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This is a serious thing, it is the loss of economic sovereignty of our nation http://www.newsmax.com/morris/?s=al&promo_code=719C-1 Bush Hands Over Reins of U.S. Economy to EU Wednesday, November 19, 2008 2:28 PM By: Dick Morris & Eileen McGann Article Font Size The results of the G-20 economic summit amount to nothing less than the seamless integration of the United States into the European economy. In one month of legislation and one diplomatic meeting, the United States has unilaterally abdicated all the gains for the concept of free markets won by the Reagan administration and surrendered, in total, to the Western European...

President Bush discussed Aviation congestion and transportation safety Trenscript First Lady Laura Bush visited the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site in Hodgenville, Ky Transcript Secretary of State Rice introduced baseball star Ken Griffey Jr, who has been named as America's newest public diplomacy envoy Enjoy your visit to Sanity Island

The Rev. Jesse Jackson said Sunday he is concerned about executive orders from President Bush in his last few months in office and the effect they could have on the incoming administration. "Bush is signing away consumer and environmental laws. I mean they're running amok, you know," Jackson said. Some Democrats in Congress have criticized several federal regulations enacted in the waning months of the Bush administration and are discussing whether some should be repealed when President-elect Barack Obama takes office in January. The civil rights leader and former presidential hopeful also criticized the federal bailout of the financial industry...

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev plans to travel this month to Cuba and Venezuela, which have increasing military and trade ties with Moscow. The U.S. has objected to Russia's greater links with the two countries that have antagonistic relations with Washington. A Russian naval flotilla is on its way to the Caribbean to hold joint military exercises with Venezuelan forces.

I WRITE in praise of George W. Bush. I recognise this may be an eccentric position to hold and an eccentric moment to express it. ..... Right now the whole world is absurdly against Bush. If he jumped in front of a speeding train to rescue an old woman he would be accused of cynically promoting US rail interests. In time, I'm sure, a more balanced understanding of Bush's achievements, as well as his failures, will emerge. But right now he's about as popular as a Wall Street stockbroker at a pensioners' rally. ..... From Australia's point of view, Bush...

President Bush, looking back on his eight years in the White House, acknowledged Tuesday he regretted making some statements during his two terms in office and wished he had not spoken in front of a "Mission Accomplished" banner a month after U.S. troops in Iraq were deployed. "I regret saying some things I shouldn't have said," Bush told CNN's Heidi Collins when asked to reflect on his regrets over his two terms as president. "Like 'dead or alive' and 'bring 'em on.' My wife reminded me that, hey, as president of the United States, be careful what you say," Bush...

RUSH: Listen to this montage yesterday and last night from the Drive-By Media. ED HENRY: What really struck the Obama camp was how gracious President Bush was. KATIE COURIC: It was one gracious couple welcoming another. JAKE TAPPER: The Senator remarked how gracious President Bush was. LISA CAPUTO: They were incredibly gracious. BOB HERBERT: President and Mrs. Bush were extremely gracious. GLORIA BORGER: George W. Bush has been incredibly gracious. JAY CARNEY: President Bush has made this pretty easy by being so gracious. KYRA PHILLIPS: It's very gracious of President Bush. RICHARD WOLFFE: Everything we're hearing is that he was...

Here is video of President George W. Bush's first interview since the election of Barack Obama as President. Bush was interviewed on CNN today prior to speaking at a Veteran's Day observance in New York. He talked about his meeting yesterday with President-elect Barack Obama at the White House, and what he believes the election of Obama means for America. . . . . (Watch Video)

NEW YORK – President Bush thanked veterans Tuesday for serving their country, noting wistfully that he'll "miss being commander in chief of such a fabulous group." Bush marked his last Veterans Day as president with a visit to a New York pier that is home to the World War II aircraft carrier Intrepid, appearing before a crowd of thousands bundled on a pier against the windy November chill for the rededication ceremony of the USS Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum. The president praised veterans in the crowd, including those who served aboard the Intrepid in its long history of...

Election Day 2008 must have been filled with rueful paradoxes for the sitting president. Iraq -- the issue that dominated George W. Bush's presidency for 5 1/2 bitter, controversial years -- is on the verge of a miraculous peace. And yet this accomplishment did little to revive Bush's political standing -- or to prevent his party from relegating him to a silent role. The achievement is historic. In 2006, Iraq had descended into a sectarian killing spree that seemed likely to stop only when the supply of victims was exhausted. Showing Truman-like stubbornness, Bush pushed to escalate a war that...

