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Pity the poor president: How do you become a leader in fighting greenhouse gas emissions after spending seven years pretending the problem doesn't exist?
By Andrew Leonard
April 16, 2008
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Now is not the time, or the place, for the president to pick a fight with Congress over the Colombian Free Trade Agreement.
By Andrew Leonard
April 10, 2008
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In Jacksonville, Fla., Bush praises the benefits of trade, but in Washington, helping workers who get burned by the global economy isn't his priority. Too bad for him.
By Andrew Leonard
March 19, 2008
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The president appraises Wall Street's performance Monday morning.
By Andrew Leonard
March 17, 2008
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The president says the U.S. isn't headed towards a recession. The candidate disagrees. As part of his answer, Ben Bernanke quotes Leo Tolstoy
By Andrew Leonard
February 28, 2008
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When it comes to funding programs that encourage reproductive health, the budget chooses to abstain.
By Catherine Price
February 5, 2008
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President Bush urges ordinary Americans to get become more financially literate. "Did they know what they were getting into?"
By Andrew Leonard
January 22, 2008
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U.S. greenhouse gas emissions dropped in 2006, says the Department of Energy. So what's the big worry?
By Andrew Leonard
November 29, 2007
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President Bush wants to leave American families to the mercy of profit-run healthcare -- a practical and moral failure.
By George Lakoff and Glenn W. Smith
October 20, 2007
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A new transcript reveals the president, on the brink of the Iraq invasion, full of faith, calm and unyielding optimism.
By Mark Danner
October 18, 2007
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The wingnuts are savaging 12-year-old Graeme Frost and his family because they don't think he should get healthcare through SCHIP.
By Joan Walsh
October 9, 2007
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How formula companies watered down a federal public health campaign.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
August 31, 2007
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This is not a bailout. Repeat: This is not a bailout. But somewhere, FDR is smiling.
By Andrew Leonard
August 31, 2007
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As Iraq dies, Bush is falling back on his old standby: Patriotic blackmail. But this time it won't work.
By Gary Kamiya
August 28, 2007
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Throughout history, rising powers have overtaken superpowers. The United States will not prove an exception.
By Dilip Hiro
August 22, 2007
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The presidential contender says we should look into "clean coal," but she can't promise she would never support "dirty" energy.
By Amanda Griscom Little
August 20, 2007
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Will the White House's first daughter join the alleged bridal voting bloc?
By Katharine Mieszkowski
August 16, 2007
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The president swiftly changes tack and acknowledges turmoil in the markets and housing sector. And uses some big words, too.
By Andrew Leonard
August 9, 2007
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Granted new power to spy inside the U.S., the Bush administration may be doing more than eavesdropping on phone calls -- it could be watching suspects' every move.
By Tim Shorrock
August 9, 2007
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Does the president even know about the mortgage mess or the credit crunch?
By Andrew Leonard
August 8, 2007
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A White House plan to install a DOJ official with a lousy reputation on workers' rights to the powerful EEOC falters as Barack Obama and former DOJ employees protest.
By Alia Malek
July 28, 2007
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The President cares for no unitary executive but himself.
By Digby
July 25, 2007
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The House Judiciary Committee votes to hold Miers and Bolten in contempt of Congress, but the White House stands its ground.
By Julia Dahl
July 25, 2007
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The Bush administration cancels SBA loans to make its statistics
look better.
By Digby
July 25, 2007
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The Senate votes to upgrade healthcare for vets -- but don't expect changes soon.
By Julia Dahl
July 25, 2007
Bush's lame-duck climate change proposal
Planned Parenthood on Bush's budget
Don't think of a sick child
Bush "at peace" waging war
Right-wing bullies pick on children
The waning power of the War Myth
Seizing American supremacy
Hillary Clinton: Coal isn't going away
America under surveillance
Bush civil rights nominee under fire
Selfish lame ducks