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Freeper dmd25 gave me a great idea when he posted a few photos from the facts of President Bush’s T-Ball initiative http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2443909/replies?c=433 So I thought I would let us go back into the memory lane and post photos of the T Ball games at the White House which we all enjoyed reading about.

Thursday, May 07, 2009 Glass Houses    [Dana Perino] Over the last several months, Washington has been abuzz over the demise of one of the main entities that make up our political system.  Commentators shake their heads and shrug their shoulders, saying that it was bound to happen. It lost its way. It failed to keep up with the times. Its popularity rating and its credibility are circling the drain — and so is the money. Many people long associated with it are making the tough decision to leave it and join other groups. It is beleaguered and out-of-sync with...

WASHINGTON — Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan is lashing out at the Bush administration's handling of the CIA leak case in his new book over what he said was intentional misinformation given to him by the administration and claiming the president was "involved" in the media run-around. The Politico reported Tuesday on its Web site that the publisher of "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and What's Wrong With Washington" released a three-paragraph excerpt of the book highlighting the contentious period. [snip] "I stood at the White House briefing room podium in front of the glare of...

The White House wants to appoint a high-powered czar to oversee the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with authority to issue directions to the Pentagon, the State Department and other agencies, but it has had trouble finding anyone willing to take the job, according to people close to the situation. At least three retired four-star generals approached by the White House in recent weeks have declined to be considered for the position, sources said, underscoring the administration's difficulty in enlisting its top recruits to join the team after five years of warfare that have taxed the United States and its...

Press converence at White House on CNN. LOL. All the news chick could say was, "Wow!"

WITH TOM DELAY ON THE sidelines, things will be different on Capitol Hill, especially for President Bush. The White House will no longer command an automatic majority in the House of Representatives--that is, the votes of nearly all 231 Republicans--on any bill the president endorses. In the shuffle that saw DeLay replaced as majority leader by Roy Blunt, Bush came out a loser.This is counterintuitive because the Missouri Republican has a warmer relationship with the White House, particularly with deputy chief of staff Karl Rove, than DeLay ever did. Blunt's close ties with the president go back to 1999, when...

As David Brooks observed in his November 29 op-ed column for the New York Times, conservatives have come a long way in the political arena since the days of Barry Goldwater. No longer insurgents, right-of-center politicians have gotten so good at winning elections that they are now at the center of power. They predominate in the Republican Party, which is arguably the country's majority party and certainly feels free to behave as majority parties do. The problem is that with this new power, many conservatives have begun to lose sight of what exactly it is they seek to conserve. It...