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  • VIDEO: Sarah Palin Won't Seek Second Term, Will Resign Mid-Term

    07/03/2009 1:06:02 PM PDT · by ianschwartz · 72 replies · 1,914+ views
    Real Clear Politics ^ | July 3, 2009 | Real Clear Politics
    Gov. Sarah Palin will resign her office in a few weeks, she said during a news conference at her home Friday morning. Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell will be inaugurated at the Governor's Picnic at the end of the month, Palin said.
  • The Unknown of a Second Term Schwarzenegger

    06/29/2006 6:03:53 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 5 replies · 268+ views
    FlashReport ^ | 6/29/06 | Jennifer Nelson
    I planned to write today's commentary on the state budget, but then I read Assemblyman Chuck Devore's e-mail to his supporters that Nicholas Romero posted yesterday afternoon and realized that there wasn't much to say beyond what DeVore wrote (or the San Diego U-T or the OC Register). But I do have a few thoughts on the matter. While the Legislature and the Governor can campaign this year as having passed and signed the state budget into law before July 1 as required by the state's constiution, no one should be throwing a party. Sure, this year's budget is not...
  • Bush's Thousand Days

    04/23/2006 9:51:50 PM PDT · by RWR8189 · 6 replies · 558+ views
    Washington Post ^ | April 24, 2006 | Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
    The Hundred Days is indelibly associated with Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the Thousand Days with John F. Kennedy. But as of this week, a thousand days remain of President Bush's last term -- days filled with ominous preparations for and dark rumors of a preventive war against Iran.The issue of preventive war as a presidential prerogative is hardly new. In February 1848 Rep. Abraham Lincoln explained his opposition to the Mexican War: "Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion and you allow him to do so whenever he may...
  • Novak: Karl Rove Supreme

    03/29/2006 10:28:14 PM PST · by RWR8189 · 34 replies · 1,557+ views
    Creator's Syndicate ^ | March 30, 2006 | Robert Novak
    WASHINGTON -- Everybody in Washington's Republican political community was well aware that any changes George W. Bush made in his White House staff would not constitute a shake-up. What nobody expected was that Josh Bolten, in essence a professional bureaucrat, would be promoted to chief of staff. Yet, this selection becomes understandable as a confirmation of Karl Rove's supremacy in the White House.Rove holds the mundane titles of senior adviser to the president and deputy chief of staff, but scarcely anything happens in the Bush administration without his approval. Now he is more influential than ever. Andrew Card, the departing...
  • Loyal to the End (Andy Card)

    03/28/2006 4:16:54 PM PST · by RWR8189 · 6 replies · 754+ views
    Newsweek ^ | March 28, 2006 | Richard Wolffe and Holly Bailey
    Now the question is whether Card wanted to quit his job or whether he needed to. The White House announced Card’s resignation on Tuesday and his replacement, budget director Joshua Bolten. Card first offered his resignation three weeks ago, according to the White House. That was just after the first polls showed just how much the White House was bleeding support after the Dubai ports story. A CBS poll gave Bush a job approval rating of only 34 percent and a personal favorability rating of 29 percent. (NEWSWEEK’s poll later showed the president with a 36-percent approval rating.) Bush won...
  • Fred Barnes: Losing Friends and Influence (President Bush misjudges immigration and the ports issue)

    02/25/2006 2:30:07 PM PST · by RWR8189 · 119 replies · 2,792+ views
    The Weekly Standard ^ | March 6, 2006 | Fred Barnes
    Like few presidents before him, President Bush was poised for a consequential and potentially quite successful second term. It hasn't worked out that way (so far). Bush made one strategic error in 2005, guessing wrongly that the country was adult and serious enough to reform Social Security. Now he faces at least two immediate challenges: immigration and the Dubai ports flap. Let's start with immigration, which the Senate is slated to take up in late March. On immigration, Bush is not a conventional conservative or any other kind of conservative. His instinct is to sympathize with immigrants. Bush believes that...
  • Talk of Changes in White House Staff Turns to Its Chief (Andrew Card)

    12/04/2005 9:42:31 PM PST · by RWR8189 · 13 replies · 1,075+ views
    New York Times ^ | December 5, 2005 | ELISABETH BUMILLER
    There may be 26 holiday parties in 21 days at the White House this month, but the mood in the West Wing is anything but merry. True, President Bush's recent Iraq speeches have put the White House back into comfortable blasts of campaign mode, but a lot of staff members say that they are feeling burned out and beaten down. So talk has intensified after a miserable year - Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, the C.I.A. leak investigation, Iraq - about staff changes and who may be leaving in January. "I hope you know that coming into a new year, some people...
  • There Has Never Been A Good Second Term (Dubya is No Exception)

