James Baker

Bush's stairway to paradise Bush's stairway to paradise

Hoping that history will somehow vindicate him, the president has entered a phase of decadent perversity.
By Sidney Blumenthal Sep 20, 2007

  • Quote of the day

    How John McCain is like Ronald Reagan.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski February 28, 2008

  • Dithering Democrats

    Six months ago, the new Congress missed its chance to shift the debate on Iraq -- and to avoid this week's defeat on a timetable for withdrawal.
    By Joe Conason May 25, 2007

  • Sandra Day O'Connor: Why I left the Supreme Court

    And why Ruth Bader Ginsburg doesn't relish being the only woman left serving there.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski February 5, 2007

  • Still grave and deteriorating

    While James Baker preaches to give escalation a chance, Congress searches for the means to stop Bush's war in Iraq.
    By Walter Shapiro January 31, 2007

  • Baker, Christopher to chair war powers panel

    If Bush ignored the Iraq Study Group, how is he going to feel about this commission's work?
    By Tim Grieve February 28, 2007

  • Shuttle without diplomacy

    After signaling support for James Baker's Iraq proposals, Condi caved and stood faithfully by the president's failing policies -- assuring her irrelevance, and that of the State Department.
    By Sidney Blumenthal January 10, 2007

  • Behind Bush's "new way forward"

    A battered group of neocons delivered the president his latest war plan, letting him reject the grave warnings of the Iraq Study Group and deny that we're losing the war.
    By Sidney Blumenthal December 20, 2006

  • A bombshell with a long fuse

    The Iraq Study Group report may be DOA. But it shows the Washington establishment is finally confronting reality in the Middle East.
    By Gary Kamiya December 12, 2006

  • Military readiness lowest since Vietnam War

    Expert advisors to the Iraq Study Group say the U.S. military now faces a cold, hard truth: It can't muster many more combat troops for the war.
    By Mark Benjamin December 8, 2006

  • Will Bush choose his new friends over his old?

    The president's Shiite allies in Iraq really don't like some of James Baker's Sunni-friendly suggestions.
    By Juan Cole December 8, 2006

  • The last neocon

    The Iraq Study Group shot down Bush's failed war strategy. Yet John McCain stubbornly supports it -- calling for more troops and promising unattainable victory.
    By Joe Conason December 8, 2006

  • On Baker, the White House gets a little snippy

    "Jim Baker can go back to his day job."
    By Tim Grieve December 7, 2006

  • Will Bush listen to reason?

    Victory in Iraq is out of reach. But at least the recommendations of the bipartisan Baker Commission could help the U.S. find an exit strategy.
    By Walter Shapiro December 7, 2006

  • Beating off the rescue party

    Just as he ignored accurate intelligence on Iraq, Bush will dismiss the Baker Commission's tough-minded proposals for salvaging his botched war.
    By Sidney Blumenthal December 7, 2006

  • Can Bush change course? It's the question Baker won't answer

    A punt and then a dodge from the Iraq Study Group member who probably knows best.
    By Tim Grieve December 6, 2006

  • The madness of George

    The president's likely refusal to pursue the diplomatic solutions recommended by the Iraq Study Group is simply senseless.
    By Joe Conason December 1, 2006

  • No graceful exit

    We blundered into Iraq for made-in-America reasons. Now our absorption in domestic politics will dictate our blundering out.
    By Walter Shapiro December 1, 2006

  • Is there still time to save Iraq?

    Sources involved in the Baker group's deliberations worry that their report is "too late."
    By Tim Grieve November 30, 2006

  • Leaving Iraq? Not so fast

    Early signs indicate that Democrats will be very cautious about redeployment, and they want to make sure W. takes the blame.
    By Mark Benjamin November 22, 2006

  • Condi's Iraq surprise

    In a secret end run around Cheney and Rumsfeld, the secretary of state pressed Bush to back the Iraq Study Group -- and change the course of the war.
    By Mark Benjamin November 17, 2006

  • All the father's men

    Bush family guardians James Baker and others are trying to rescue "Sonny" from his failed Middle East policies. Will he listen this time?
    By Sidney Blumenthal November 16, 2006

  • Fall of the house of kitsch

    Like Haggard and other GOP cultural warriors, Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld were empty historical characters -- faux "war heroes" who trafficked in style over substance.
    By Sidney Blumenthal November 8, 2006

  • Replaying GOP racism

    Ken Mehlman's cynical effort to inflame white bigotry in Tennessee is no different from what the Republicans did in their infamous 1988 "Willie Horton" ad.
    By Joe Conason October 27, 2006

  • Bush's policy quagmire

    The president is already signaling he'll disregard James A. Baker III's recommendations for reshaping U.S. policy in the Middle East. But will Baker sit still?
    By Sidney Blumenthal October 26, 2006
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