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george w. bush hasn't been seen or heard from, safe from a book tour and recent charity trip to africa for the past three years. the george w. bush era in the republican party everybody agrees is over at least for now. that's why republicans are having a hard time picking a presidential nominee. there are no inheritors of the george w. bush era in republican politics. at least they don't want to be seen that way. they're all saying they're reagan republicans or teddy roosevelt republicans. they may now want to be seen as calvin coolidge republicans or herbert hoover republicans? they'll be anything but none of these guys call themselves george w. bush republicans. and that's why it is so remarkable that the republican politics of the ending of the iraq war now are that the iraq war ought not end. that the real problem is that the troops are coming home in time for christmas. republicans, people running for president, elected officials, all of the conservative leading voices on issues like this,
george w. bush hasn't been seen or heard from, safe from a book tour and recent charity trip to africa for the past three years. the george w. bush era in the republican party everybody agrees is over at least for now. that's why republicans are having a hard time picking a presidential nominee. there are no inheritors of the george w. bush era in republican politics. at least they don't want to be seen that way. they're all saying they're reagan republicans or teddy roosevelt republicans. they...
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george w. bush got a new poodle. and we all got the iraq war. whatever you think of what tony blair did with his time in power, his rise to power was skilled, very skilled. and that skill was manifest in part with his triumph in the murdoch primary. josh marshall at the website talking points memos has been writing about this. he wrote about it this past summer and again today. the idea of the murdoch primary everybody talked about it and it's the real thing. you have to win rupert murdoch's endorsement if you want to win a national election. part of the reason britain has a conservative prime minister now when the conservative party in britain had been out in the wilderness since tony blair is because the current conservative leader you who see here, david cameron, he$rt win the murdoch primary. he got rupert murdoch and his media empire in britain to endorse the conservative party in the last election and that's part of why the toreys are now in power. in the united states at home there are influential rupert murdoch newspapers too. amazingly,
george w. bush got a new poodle. and we all got the iraq war. whatever you think of what tony blair did with his time in power, his rise to power was skilled, very skilled. and that skill was manifest in part with his triumph in the murdoch primary. josh marshall at the website talking points memos has been writing about this. he wrote about it this past summer and again today. the idea of the murdoch primary everybody talked about it and it's the real thing. you have to win rupert murdoch's...
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gingrich lied to president george h.w. bush's face back in 1990. and quote, i am ready to tell that story around the united states, says mr. simpson. that was all just today. in republicans versus newt gingrich and adds to a laundry list of newt gingrich in the recent days. charles krauthammer writing, quote, gingrich is possessed of an unbounded need of grand display that's led him to unconservative places even he is at a loss to explain. he's untamed by self-discipline. karl rove writing in "the wall street journal" yesterday, quote, when a man of his self-confidence begins to feel on top of the world, bad things often happen. oh, but wait, there's more. >> gingrich is an amazingly efficient candidacy and embodies almost everything disagreeable about modern washington. he's the classic rental politician. he denounces the ryan budget as right wing social engineering. he sits down to talk about climate change and cap and trade with nancy pelosi and others. the list goes on. he was -- but, on top of all this, there's the absurd rhetorical grandiosit
gingrich lied to president george h.w. bush's face back in 1990. and quote, i am ready to tell that story around the united states, says mr. simpson. that was all just today. in republicans versus newt gingrich and adds to a laundry list of newt gingrich in the recent days. charles krauthammer writing, quote, gingrich is possessed of an unbounded need of grand display that's led him to unconservative places even he is at a loss to explain. he's untamed by self-discipline. karl rove writing in...
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george w. bush. george w. bush was so taken with the gifted winston churchill bronze bust that he put it right in the oval office. he put it on top of a small chest of drawers located right next to the famous resolute desk. see it over president obama's head there. presidents do not all keep the same things in the oval office that their predecessors put there. if they did, a lot of them would have accumulated by now. it would be cluttered. nixon, for example, was notorious for his knickknacks. that's not true. when president obama was sworn in and the oval office was redecorated, the churchill bust went back to the british embassy. it was replaced by some other thing. now, is that a crisis? no, that is not really a crisis. that's only because you are not thinking like john boehner. right now, we are in the midst of yet another congressional crisis. a real and really bad thing urgently needs congressional action to prevent it from happening. the bad thing this time is taxes going up on 160 milli
george w. bush. george w. bush was so taken with the gifted winston churchill bronze bust that he put it right in the oval office. he put it on top of a small chest of drawers located right next to the famous resolute desk. see it over president obama's head there. presidents do not all keep the same things in the oval office that their predecessors put there. if they did, a lot of them would have accumulated by now. it would be cluttered. nixon, for example, was notorious for his knickknacks....
