“After the most unpopular second term of the post-World War II era, ” pollster Gary Langer reports, former President George W. Bush “has gained in public esteem as time since his presidency has passed – not that the public’s ready...
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Delegates watch a video about former President George W. Bush at the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Tampa, Florida.
Bush Revisited: Regaining Lost Ground
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U.S. Border Patrol agents monitor the area near the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego, California, on March 21, 2012.
Durbin Says Immigration Law Overhaul Is National Security Issue
Senate Minority Whip Richard Durbin of Illinois, the chamber’s No. 2 Democrat, offers this reason for supporting an overhaul of immigration laws: It will help national security. Durbin, in an interview on “Political Capital With Al Hunt,” airing this weekend...
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Copies of the Fiscal Year 2014 Budget sit on a pallet at the U.S. Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C. on April 8, 2013.
Bush Debt Load Endorsed by Republicans Now Rejected
By Jonathan Nicholson When Republicans and Democrats describe each other’s budgets, a person could be forgiven for thinking the plans are as far apart as possible. Republicans say putting the budget into balance by 2023 is necessary to help get...
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The exterior of the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas.
Bush Center: The New Dallas
There was no shortage of controversy when the leafy, Georgian-styled campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Laura Bush’s alma mater, was chosen as the home for the George W. Bush Presidential Center (see my piece published six years ago...
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Former President George W. Bush has taken up painting.
George Bush Wants to Paint Your Dog
George W. Bush, one of the nation’s retired presidents, has become of late one of its most avid painters. The 43rd president of the United States has become a prolific practitioner of brush on canvas. And like every other pastime...
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President Barack Obama waves as he leaves the stage after speaking at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem, on March 21, 2013.
Obama: Peace ‘Necessary, Just, Possible’ — yet ‘All Options on Table’
”All options are on the table.” President George W. Bush said so in 2006. President Barack Obama, who has said it repeatedly, said it again today. They were, and are, talking about Iran’s suspected ambitions of building a nuclear weapon....
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An Israeli Arab school girl walks by an ice statue of President Barack Obama at the 'Ice Festival' showroom on March 19, 2013 in Jerusalem, Israel.
Obama’s 38th Nation to Bush’s 43 — Plus Iran in Mind
Following the last of the Washington receptions for the Irish prime minister at the White House this evening, the post-St. Patrick’s Day tour of the Taoiseach, President Barack Obama will leave for his own tour of the Middle East. Mark...
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People gather at the scene of a car bomb attack close to one of the main gates to the heavily-fortified Green Zone, which houses major government offices and the embassies of several countries, including the United States and Britain in Baghdad, Iraq, on March 19, 2013.
Iraq Ten Years After — ‘Mistake’ Registering Slim Majority in Polls
Ten years after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, there is a striking similarity in two polls asking the same question. Was it a mistake? Fifty-four percent of Americans think the U.S. should have stayed out of Iraq, according to the...
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Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, wearing the red jersey, riding in the Pelotonia with his son Will Portman, right in this file photo. Portman said his views on gay marriage began changing in 2011 when his son, Will, then a freshman at Yale University, told his parents he was gay and that it wasn't a choice but "part of who he was." Portman said he and his wife, Jane, were very surprised but also supportive.
Portman’s Signal of Political Evolution: Hello, Columbus
Written with Mark Niquette in Columbus, Ohio Republican Senator Rob Portman of Ohio, voicing support for same-sex marriage with a personal note that his son is gay, joins a bipartisan movement toward a recognition of rights that many Americans are...
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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush speaks to the media after being named Chairman of the National Constitution Center's Board of Trustees in Philadelphia.
Jeb Bush’s Path to Immigration Reform: Walking a Line
Updated again at 7 am EST, March 5 Jeb Bush’s new book, “Immigration Wars,” is billed as a “call for systemic reform.” In announcing the book last fall with co-author Clint Bolick, a research fellow with the Hoover Institution, the former...
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