Now that America has a new President Elect, I was wondering when we might start hearing about the disgraceful treatment of Bush. I voted for G.W., twice, even though I didn't agree with him when we went to war with Iraq. I figured that he and Congress must have known something that I didn't and that there was possibly a good reason that I wasn't aware of. When the war started having its problems and no WMDs were found it didn't take long before the same people that voted for the war started throwing G.W. under the bus. The mainstream...

After losing control of the Senate and 30 House seats in 2006, the GOP is bracing for losses of six to nine in the Senate, and two dozen to three dozen additional seats in the House. If the party "were a dog food," says Rep. Tom Davis, "they would take us off the shelf." Bush's approval is 25 percent. Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton left office with ratings more than twice as high. But while John McCain and others have deplored the Bush failures, what, exactly, did he do wrong? What were the policy blunders to which Republicans vehemently objected...

Here is video of an emotional President George W. Bush speaking to White House Staffers and Cabinet Members on the south lawn of the White House today. He thanked them for their faithful service through the years, and asked for their help in making a smooth and seamless transition to the administration of President-elect Barack Obama. . . . (Watch Video)

IT is the final tribute to George W. Bush. In his America, allegedly awash with racism, militarism and bitter religion, the white war hero with the evangelical running mate got creamed and the black man of letters got the presidency. The greatest immediate international consequence of Barack Obama's election as president must be a reconsideration of the reflex anti-Americanism that forms the staple diet of intellectual life in many opinion-making corners of the world... ...President Obama will also have fellow Democrats in control of Congress. This could be triumph, or tragedy, for the Democrats and for the US... It has...

'My Heart and My Values Didn't Change' In Bush, Loyalists See a Good and Steadfast Man Who Has Gotten a Bad Rap By Dan Eggen Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, November 2, 2008; A03 On a cold, gray morning a week before Election Day, President Bush briefly emerged from the White House for an unannounced visit to the headquarters of the Republican National Committee in Southeast Washington. Outside the RNC building, Bush continued to face record-low approval ratings and a presidential campaign focused on his failings. But inside an overflowing conference room, he was greeted with roaring applause as he...

One spring morning last year, I happened to be strolling through the Congressional cemetery east of Capitol Hill with the White House press secretary Dana Perino as she walked her dog. Ms. Perino was candidly describing the challenges of her job, which were only mounting as George W. Bush’s approval rating continued to drop. Then she looked directly at me and said, “But it’s all worth it, because I so believe in the president.” It would have been easy for me to dismiss Ms. Perino as a bright and likable but ultimately Kool-Aid-stricken peddler of talking points, were it not...

Job approval ratings for Congress hit a new record-low of 9% this month, with fully 50% of likely voters giving Congress “poor” job marks. Before hitting a new record-low this month, favorable job approval ratings for Congress had stagnated at 11% since returning in June to the previously record-low job performance numbers Congress hit in October 2007. The Democratically-controlled Congress earns positive ratings from 12% of Democrats, up from 10% who said the same in July, while Republican approval has fallen to 8% from 13% last month. Job approval ratings for Congress have also fallen among political independents, down to...

WHERE IS GEORGE BUSH? Why is he not out fundraising? Why is he not defending himself and his brand? Why did he not place the blame for the crash on Fannie/Freddie/ ACORN,Fwank, Dodd , Obama,CRA, and the Sandlers? His silence allows the Osama people blame him. Doesn't he care about his legacy? He tried to reform Fannie. Why is he not defending the Surge?

President Bush, who is being pressed by European leaders to sign on to global financial market reform, will host a summit of nations in the near future to discuss the economic crisis that has shaken markets around the world, a senior administration official said Saturday. Word of the impending announcement came at Camp David where European leaders are lobbying Bush to hold a summit by year's end. The summit will focus on ideas to prevent a crisis from recurring and to preserve the free market system, said the Bush administration official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the announcement...

Senior aides to Barack Obama have been meeting George W.Bush's staff to begin planning a smooth transfer of power.Officials from both campaigns have been asked to briefings after warnings from US intelligence that terrorists and rogue states will seek to exploit the power vacuum following November's presidential election. For the first time in American history the FBI has begun vetting likely officials of the next administration before the election, to ensure they have security clearance to deal with crises on day one. Intelligence chiefs expect an attempt to emulate the terrorist strikes on Britain when Gordon Brown took power and...