Crown, ruled…
Alumni from the campaigns of the last three Republican presidential candidates have come out in support of Joe Biden with more than 100 backing the Democrat. Staffers who worked for President George W. Bush, Senator John McCain and Senator Mitt Romney have declared their support for the former Vice President. Bush 43 Alumni for Biden…
When long-serving and revered lawmakers pass away, it is customary for past and current Presidents to attend the funeral. This hasn’t been the case with Donald Trump. At the request of the family, Trump was not invited to the funeral of legendary Republican John McCain. While Trump did attend the services for former President George…
Hundreds of former officials who served under George W. Bush are about to endorse Joe Biden for president, according to new reporting from Reuters. They would be the latest conservatives to do so. Former officials who served under the Republican president from 2001 to 2009 have formed a political action committee called 43 for Alumni…
A former economic advisor to President Ronald Reagan thinks Condoleezza Rice would be an ideal vice president for Joe Biden. Rice is the most novel suggestion yet. Economics professor Laurence Kotlikoff argues in an op-ed in The Hill newspaper that Rice is the best choice for Biden. Rice was secretary of state under George W. Bush. “[G]given…
A new super PAC, called 43 Alumni for Biden, has been formed by former staffers of George W. Bush, according to paperwork submitted earlier this week. The news comes just days after the former president issued a statement along with his wife, former First Lady Laura Bush, calling for Americans to unify as protests grip…
Former President and First Lady George W. and Laura Bush issued a statement on the riots that echoed Joe Biden’s language of empathy and unity.
George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st president of the United States died Friday night at the age of 94 at his Houston home. Bush was the son of a U.S. Senator and served his country first as a World War II fighter pilot and later as a congressman, an ambassador to the United Nations and…
According to a new poll from the Democracy Project two out of three Americans believe that democracy is getting weaker in America. The poll also confirmed that a vast majority of Americans consider it very important to live in a democracy, Republicans were evenly divided on whether or not democracy in the U.S. is getting…
Yesterday we reported that President Donald Trump will not be invited to attend the funeral for American Hero John McCain, whenever it might occur. (The Arizona Republican Senator has brain cancer and his health is worsening every day.) The same thing happened recently when former First Lady Barbara Bush passed away, and the sitting president…
By many measures, George W. Bush could’ve gone down as one of America’s worst presidents. But Trump’s presidency has seemingly saved him from this fate.
“He is not a king! He is a president in a constitutional model of government.”
The whiny response from the White House comes after both Bushes confirmed that they had not voted for Trump in last year’s election, calling the president a “blowhard.”
The two former presidents think that Trump is a “blowhard” who is destroying the GOP. Both men also suggested Trump doesn’t have a clue what it means to be the leader of the free world.
Former President George W. Bush called out the Trump era without naming names, saying on Thursday, “Bigotry seems emboldened. Our politics seems more vulnerable to conspiracy theories and outright fabrication.”
Biographer David Maraniss has a great idea. The author is urging all five living former presidents to issue a joint statement calling on racist Donald Trump to resign.
Trump and North Korea is an eerily frightening reiteration of the Bush administration’s fear-mongering about Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.
“We need an independent media to hold people like me to account…it’s important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power.â€
The new data comes days after Trump took aim at the polls, calling them “fake news” if they find that he or his policies are unpopular.
To make matters worse, Trump’s approval rating now stands where George W. Bush’s did after Hurricane Katrina.
President Obama took the plan out of commission and described it “not only as out-of-date but also an inefficient waste of resources.â€
As Hurricane Trump picks up steam on its way to the White House, the American people are coming to grips with just how good things have been under Barack Obama.
The British government’s Iraq Inquiry finds that “the timing of military action was driven entirely by the US administration.”
Feel free to laugh: “I gravitate to facts, logic, and reality, whereas to me, liberalism is based on theory, and feelings, and fantasy.”
Antonin Scalia is dead and Republicans have responded by completely tearing their party apart.
Jeb Bush looks to his brother to be a lightning rod, turning any Trump attack into a backlash of negativity against the virtual reality star
Jeb Bush thinks his brother George Bush got a raw deal as president. He thinks they should have fought back harder against the bad press in the last three years of Bush’s presidency.
