George P. Bush, fourth generation of a family whose political lines have run through Connecticut, Texas and Florida, is coming to Washington to help raise money for “the Donkey Whisperer.” That’s first-term Texas Rep. Roger Williams, billing Bush as a...
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George P. Bush Raising Money for Texas’ ‘Donkey Whisperer’
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Former Florida governor Jeb Bush autographs his new book 'Immigration Wars: Forging an American Solution' before speaking at the Reagan Library on March 8, 2013 in Simi Valley, California.
Jeb Bush’s ‘Best Kept Secret’
“The success of conservative principles is the best kept secret in American politics,” Jeb Bush writes. And it’s all a matter of communication, he says. If what the Republican Party has here is a failure to communicate, the former Florida...
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Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney greets Asian American supporters as he campaigns at Van Dyck park in Fairfax, Va., on Sept. 13, 2012.
RNC’s Asian-American Outreach: Hires
Jeb Bush has called Asian-Americans the canary in the Republican Party’s coal mine. Look past the 71 percent of Hispanic voters who sided with President Barack Obama in November, the Florida Republican has suggested, and one will find the 74...
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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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Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush addresses the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Jeb Bush: Republicans Too ‘Anti’
Jeb Bush says it’s time his Republican Party stops being known as the “anti” party. It’s time, he says, to reach out to Americans who have been excluded. “We used to be the party in the front,” Bush said...
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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush speaks in Austin, Texas, on Feb. 26, 2013.
Jeb Bush ‘Open’ to 2016: CPAC Chair
Jeb Bush is “open” to running for president in 2016. So says Al Cardenas, a longtime political associate and friend of the former Florida governor. Open, Cardenas noted today — nothing more, not committed, simply open. For his part, Bush...
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Representative Paul Ryan, a Republican from Wisconsin, holds a copy of the Fiscal Year 2013 Budget while chairing a House Budget Committee hearing in Washington in this Feb. 16, 2012 file photo.
Washington Daybook: Ryan’s Savings
The Treasury Department will update the size and scope of the federal budget problem when it reports on February’s deficit, with economists surveyed by Bloomberg saying it could be more than $200 billion. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, a...
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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush speaks during the final day of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida.
Jeb Bush’s 2016 Window: Still Open
Jeb Bush appears “locked and loaded for bear,” fellow Republican and Floridian Joe Scarborough says. The former Florida governor’s run of interviews with a new book on immigration is the clearest sign that another Bush is looking at a run...
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Women in New York City.
National Obesity Index: 26.2%
One third of the people in West Virginia are fat. It’s the most obese state of all, by the measure of the Gallup organization and Healthways. Coloradans are the least likely in the nation to be obese — theirs is...
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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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