Bush rooting for Obama

By all accounts, including the president’s, the postelection courtesies extended by George W. Bush and his people to Barack Obama and his team have included everything short of rolling out a welcome mat in front of the White House. “I worked hard to make this transition a smooth transition; I want him to succeed,” Bush [...]

Bush loses ground with military families

A majority disapprove of the president’s handling of the war in Iraq and are more in line with the views of the general public.
Families with ties to the military, long a reliable source of support for wartime presidents, disapprove of President Bush and his handling of the war in Iraq, with a majority concluding the [...]

Reid aims to block recess appointments

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., in a showdown with the White House over executive branch nominations, Friday refused to formally adjourn the chamber for a planned two-week Thanksgiving break to thwart President Bush’s ability to make recess appointments.
Rather than taking a full break, Reid employed a rarely used parliamentary tactic of scheduling “pro forma” [...]

In Congress: Spies, lies and FISA

As Democratic lawmakers try to repair a deeply flawed bill on electronic eavesdropping, the White House is pumping out the same fog of fear and disinformation it used to push the bill through Congress this summer. President Bush has been telling Americans that any change would deny the government critical information, make it easier for [...]

Republicans have a right to be singing the blues

For Republican voters, the political news these days goes from bad to worse. And much of it is the fault of the GOP leadership and President Bush, who isn’t up for election again but nonetheless insists on playing a strange hand of his own. His veto of a bipartisan effort to expand help for low-income [...]

Student newspaper editor may be fired over four words

Hundreds of students turned out at Colorado State University to speak their minds on whether the student newspaper’s editor should lose his job over four words.
About 300 people crowded into a classroom Wednesday night, with another 200 or so spilling into the hall, to discuss a column that read simply — “Taser this: F**k Bush.” [...]