After invoking his status as a National Rifle Association hero, Jeb brought up GOP overreach in the case of Terri Schiavos
Ted Cruz being persecuted for telling the truth like Jesus? The truth is, Rafael Cruz is the Father of Lies, because that’s all Ted does
Marco Rubio wants to blame Obama for inaction, but it was the action of George W. Bush that drove North Korea to develop nuclear weapons
The Republican Party has made politics a celebration of literally knowing nothing about anything, but feeling very strongly about it
Krugman says the GOP establishment is determined “to take whatever didn’t work from 2001 to 2008 and do it again in a more extreme form”
Trump is simply a reiteration of Bush; the man who contributed to the dumbing down of America so maniacal conservatives could appear sane
Bush’s response to 9/11 played directly into Osama bin Laden’s hands and provided a recruiting tool groups like ISIS could not exist without
The GOP talks about “taking our country back” and “making America great again” but they propose to do this by going back in time, not forward
Few Americans would object to a bust honoring Dick Cheney if it noted his part in creating a more radical form of Islamic terrorism
The RNC would have you believe only Republicans can keep you safe, but the facts dating back to 2001 show the opposite to be true
It is incredibly ironic that the one American ally that vehemently protested and condemned Bush’s invasion and occupation of Iraq has now felt the horrific results of terrorists created by Bush’s folly in attacking and slaughtering hundreds-of-thousands of innocent Muslims, and creating the Islamic State.
Republicans have about as much use for America’s veterans as they do America’s poor, women, people of color and the elderly
The two men got worked up over armed EPA agents, ignoring of course the threat of armed anti-government conservatives like Cliven Bundy
Bush’s family gathering is a last ditch effort to save Jeb’s under-performing campaign, but the optics couldn’t be worse.
Trump is shining a light on exactly what Americans have to look forward to if they elect a Republican president; foreign policy incompetence
Jeb Bush pulled off an epic faceplant on CNN when he was was asked why he blames President Obama and Hillary Clinton for Benghazi, but doesn’t his brother for 9/11.
Fiorina’s claim that “waterboarding was used when there was no other way to get information that was necessary” contradicts the evidence
The Bush administration used a terror attack on American soil to rack up a $6 trillion debt for two wars and are now plotting another one
The mainstream media is not reporting the continuing cost of military action against an extremist organization created by George W. Bush
Bush decides to self-destruct on the Iraq War by saying it was a “good deal” and that America needs to show Iraq it has “skin in the game”
Former national security adviser Brent Snowcroft says rejecting the Iran deal “is an abdication of America’s unique role and responsibility”
“Big syllable words and lots of fancy conferences and meetings and – We’re not leading. That creates chaos. It creates a more dangerous world”
Republicans like to blame Obama, but Bush had already created ISIL, and Obama cannot un-create them, because Obama cannot un-invade Iraq
The privatization scam amounts to a yearly-issued, and set amount, coupon to purchase healthcare services at a private hospital or doctor’s office, or use as a discount card to purchase a private insurance policy.
Nearly seven years after the American economy foundered under the worst global recession since World War II, it seems nothing much has changed with regard to the behavior of those that brought us collectively to the brink.
Having a discussion will not change the disastrous consequences of Bush and company’s crimes, bring back the three-quarters of a million dead Iraqi civilians or thousands of American soldiers, it may inform Americans of the intent of Republicans defending the invasion and occupation.
As Jeb has reminded us, Dubya is our problem, not his. Or Gohmert’s. Or the Republican Party’s, it seems
Sanders’ positive campaign is refreshing, and he is avoiding the strategic errors committed by the Ralph Nader 2000 insurgent campaign.
It is hard to believe Jeb Bush really wants to be president, with the things he says. Maybe it’s just that he’s missing a Dick Cheney of his own
During a CBN interview, Jeb Bush suggested that the only way to fight poverty in America was to defend traditional marriage.
On Thursday, Bush finally relented and joined others in the GOP field in admitting that the Iraq War was a mistake.
The invasion of Iraq and its bungled aftermath created millions of refugees. Rand Paul doesn’t think the United States owes them anything
Instead of acknowledging the Iraq invasion as a colossal intelligence failure, Jeb is still a cheerleader for the Iraq War.
Jeb Bush admitted that his brother, former President George W. Bush, was his most trusted adviser on U.S.-Israel policy.
On Thursday, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the NSA’s bulk collection of telephone metadata is illegal under current law.
Bill Maher schooled Republicans on their foreign policy failures while delivering a lesson on President Obama’s successes.
In an interview with the National Review’s Rich Lowry, Jeb Bush confessed to being a fan of Charles Murray’s books.
It is true, George W. Bush is hapless, but he is also an idiot for not recognizing his own failures as president and in fact actually regards himself as a raging success.
Jeb Bush has dipped to 4th place in a recent poll, and he also seems to be losing out to other candidates on the fundraising front.
