America's Miserable Failure

George W. "Dubya" Bush

2008 and subsequent

• $4 Gasoline? It's News to Bush
• 473 Days of Email Missing From White House, Agencies From 2003 to 2005
• Administration Argues Veterans Not Entitled to Mental Health Care
• Administration Bows Out of Forests Suit
• Administration Decries Crack-Sentencing Reductions
• Administration Does Not Rule Out "Pre-Emptive" Pardons
• Administration Makes a Last Push to Deregulate
• Administration Moves to Protect Key Appointees
• Administration Orders Stop to New Regulations
• Administration Plans End Run for Abstinence-Only Funds
• Administration Proposes Squeezing Oil From Rock
• Administration Rebuffed in a Ruling on Deportation
• Administration Reopens Effort to De-List Endangered Gray Wolves
• Administration Rules Out Second Stimulus
• Administration Rushes to Change Workplace Toxin Rules
• Administration Won't Finalize Fuel Economy Rules
• AFT's support for Bush foreign policy: Teachers and the War (Stephen Zunes)
• America's Serious Problems Require Real Solutions (Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III)
• Appeals Courts Pushed to Right by Bush Choices
• Assault on Scientific Integrity
• Attacks, Praise Stretch Truth at GOP Convention
• Blame Bush for the Economy? (Dean Baker)
• Budget Cuts Domestic Programs
• Budget Cuts Fire Money
• Budget Lean on Domestic Programs
• Budget: Renewables Shorted
• Bush Aides Linked to Talks on Interrogations
• Bush Announces $17.4 Billion Auto Loan Program
• Bush and Brown's Warning to Iran
• Bush: Catalyst in America's Declining Influence
• Bush defends free-market system
• Bush Definition of "Transparency"
• Bush Departs Mideast With Few Apparent Gains
• Bush Era's Last Legs: Will Anything Change When He Goes? (Robert Parry)
• Bush Had No Plan to Catch Bin Laden After 9/11
• Bush Ignores Afghan School Violence
• Bush in Ramallah: "Walking on Eggs" Henri Guirchoun
• Bush's Last-Minute "Conscience" Rules Cause Furor
• Bush Legacy: Farewell to the Monroe Doctrine?
• The Bush Legacy (Take Two) Tom Engelhardt
• Bush Lifts Presidential Ban on Offshore Oil Drilling
• Bush to Relax Protected Species Rules
• Bush Requests up to $1 Trillion in Bailouts
• Bush Secretly Gave Banks $140 Billion Tax Windfall
• Bush Seeks Surplus via Medicare Cuts
• Bush Set to Relax Rules Protecting Species
• Bush Signs Jobless Benefits Extension
• Bush Sneaks Through Host of Laws to Undermine Obama
• Bush Steps Up Fight Over Balance of Power
• Bush Tearing Apart Protection for America's Wilderness
• Bush Tries to Raid Salmon Disaster Funds (Dan Bacher)
• Bush Urges Congress to Boost Defense Funding, Ignore Domestic Programs
• Bush Visits His Odious Saudi Friend (Amitabh Pal)
• Bush's Puppets (Bill Becker)
• Can Barack Obama Undo Bush's Tangled Legal Legacy?