    11/28/2005 8:25:51 AM PST · by SirLinksalot · 13 replies · 823+ views
    Forbes Magazine ^ | December Edition | Caspar Weinberger
    There Has Never Been a Good Second Term Caspar Weinberger, 12.12.05, 12:00 AM ET This is one of those myths that takes root in the minds of various columnists and "thinkers" and is repeated so often that the mere frequency of the repetition seems to make it true. The fact is, there have been several Presidents who have had good second terms. • George Washington, most historians agree, would have been reelected to a third term had he wanted one. The few internal disputes that occurred during his second term were nothing that would have put off the voters. But...
  • Newsview: Bush Gets Wins Under His Belt

    07/28/2005 1:55:30 PM PDT · by West Coast Conservative · 34 replies · 1,025+ views
    AP ^ | July 28, 2005 | TOM RAUM
    After a rocky start, President Bush is scoring legislative wins that could be important tests of his ability to push laws through Congress in his second term. While his centerpiece proposal to restructure Social Security continues to languish, Bush's close victory on a trade bill and his progress on energy and highway legislation are quieting talk that he is a lame duck already. His nomination of conservative federal appeals court Judge John Roberts to the Supreme Court also seems to be on track, despite skirmishing with Democrats over access to papers from Roberts' work as deputy solicitor general in the...
  • Bush Shrugs Off Slump in Polls; Jokes about Second-Term "Quagmire"

    06/24/2005 11:52:17 AM PDT · by West Coast Conservative · 114 replies · 2,224+ views
    AP ^ | June 24, 2005
    WHITE HOUSE President Bush is shrugging off the polls showing his job approval rating at low ebb. At a news conference with Iraq's visiting prime minister, Bush jokingly suggested the word "quagmire" to a reporter asking about a possible "second-term slump." The president says he knows U-S troops have a difficult mission in Iraq against a bloodthirsty and determined enemy. And he says on domestic issues, he's asking Congress to "take on some big tasks." He says he's not surprised his idea for a Social Security overhaul has met stiff resistance from lawmakers. Bush added: "This is a time of...
  • Clinton Would Have Saved Social Security If Not for Ken Starr

    04/14/2005 9:16:57 PM PDT · by CHARLITE · 23 replies · 688+ views
    CHRONWATCH.COM ^ | APRIL 14, 2005 | NOEL SHEPPARD
    Isn’t it amazing how many wonderful things former President William Jefferson Clinton would have done for this world if it wasn’t for the uncalled-for meddling of Special Prosecutor Ken Starr? The most recent such revelation suggests that Mr. Clinton would have reformed Social Security in his second term if he had not been distracted by those dastardly and unnecessary impeachment proceedings. Such are the proclamations in a San Francisco Chronicle front-page story entitled "Social Security rehab died first under Clinton.”http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/04/11/MNGKIC697J1.DTL To begin with, the Chronicle’s Carolyn Lochhead states that saving Social Security from imminent insolvency was a key initiative of...
  • Bush Rallies Republicans Ahead of Speech

    01/28/2005 11:31:29 AM PST · by West Coast Conservative · 3 replies · 563+ views
    AP ^ | January 28, 2004 | TOM RAUM
    WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. Va. - President Bush rallied congressional Republicans on behalf of his second-term program on Friday, saying, "I think we've proven to the country we know how to set an agenda and work together to achieve it." He also gave a brief preview of the State of the Union address he will deliver on Wednesday: "I will remind the country we're still at war. I want to thank the Congress for providing the necessary support for our troops who are in harm's way." Bush spoke at a luncheon GOP retreat at a time when his proposal to...
  • Mark Steyn: Identity crisis . . .