There is no person in America as self-aggrandizing as Senator Lindsey Graham whose self-imposed image as a brilliant foreign policy and international relations genius informs him he can be president.
President Barack Obama plans to visit the Florida Everglades on Wednesday to highlight the urgency of tackling climate change.
While Jeb Bush is often portrayed by the media as the “moderate” Republican candidate, there is nothing moderate about his proposal to raise the social security retirement age.
The current President, Barack Obama, will go down in history for providing tens-of-millions of Americans with access to affordable health care, restoring diplomatic relations with Cuba, an historic climate change deal with China, and with the stroke of his pen, ceding executive branch authority over foreign policy to a Congress loyal to a foreign national.
The Religious Right thinks, despite all the evidence, that doubling down on anti-gay bigotry will have better results than Indiana
Bush’s attempt to claim himself to be “Hispanic” only furthers the rift between him and anti-immigrant Nativists in the Republican Party.
According to a recent headline, Fox News is the most watched cable news channel – for the 159th month in a row, which makes 13 years, 3 months of ratings dominence. Cue the balloon drop and confetti cannons. Whoop-dee-doo!
John Bolton’s New York Times op-ed exposes not only Bolton’s flawed thinking but the Times’ tendency to ape Fox News
Bush is right about one thing. This is no time for schoolyard antics. Bush and his fellow Republicans ought to stop engaging in them.
Even if they put Jeb Bush at the top of the ticket, Republicans are in obvious danger of losing Florida once again.
“I am running for president and I hope to earn your support,” Ted Cruz tweeted last night. Does he really think he can get it?
Major Gen. Paul D. Eaton stopped short of calling Cotton and 46 Republicans traitors. As a career military man Eaton used the appropriate label for Cotton’s lack of ethics and knowledge of his place as a congressional representative.
Attempts to link Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Syria with Cotton’s Iran letter, fail, as Pelosi was even briefed by the White House before she went
The truth, and true purpose of the letter, has really never been in question; specifically because the filthy little neo-con who originated it has broadcast the purpose for the world to hear for months.
John Boehner missed the Selma 50th Anniversary commemoration because he was attending two fundraising events in California resort towns.
Jeb Bush can look at an Iraq wracked by civil war and marauding barbarians, and somehow imagine that America power is a force for good.
This week a MoveOn.org petition began circulating for the purpose of prosecuting Speaker of the House John A. Boehner for willfully breaking a federal law when he knowingly violated the 216 year-old Logan Act.
On Monday, Maryland Democratic Senator Barbara Mikulski announced that she planned to retire rather than seek re-election in 2016.
Republicans were so certain that if they allowed the Koch brothers to buy them control of Congress, no matter how extreme their new allies were, they would show Americans what it means to govern Republican style. Thus far they have failed miserably due to ceding control of the party to Koch-funded extremists who are more than willing to endanger the homeland and the American people to prove they hate President Obama.
Now they are lining up at the annual Aryan-sponsored conservative conclave to accuse the President of all manner of malfeasance in cleaning up and dealing with George W. Bush’s religious crusade in Iraq that engendered the rise of Islamic extremists known as the Islamic State (IS, ISIS, ISIL).
U.S. District Judge James R. Spencer sentenced former Virginia First Lady, Maureen McDonnell, to just 12 months plus one day in prison.
Despite his pronouncement that he intends to be “his own man”, Jeb Bush is surrounding himself with former Bush foreign policy advisers.
A George W. Bush appointed judge ignored the Constitution while substituting his own policy whims in ruling that blocked President Obama’s immigration executive order.
The new Republican-dominated Congress has proven unable to pass significant legislation. So far they have passed just two bills into law.
You might remember how John Boehner went all Stepford-like on Fox News Sunday and screamed that he was going to shutdown Homeland Security, and oh by the way it’s all Obama’s fault? If you didn’t watch the entire interview, you missed a few other Boehner nuggets. This is what Boehner is saying, that his interview…
Some people may errantly conclude that Republicans, as typical conservatives, are so set in their ways they are naturally unwilling to change, but although that is a very accurate conclusion, it is not the case when it comes to the nation’s deficit.
The point is that all Christians should advocate and revere the truth with religious fervor; unless it is uttered by President Barack Obama at which point they “can’t handle the truth.”
Jeb Bush is marketing himself as a different kind of conservative, but his ideas support the same GOP policies that have failed before.
Every one of the Koch Republicans, and their oily Democratic cohorts, who voted to approve a State Department construction permit for TransCanada to build the KeystoneXL pipeline across America’s international border with Canada are guilty of violating the Constitution’s long-standing Separation of Powers.
