Archive for the 'Bush' Category

06
Jan

Yeah! No Bush in Florida

Here is an update from our earlier story today regarding former Gov. Jeb Bush and the open US Senate seat.  Earlier, we reported that Bush was leaning against running for Sen, Mel Martinez seat.  NOW, Bush has announced he indeed WILL NOT seek the US Senate seat in Florida.
Former Gov. Jeb Bush announced Tuesday that [...]

06
Jan

The Real Bush Legacy

President-elect Barack Obama said today that the Nation may have to prepare for the next few years for deficits totaling over trillion dollars per year.
Obama said Tuesday the deficit appears on track to hit $1 trillion soon. Speaking to reporters after meeting with top economic aides, Obama said: “Potentially we’ve got trillion-dollar deficits for years [...]

06
Jan

Jeb Bush Not to Run For Senate?

The St. Petersburg Times is reporting that former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, brother of President George W. Bush, is leaning against a run for the United States Senate seat being vacated by Senator Mel Martinez, who announced he would not seek reelection.  The announcement by Jeb Bush may come as early as next week.
Bush may [...]

25
Sep

Bush/McCain Economy: Unemployment at 7 year High

Here you go.  Unemployment jumps to a staggering 7 year high.
According to a study by the Department of Labor, initial filings for state jobless benefits increased by a seasonally adjusted 32,000 to 493,000 in the third week of September. It was the highest number of weekly claims since Sept. 29, 2001, when unemployment soared in [...]

10
Sep

Bush admin gets worse and worse

The Bush administration’s Department of the Interior is a den of corruption and prostitution and drugs.
Government officials handling billions of dollars in oil royalties engaged in illicit sex with employees of energy companies they were dealing with and received numerous gifts from them, federal investigators said Wednesday.
The alleged transgressions involve 13 Interior Department employees in [...]

31
Aug

Bush not to speak at the Convention?

Wow the Republican brand is bad.  So bad that the SITTING PRESIDENT is not going to the convention?
Per ABC News Senior White House officials are telling George Stephanopolous that Bush will “Almost certainly” not attend the Minnesota Convention.
There is speculation that because of Gustav possibly hitting landfall on Monday that the Presiden’t planned speech is [...]

16
Jul

Bush ADMITS Obama Was Right on Iran

Just a few weeks ago, controversy flared when President Bush, speaking before the Israeli Knesset, criticized Barack Obama as supporting ‘appeasement’ for wanting to open dialogue with Iran.
Now, a as the AP reports, as US envoy will meet with Iran nuclear negotiators.  What?  Is Bush for appeasement?  Or, like McCain has moved to Obama’s stance [...]

15
Jul

America to Bush: You really suck, dude

A new ABC News poll puts President Bush’s approval rating at 28%, a new low in that poll for the 3rd consecutive month.
Sixty-nine percent disapprove of Bush’s performance, a record high in presidential approval polls since 1938 (by ABC News to 1981, and Gallup before us). Fifty-six percent “strongly” disapprove of Bush’s performance, another record.
In [...]

14
Jul

Breaking: Bush to allow offshore oil drilling

This news is just breaking, but the White House is saying that President Bush will announce a lifting of the federal ban on offshore oil drilling.

30
Jun

You Think They Would be Over Denial

Is it possible the White House, after all these months with setting record after record after record of low approval ratings, have entered a cacoon of —- denial?
There’s another aspect of the White House’s upbeat mood. When he travels around the country, Bush feels less “antipathy” than he used to in the crowds, along the [...]

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