    01/23/2005 10:42:31 PM PST · by Former Military Chick · 8 replies · 683+ views
    WAshington Times ^ | January 24, 2005 | MARK STEYN
    I picked up the Village Voice for the first time in years this week. Couldn't resist the cover story: "The Eve of Destruction: George W Bush's four-year plan to wreck the world." Oh, dear. It's so easy to raise expectations at the beginning of a new presidential term. But at least Mr. Bush has a four-year plan. Over on the Democratic bench, worldwise, they don't seem to have given things much thought. The differences were especially stark this past seven days: In the first half of the week, Senate Dems badgered the incoming secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice -- culminating...
  • American Account: Irwin Stelzer: Buoyant Bush plans a radical second term

    01/23/2005 6:36:43 AM PST · by flitton · 10 replies · 314+ views
    The Sunday Times ^ | 23/01/05 | Irwin Stelzer
    THE MUSIC has stopped, the flower arrangements have wilted, and the 2,000 police who came from all over the country to aid the 4,000 Washington cops and the military to maintain security have gone home, as have the 12,000 Texans and Texan wannabes who consumed 21,000 enchiladas at the Black Tie and Boots Ball. Now all the president has to do is govern. Tony Blair once said that governing is a lot harder than campaigning, so now comes the hard part for George Bush. If the president were a Stephen Sondheim fan, he might have adopted the theme from Gypsy...
  • Top Ten Bush Goals For His Second Term

    01/23/2005 4:02:00 AM PST · by an italian · 31 replies · 1,142+ views
    Top Ten Bush Goals For His Second Term 10. Fewer idiotic remarks; more hilarious pratfalls. 9. Add mother Barbara to Mount Rushmore. 8. Combine Nebraska and Kansas into new state: Nebransas. 7. Spice up boring state dinners with tasty fish sticks! 6. Improve communication skills from poor to fair. 5. Catch up on his "Smokey And The Bandit" collection. 4. Get Ray Stevens to write some funny lyrics for "Hail To The Chief" 3. Ride every roller coaster in the country. 2. Install remote-activated button in Oval Office so he can blow stuff up right from his desk! 1. Begin...
  • Inauguration Day Live Thread (55TH PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION AND SECOND TERM)

    01/20/2005 4:06:53 AM PST · by goldstategop · 4,306 replies · 140,098+ views
    01/20/05 | goldstategop
    55th Inauguration And Day's Events - Live Thread
  • Dick Morris: How Second Terms Fail

    01/19/2005 2:14:35 PM PST · by RWR8189 · 46 replies · 5,484+ views
    New York Post ^ | January 19, 2005 | Dick Morris
    PRESIDENTIAL second terms usually end in fail ure. Since 1900, only Teddy Roosevelt could boast of a second term that was as good or better than his first. Woodrow Wilson lost Congress, then couldn't bring America into the League of Nations. FDR, whose third term was a success, failed to pass anything in his second after he alienated Congress by trying to pack the Supreme Court and purge recalcitrant Democrats. Harry Truman's popularity plunged over Korea, as Lyndon Johnson's did over Vietnam. Ike had two recessions and a hospitalization. Richard Nixon resigned. Ronald Reagan had Iran-Contra, and Bill Clinton was...
  • LIVE THREAD: George W. Bush: Behind the Headlines ( Fox News )

    01/16/2005 5:19:30 PM PST · by Howlin · 430 replies · 9,193+ views
    Fox News ^ | January 16, 2005
    Rare photos, unseen video and exclusive interviews with the president's inner circle! Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Andy Card, and Joe Allbaugh take you inside the Oval Office during crisis and war, and paint an intimate portrait of G.W.B.
  • Bush's legacy likely to last generations

    01/16/2005 11:01:22 AM PST · by advance_copy · 5 replies · 407+ views
    San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 1/16/05 | Marc Sandalow
    Washington -- Four more years of President Bush in the White House is a prospect that instills hope in some and fright in others. Yet Bush's influence is likely to extend well beyond January 2009, when his second term officially ends. From reshaping the Supreme Court and American foreign policy to transforming Social Security, the tax code and environmental laws, Bush has an opportunity to put his imprint on policies for generations to come.
  • Bush charts second-term strategy

    12/10/2004 9:00:54 AM PST · by crushelits · 27 replies · 476+ views
    msnbc.msn.com ^ | Dec. 10, 2004 | Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen
    Bush Not Screwing Around On Making "Ownership Society" A Reality President Bush is moving quickly to create a new, tighter and more disciplined domestic policy team to pursue transforming the way Americans save for retirement, pay taxes and seek legal damages.Convinced his leadership style and policy vision were vindicated by the election results, Bush is aggressively targeting these domestic programs for the second term by essentially replicating the formula he used to reshape foreign policy in the first. This includes creating a small, loyal and trustworthy team to press for sweeping changes largely dictated by the White House.To build...