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in 1988 was george h.w. bush, the sitting vice president. in 1992 it was bush 41 again running as the incumbent president. in 1996 it was bob dole, who no one had much enthusiasm for but he was certainly the establishment guy. he was the next in line. in 2000 it was george w. bush, probably the most establishment guy possible. after all, this was the son of the previous republican president. 2004 it was the incumbent george w. bush. and in 2008 it was john mccain, the next guy in line, who had paid his dues and come into the fold of the establishment. if that history was a guide, you would fully expect that mitt romney would win the nomination this year and win it pretty easily. but because of the anti-establishment shocker in 2008 and even more freshly the super anti-establishment tumult of 2010, there's been a sense by people observing this year's republican race, myself included, that maybe those old rules don't apply anymore, that maybe we're still in the midst of the tea party backlash. and the tea party just won't accept an establishme
in 1988 was george h.w. bush, the sitting vice president. in 1992 it was bush 41 again running as the incumbent president. in 1996 it was bob dole, who no one had much enthusiasm for but he was certainly the establishment guy. he was the next in line. in 2000 it was george w. bush, probably the most establishment guy possible. after all, this was the son of the previous republican president. 2004 it was the incumbent george w. bush. and in 2008 it was john mccain, the next guy in line, who had...
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the new front-runner in iowa, is the only candidate in the republican presidential field who is not a george w. bush foreign policy inheriter. ron paul is the only one who doesn't want the iraq war, say, to go on for longer. and ron paul is officially leading the pack in the first republican nominating state as of the day that the iraq war officially ends. now, if you think that might mean that republican candidates are finally competing to put into practice their party's long popular rhetoric about living within our means and a humble foreign policy and the limited reach of government, that would not be the case. here with the previous iowa republican front-runner, newt gingrich, to disabuse us of that notion. >> one of the things you say is that if you don't like what a court has done that congress should subpoena the judge and bring him before congress and hold a congressional hearing. some people say that's unconstitutional, but i'll let that go for a minute. i just want to ask you from a practical standpoint, how would you enforce that? would you send the capitol police down to arrest h
the new front-runner in iowa, is the only candidate in the republican presidential field who is not a george w. bush foreign policy inheriter. ron paul is the only one who doesn't want the iraq war, say, to go on for longer. and ron paul is officially leading the pack in the first republican nominating state as of the day that the iraq war officially ends. now, if you think that might mean that republican candidates are finally competing to put into practice their party's long popular rhetoric...
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i'll use one of george w. bush's middle east advisers on the national security council, essentially paraphrasing, what planet is newt on? fundamentally, most of the middle east was carved by the british after world war ii in the deals. to some degree what he said about palestinians was so uninformed that even the most right wing republicans who have been very, very tied into this for a very long time, would arguably say are in a zero-sum game pro-israel, disavowed newt gingrich's comments. >> now, look, this was also surprising to me in part because newt gingrich often presents himself as professor gingrich. many peoples are invented. american peoples are invented from all of these different identities from which we come. so what is it? is there a signal he is meaning to send to republican primary voters with that assertion? what is it that he wants them to hear when he -- >> i think we're in an era right now where i think newt gingrich in this particular case and other candidates have done the same thing, hav
i'll use one of george w. bush's middle east advisers on the national security council, essentially paraphrasing, what planet is newt on? fundamentally, most of the middle east was carved by the british after world war ii in the deals. to some degree what he said about palestinians was so uninformed that even the most right wing republicans who have been very, very tied into this for a very long time, would arguably say are in a zero-sum game pro-israel, disavowed newt gingrich's comments....
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this is the lesson learned for the republican party from the presidency of george w. bush. joining us now, "new york" magazine writer at large frank rich. frank, thank you for being here. >> nice to be with you as always. >> how is the republican party different today than it was in 2002, when george w. bush and dick cheney were president and vice president? >> as you said, except for ron paul, who was actually the same then too, not at all. and they're sort of picking up from where mccain left off. didn't he do a joke once about bombing iran, bomb, bomb -- >> that's right. >> and to me it's just the most empty posturing. first of all, half of them don't know where iran is. they're all listening to the same coterie of sort of neo-con advisers and cheney holdovers and they're trying to posture just to show that they're strong. the one thing that -- they've learned nothing. they don't even care whether they've learned anything. and i think they're all talking through their hat because one thing they should have learned is the country did learn something. they don't want to pa
this is the lesson learned for the republican party from the presidency of george w. bush. joining us now, "new york" magazine writer at large frank rich. frank, thank you for being here. >> nice to be with you as always. >> how is the republican party different today than it was in 2002, when george w. bush and dick cheney were president and vice president? >> as you said, except for ron paul, who was actually the same then too, not at all. and they're sort of...
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after the clinton mark rich scandal, president george w. bush decided he would not handle pardon requests directly through the white house. they'd all be delegated to an office at the justice department. that office would make recommendations and president bush would have the choice whether or not to follow those recommendations. the white house looks at a pardon recommendation from that little justice department office, the president is not told the race of the person who wants the pardon. of course, the office of the pardon attorney says that race plays no role whatsoever in whether they recommend someone should or shouldn't get a pardon. it's the outcome of the squirrely process that you are four times as likely to be pardoned simply by virtue of you being a white person. quote, every drug offender forgiven during the bush administration at the pardon attorney's recommendation, 34 of them, every single one, was a white person. and although race is the most striking factor here, the propublica found other weird things, that affect your li
after the clinton mark rich scandal, president george w. bush decided he would not handle pardon requests directly through the white house. they'd all be delegated to an office at the justice department. that office would make recommendations and president bush would have the choice whether or not to follow those recommendations. the white house looks at a pardon recommendation from that little justice department office, the president is not told the race of the person who wants the pardon. of...