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Rove comes unhinged: ’45 percent of NPR listeners were Saddam Hussein’
As the US pundit community engages in a back and forth argument over the relative merits of Fox News and National Public Radio (NPR), former Bush adviser Karl Rove and ex-DNC chairman Howard Dean sat down for a spirited debate. Rove, a paid political analyst for Fox, praised the network…
Afghan President Karzai: Bush knew we were getting bags of cash from Iran
Afghan President Hamid Karzai admitted to CNN on Monday that he has received cash payments from Iran after a New York Times report fingered his chief of staff as carrying bags of money back from trips to Iran. Little noticed in his interview, however, is that he said that President…
Karl Rove: Tea Party ‘not sophisticated’
Former top Bush adviser Karl Rove told a European publication that the Tea Party movement is “not sophisticated” and lacks the coherency and intelligence of prior right-wing uprisings in the United States. “If you look underneath the surface of the Tea Party movement, on the other hand, you will find…
Court to consider ending lawsuit against Ashcroft over detention
Supreme Court will consider ending rights lawsuit against ex-Attorney General Ashcroft The Supreme Court will consider an appeal by former Attorney General John Ashcroft to throw out a lawsuit seeking to hold him personally responsible for improperly arresting a Muslim U.S. citizen after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The justices on…
From start, Bush team focused on war with Iraq: documents
Former president George W. Bush’s advisers focused on toppling Saddam Hussein’s regime as soon as he took office and discussed how to justify a war in Iraq shortly after invading Afghanistan in 2001, official documents showed Wednesday. A few hours after the September 11 attacks in 2001, then defense secretary…
Limbaugh slams Rove for attacking O’Donnell
In another sign that Christine O’Donnell’s upset win in last night’s Delaware Republican Senate primary has opened a schism in the conservative movement, talk show host Rush Limbaugh attacked Karl Rove on the air Wednesday for Rove’s criticisms of the tea party-backed O’Donnell. Rove’s anger at O’Donnell on Fox News…
GOP spokesman: Senate GOP to oppose Obama tax plan
GOP spokesman: Senate GOP to oppose Obama from cutting taxes for middle class if rich excluded WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans will oppose any effort to renew soon-to-expire Bush administration tax cuts if upper income taxpayers are excluded from the reductions. A spokesman for Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell says the…
White House hopes GOP will accept tax cuts
White House spokesman hoping GOP leader serious about accepting middle-class tax cuts White House press secretary Robert Gibbs says the Obama administration hopes the top House Republican was serious in expressing support for renewing tax cuts for the middle class, adding that GOP hopes to also extend reductions for the…
Obama getting fewer judges confirmed than Nixon
Even some Republican senators have complained about GOP delaying tactics A determined Republican stall campaign in the Senate has sidetracked so many of the men and women nominated by President Barack Obama for judgeships that he has put fewer people on the bench than any president since Richard Nixon at…
US changes military commanders in Iraq
US changes commanders in Iraq as final phase of American military involvement begins The United States changed commanders in Iraq Wednesday, beginning the final phase of American military involvement in the country despite political uncertainty and persistent violence. The transfer of authority came a day after President Barack Obama announced…
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