• Dick CheneyGate
• Anti-Regulation Aide to Cheney Is Up for Energy Post
• Cheney Aides Altered Congressional Testimony
• Cheney Arraignment Set
• Cheney and ExxonMobil Linked to Global Warming Policy Shift
• Cheney's Legacy of Deception (Robert Scheer)
• Cheney Ordered to Preserve All Records
• Cheney Plan for Creating False Flag Attack (Faiz Shakir)
• Cheney says top Congressional Democrats complicit in spying
• Cheney's Secrecy Prevails
• Cheney Shielded Bush From FISA Crisis
• Cheney Throws Down Gauntlet (Marjorie Cohn)
• Cheney Was Key in Clearing CIA Interrogation Tactics
• Lawsuit to Ask That Cheney's Papers Be Made Public
• Report: Bush Exceeded Power by Withholding Cheney Comments
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• Child Health InsuranceGate
• The Proxy War - SCHIP and the Government's Role in Health Care Reform
• Second Child Insurance Veto Stands in House
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• The Chinavore's Dilemma (Joshua Kurlantzick)
• The Choice (The New Yorker)
• Citing Privilege, Bush Again Snubs Waxman
• Colorado, Wyoming Battle Bush Over Oil Shale
• Conflict Over Spying Led White House to Brink
• 'Congress must act': Bush World leaders urge action to global financial meltdown
• Conservation Groups Challenge Bush Administration's Gutting of ESA (Dan Bacher)
• Controversial Decisions to Be Back in Spotlight in 9/11 Case
• Cool to States' Call for Public Works Projects
• Court KOs Administration's Relaxed Emissions Policy
• Court Order Sought in E-Mail Controversy
• Courtroom Showdown: Bush Demands Amnesty for Spying Telecoms
• Critics Say Bush Is Out of Touch on the Economy
• Dan Rather's $70 Million Lawsuit Likely to Deal Bush Legacy a New Blow
• Daunting Challenges Await at Bush's Last G-8 Summit
• "A Decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind ..." (Wm. Scott Harrop and R.K. Ramazani)
• Democrats to White House: Preserve Your Records
• DOJ Report Implicates White House in US Attorney Firings
• Dollar Drop Maps Loss of US Clout at Final G-8 Summit
• The End of the Road for George W. Bush (Chris Hedges)
• Entrenched, Embedded, and Here to Stay: The Pentagon's Expansion Will Be Bush's Lasting Legacy (Frida Berrigan)
• EPA to White House: Greenhouse Gases Endanger Health
• Exempting Navy From Sonar Ban in Whale Areas
• Exit Bush, Far Right (Dave Mann)
• F Is for Failure: The Bush Doctrine (Tom Engelhardt)
• Farewell to All That: An Oral History of the Bush White House
• Farewell Hallelujah Chorus
• Final Year for Bush Looks Grim
• Foreclosed: The George W. Bush Story (Tom Engelhardt)
• Former Bush Donors Now Giving to Obama
• Fourth Circuit Backs Bush on Detentions
• George Bush, at Sea in the Desert (Michael Winship)
• Globalization Bush-Style (Tom Engelhardt)
• Goodbye and Good Riddance (Paul Waldman)
• Groups Sue Bush Administration Over Polar Bear Protection
• House Ignores Veto Threat, Passes Tougher Mine Safety Rules
• House to Move on Bush's Veto of Defense Bill
• House Revises Defense Bill After Veto
• House Speaker Pelosi Calls Bush "a Total Failure"
• Housing Woes Put Bush, Hill at Odds
• How the Republicans Win (Robert Parry)
• Ignoring Most FOIA Requests
• ImpeachGate
• Impeach Bush and Cheney (Elizabeth Holtzman)
• Impeachment Backers Gear Up for Congressional Hearing
• Impeachment Hearings are the Appropriate and Necessary Next Step (John Nichols)
• Interview With Rep. Dennis Kucinich - Parts 1 and 2 (Maya Schenwar) [VIDEO]
• Kucinich: Impeachment Not "Off the Table"
• Kucinich Introduces Impeachment Articles Against Bushe (Christopher Kuttruff)
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• In Final Days, Bush Pushes for Iraq's Oil (Maya Schenwar)
• In a More Diverse America, a Mostly White Convention
• Iraq Record
• Is the Bush Administration Trying to Take Down Fannie Mae? (Scott Thill)
• John, Don't Go (Paul Krugman)
• Judge: Bush Can't Exempt Navy in Sonar
• Judge: No Delay in White House Subpoenas Case
• Judge Rejects Bush's View on Wiretaps
• Judge Threatens Jail for Bush Official
• Judge: White House Aides Can Be Subpoenaed
• The Lamest Duck: Bush's Last Days (Joe Klein)
• A Last Push To Deregulate
• Last Secrets of the Bush Administration Charles Homans
• Latin leftists gloating over 'Comrade' Bush's bailout
• Lawmaker Accuses Bush of Secrecy Over Iraq Deal
• Lawmaker Vows to Prevent Bush Attack on Worker Safety Laws
• Learning the Wrong Lessons From the Bush Era (Andrew Bacevich)
• Least Trusted Leaders: Bush, Musharraf, Ahmadinejad
• The Legacy of Bush II (Robert Scheer)
• McClellan Blames Bush, Not Aides, for Disillusionment
• McClellan: Bush Should Have Fired Rove
• McClellan and His Media Collaborators (Jeff Cohen)
• Medicare: Congress Hands Bush Third Override of Presidency
• Meet Bush's Prison Nominee
• Mideast Speech Draws Cool Response
• Midnight Hour (Elizabeth Kolbert)
• Mortgage Meltdown (Bill Moyers Journal)
• Mr. Bush v. the Bill of Rights (The New York Times)
• My Interview With Rep. Henry Waxman VIDEO: Marc Ash
• New Rule Lifts Ban on Firearms in National Parks
• Officials Plan to Dial Back Environmental Protections
• OlbermannGate
• Keith Olbermann: GOP Trademarks 9/11 [VIDEO]
• Keith Olbermann: McCain, Latest Pander Plan [VIDEO]
• Keith Olbermann: McCain: Senator, Grow Up!
