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Bush recalls ‘awesome’ presidency: ‘I was famous and powerful’
In a recent interview, George W. Bush fondly recalled his eight-year presidency as “awesome,” but said he wasn’t eager to get back into public life. “I really don’t want to be in the public eye anymore,” the former president told the Hoover Institute’s Peter Robinson in an interview posted to…
Why the Romneycare Digs Shouldn’t Be a Priority
Steve Kornacki’s piece at Salon today on two of Romney’s biggest weaknesses lays out some of the common wisdom that’s forming around Mitt Romney. One, which I think is indisputable, is that Romney’s position as an unthinking member of the 1% is going to hurt him. Voters aren’t just that…
HBO apologizes for depicting George W. Bush’s head impaled on a pike
U.S. cable network HBO apologized this week after Internet users spotted a replica of former President George W. Bush’s head in an episode of HBO’s Game of Thrones, shown severed and impaled on a pike. The former president’s likeness was first spotted by commenters on Reddit.com, who noted that the…
Maddow: Romney on board with the legacy of Dick Cheney
On her show Wednesday night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow explained that although presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney had distanced himself from George W. Bush, Romney had openly expressed his admiration for Dick Cheney. She began the segment by outlining the history of Cheney, who had defended President Ronald Reagan…
Dan Rather to Maher: Corporate media consolidation is politicizing and trivializing journalism
Friday night, on “Real Time with Real Maher,” host Bill Maher welcomed veteran newsman Dan Rather, long-time anchor of “The CBS Evening News.” Rather is the author of a new book, called Rather Outspoken. Rather’s career as a news anchor was brought to an abrupt and ignominious end in 2004…
Romney refuses to mention Bush’s name after endorsement
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is refusing to even utter George W. Bush’s name after the former president endorsed him in an elevator on Tuesday. “I’m for Mitt Romney,” Bush had blurted out to ABC News on Tuesday as the doors of the elevator closed on him in Washington,…
Maddow: Consumer rebates from the ACA are a big f’ing deal
Friday night on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” host Rachel Maddow devoted the show’s opening segment to the concept of “retail politics” and how the Democrats may finally be mastering that art in the form of Affordable Care Act (ACA) rebate checks, one of which could be on its way to…
Rubio: George W. Bush ‘did a fantastic job as president’
Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio on Sunday refused to explain how a potential Romney administration would be different from George W. Bush’s administration, but insisted that the last Republican president “did a fantastic job” and his brother, former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL), would be a “fantastic vice president.” “I haven’t…
McCain: GOP campaign ‘the nastiest’ ever
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has seen some dirty campaigns in career, but on Sunday he said the 2012 Republican primary was “nastiest” one ever. During the 2000 Republican presidential primary, then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush’s top strategist, Karl Rove, put forward the idea that McCain had “fathered an illegitimate black…
Neil deGrasse Tyson: Partisan bickering tainted future of NASA
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson appeared Tuesday on The David Pakman Show to explain the politics of NASA and why private industries could not lead the frontier of space exploration. “NASA has always been political,” he said. “The difference is it is now partisan. That’s an important distinction. NASA was created…
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