The number of taxpayer-paid private contractors in Iraq, the number of bullets fired for each insurgent killed, the percentage of amputations performed on U.S. war-wounded: a compilation of numbers puts Iraq into perspective.
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With Karl Rove’s departure from the White House, the conventional wisdom says that it’s all but over domestically and that the most the Bush administration can do now is manage the fallout from its failed Iraq adventure.
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Like the proverbial hedgehog, Karl Rove knew one big thing: how to win elections as if they were divine interventions.
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Karl Rove, the architect of so much that has gone so wrong with the Bush administration, announced yesterday that he is leaving the White House to spend more time with his family.
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Two 50-something men who wear black robes, rarely speak in public and remain unrecognizable to most Americans are turning up in campaign playbooks from Oregon to Maine.
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Many Americans are under the delusion that we have “the best health care system in the world,” as President Bush sees it, or provide the “best medical care in the world,” as Rudolph Giuliani declared last week.
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The White House’s public relations strategies for the war in Iraq are again gathering steam to America’s peril.
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Like many in this country who were angered when Congress rushed to rubber-stamp a bill giving President Bush even more power to spy on Americans, we took some hope from the vow by Congressional Democrats to rewrite the new law … Read more »
Yesterday, after meeting with his economic advisers at the Treasury Department, President Bush “vowed to veto spending bills that exceed his targets” for the fiscal year 2008 federal budget while accusing congressional leaders “of plotting the largest tax increase in … Read more »