• Keith Olbermann: McCain Should Know Better
• Keith Olbermann: Obama's FISA Opportunity [VIDEO]
• Keith Olbermann: Obama: McCain/Palin "Not Telling the Truth" [VIDEO]
• Keith Olbermann: Special Comment on FISA "Veto" [VIDEO]
• Keith Olbermann: The Tone of the Presidential Race [VIDEO]
• MSNBC Demotes Keith Olbermann
• One Angry Man: Is Keith Olbermann Changing TV News? (Peter J. Boyer)
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• Ozone Rules Weakened at Bush's Behest
• PalinGate
• 150,000 dollars of clothes isn¹t enough for Sarah Palin
• Disclosures on Palin Raise Questions on Vetting Process
• Has Sarah Palin Been Picked as the Titular Head of the Coming Police State? Naomi Klein, Huffington Post: Palin will help to establish a true and irreversible 'fear society' in this once free once proud nation:
• The Hoover-Palin ticket
• Levi Johnston's mother hit with drug charges Arrested: her son was in the spotlight as father of Bristol Palin's baby
• Lipstick on Polar Bears (Michael Winship)
• McCain picks Alaska governor for running mate Indianz.Com. In Print.
• Meet Sarah Palin’s radical right-wing pals
• Official: Palin's Never Issued an Order to Alaska Guard
• Palin Accepted $25,000 in Gifts, Alaska Records Show
• Palin's Alaska Reaps the Windfall Profits McCain Decries (Robert Scheer)
• Palin's Alternate Universe
• Palin Billed State for Nights Spent at Home Taxpayers Also Funded Family's Travel
• Palin Blamed for Death Threats Against Obama
• Palin Couldn't Run a Car Wash, Let Alone a Whole Country
• Palin Faces Laundry List of Complications
• Palin, the Free Market and Certificate of Need Laws (Niko Karvounis)
• Palin: "A Gidget for God's Truth" (Steve Weissman)
• Palin's Husband Refuses to Testify In Alaska Probe
• Palin: McCain Campaign's End Run Around Media
• Palin: The Opposite of Progress (Cynthia Boaz)
• Palin Problem : She's out of her league
• Palin's Speech to Nowhere (Will Bunch)
• Palin stylist draws higher pay than policy adviser
• A Palin Theocracy (Marjorie Cohn)
• Palin's "Trooper-Gate" Cover-Up (Robert Parry)
• Palindrome Gets Better and Better
• Pulling the Curtain on Palin (E.J. Dionne Jr.)
