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Bush's Legacy: A Conservative Court
Tweet Share on Facebook June 27, 2007 CommentThose of us who have maintained that President Bush will leave only a string failures as his legacy are mistaken. He has left us with a conservative Supreme Court, possibly for a number of years. He would consider that an accomplishment.
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Gitmo Closing: an Easy Call for Bush
Tweet Share on Facebook June 25, 2007 CommentThe lines appear to be drawn on closing the country's notorious prison at Guantánamo Bay.
Robert Gates and Condoleezza Rice are for it; Dick Cheney and Alberto Gonzales are against it.
This should be an easy choice for President Bush, the so-called decider, who says he wants to shut it down—but not yet. He is not deciding.
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Bloomberg a Long Shot at Best
Tweet Share on Facebook June 21, 2007 CommentFor those counting on a Mayor Michael Bloomberg's candidacy as a paved road to the White House, hedge your bets and take a deep breath.
Don't get me wrong. Bloomberg has a remarkable record in New York City. He's a leader who knows what he's doing and how to get things done.
However, the political field is strewn with third-party or independent candidates who try to buck the two-party system. Even when the major candidates are considered weak, outsiders are shunned.
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Don't Blame Democrats for Congressional Inaction
Tweet Share on Facebook June 18, 2007 CommentIn recent polls, voters express almost as much unhappiness with the Democratic controlled Congress as they do with President Bush.
Some of the anger at Congress is deserved. The Democrats have been unable to move much of the agenda they talked about so earnestly in last year's campaign. Their rhetoric on the still disastrous war in Iraq has failed to produce much more than rhetoric.
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Sen. Tom Coburn: Resolute and Right
Tweet Share on Facebook June 14, 2007 CommentSen. Tom Coburn, a resolute conservative Republican from Oklahoma, is winning my respect. Please don't faint, liberal readers, before reading on.
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Laura Is the Only Valuable Woman for Bush
Tweet Share on Facebook June 13, 2007 CommentPresident Bush should thank his wife every day.
Why? Because she is about the only woman in the Bush inner circle who has not been a big disappointment. Check the list:
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Cheney: The Worst Ever
Tweet Share on Facebook June 11, 2007 Comment (1)Vice President Cheney may go down in history as one of the worst, if not the worst, ever to hold the job in the nation's proud history.
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Gates Sticks Up for the Press
Tweet Share on Facebook June 6, 2007 CommentLet's hear it for Bob Gates, the secretary of defense, who had the temerity to suggest that the press was not the enemy of the military.
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A Summons for Al Gore
Tweet Share on Facebook June 4, 2007 CommentIn a recent column in the New York Times, the conservative David Brooks insinuated that Al Gore was too brainy, perhaps too smart, to be president.
Huh?
After more than six years of a president who is inflexible, incurious, and incompetent, it might be just the right time for an Al Gore.
John W. Mashek covered politics in Washington for four decades with U.S. News & World Report, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and the Boston Globe. His primary beats were Congress, the White House, and national politics. He covered every presidential election from 1960 to 1996. He was a panelist in three televised presidential debates in 1984, 1988, and 1992.