• Report: Palin Abused Power as Governor of Alaska
• Rosenfeld: Alaska is a disaster
• Seven Palin Aides to Testify in Abuse-of-Power Probe
• Stop Smearing Sarah Palin! You ... You ... Fox News Embed? Elizabeth de la Vega takes an ironic look at the media's interaction with vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
• Supreme Court Won't Block Troopergate Inquiry
• Top GOP Pundits Fault Palin Selection [VIDEO]
• Welcome to Gilead, Governor Palin (Cynthia Boaz)
• With Palin Revelations, McCain's Gamble Is Clearer (Peter Wallsten)
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• Persian Gulf Nuclear Agreement Bush pushes nukes for UAE
• PlameGate
• Appeals Court Upholds CIA Leak Lawsuit Dismissal
• Bush Claims Executive Privilege on CIA Leak
• McClellan Blames Bush for CIA Leak Uproar
• Cheney's Admissions to the CIA Leak Prosecutor and FBI (Murray Waas)
• McClellan to Testify Before House in CIA Leak Case
• Plame Time Frames Match Missing White House Emails
• Waxman Wants Bush, Cheney CIA Leak FBI Interviews
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• Plan Would Blunt State Birth Control Law
• Plans to Sign Nuclear Pact With UAE
• Police Arrest 200 in March on GOP Convention, Including Journalists
• President Weakens Espionage Oversight
• Probe Sought of Bush Handling of Alaska Oil-Spill Case
• Rape Hobbles Bush Administration Policies (Ann Wright)
• Reagan Era Closes, Republicans Lack Shared Identity
• The Real-Life "24" of Summer 2008 (Frank Rich)
• Remember Pearl Harbor! (John Lamperti)
• Republicans Bring Socialism to America (Robert Scheer)
• Revoking a Pardon Granted a Day Earlier
• Rove's IT Guru Warned of Sabotage
• Rumsfeld Nemesis Shinseki to be Named VA Secretary
• St. Paul's Police Protest the Press (Michael Winship)
• Senate Approves Consumer Safety Overhaul That Bush Opposes
• Special Counsel Gets More Funds to Continue White House Probe
• StemCellGate
• Adult Stem Cell Treatment Ready for Human Testing?
• Scientists Eager for Stem Cell Policy Change
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• Supreme Court Overturns Bush v. Gore
• Suskind Stands by White House WMD Forgery Claim
• Tawdry Tale of Oil Drillers and "MMS Chicks" (Carl Hiaasen)
• Thank You, George! (Frederic Lemaitre)
• Time for a Grand Inquest Into Bush's High Crimes (Robert Borosage)
• Top Scientist Rails Against Bush Hirings
• Turning the Bush Page (Le Monde)
• Two Dangerous Bush-Cheney Myths (Robert Parry)
• UN Blasts White House on Waterboarding
• Under Bush, OSHA Mired in Inaction
• Under Bush, US Influence in Latin America Wanes
• Vermont Town Votes on Bush "Indictment"
• Veterans Groups Urge Bush to O.K. Extra VA Funds
• Veto a Blow to "Wounded Warriors" (Schenwar and Renner)
• Veto of Waterboarding Restrictions
• Veto of Wiretap Measure Is Threatened
• Veto Threat on Funding for Low-Income Heating Assistance Ignores Serious Need
• Vetoing History's Responsibility (The New York Times)
• A Victory for the Rule of the Law (Eugene Robinson)
• WarCrimesGate
• Law school dean convenes Bush War Crimes Conference
• US General Accuses Bush Administration of War Crimes
• War Crimes
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• The Wave of "Capitol Crimes" Continues (Moyers and Winship)
• War Widens Dangerously (Tariq Ali)
• Waxman Threatens Mukasey With Contempt
• The Wedding Crashers: A Short Till-Death-Do-Us-Part History of Bush's Wars (Tom Engelhardt)
• We've Got 99 Problems, but a Human-Animal Hybrid Ain't One
• What Is He Capable of? Briggs and Briggs
• White House Disavows EPA Plan on Emissions
• White House: E-MailGate
• Congress to Bush: You've Lost Mail (Dan Froomkin)
• Emails May Be Secret a Bit Longer
• Judge Again Rules White House Must Release Email
• White House E-Mail Battle Heats Up
• White House Email Users Could Have Erased Records (Matt Renner)
• White House Has No Comprehensive Email Archive
• White House Missing as Many as 225 Days of E-Mail
• White House Missing CIA, Iraq E-mails
• White House Reused Email Tapes, Destroying Records
• White House Says It Routinely Overwrote Email Tapes From 2001 to 2003
• White House Told to Provide E-Mail Info
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• White House Hiring Is Political On May 17, 2005, the White House's political affairs office sent an e-mail message to agencies throughout the executive branch directing them to find jobs for 108 people on a list of 'priority candidates' who had 'loyally served the president.'
• White House Ignored EPA Report on Regulating Emissions
• White House Memos Endorsed CIA Waterboarding
• White House Memos on Wiretapping Sought
• White House Plans Arms Sale to Saudis
• Will Bush's Stimulus Package Work? (Nomi Prins)
• With Time Short, Bush Pushes EPA to Relax Power-Plant Rule
• Withholding Salmon Disaster Money while Pushing for Corporate Bailouts
• Witnesses: Bush Labor Department Cheats Workers