Dick Cheney took a little jab at my book about him on Sunday’s Face the Nation. He had a pretty good line, I thought:
SCHIEFFER: How do you judge your relationship with the president right now? And I say that because Barton
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In New Memoir, Dick Cheney Tries to Rewrite History
Early critics have argued that Dick Cheney’s forthcoming memoir, held under strict embargo until its official release on Aug. 30, is a predictable reprise of old arguments. Like most examples of the genre, In My Time has plenty …
Articles of Faith: Did Austerity Politics Kill Compassionate Conservatism?
In the wake of the debt-ceiling debate, young voters might find it hard to believe that just ten years ago, “compassionate conservative” was a mantle worn with a straight face by many GOP leaders. In fact, you could argue that …
2012 Scramble: Who Loses If Rick Perry Gets In?
With each passing week, Texas Governor Rick Perry seems to be inching closer to a run for the presidency. His supporters have been calling around to social conservatives urging them to keep their powder dry. Conservative kingmakers have begun to discuss Perry as the only one who checks both the “conservative” and “electability” …
Bush’s Torture Lawyer Claims Credit for bin Laden’s Death, Criticizes Seals
More Bush administration officials associated with the program of compliance-inducing “enhanced interrogation techniques” are coming out of the woodwork to claim a measure of credit for Osama bin Laden’s death.
The Politics of bin Laden: Obama Aspires to ‘Do Big Things’
Shortly after hearing confirmation on Sunday that Osama bin Laden was dead, President Barack Obama walked down to chief of staff Bill Daley’s West Wing office to discuss what he would say in his address to the nation.
The …
Political Vindication in Obama’s Bin Laden Speech
This is an exciting day–I can’t remember ever feeling jubilant about someone’s death before–and it’s probably lame to start dissecting the politics. Especially since the basic politics are no-duh obvious: This is a really great day for President Obama. But since this is supposed to be a blog about politics, and the dissections have …
WW W. D?
Regular Swamp readers will have noticed that I have been on a bit of a hiatus of late. My mother died suddenly and two weeks ago. While I’m still immersed in family issues, I couldn’t watch the flood of GOP responses to President Obama’s speech on Libya go through my inbox unremarked. I received statement after statement hammering …
The Assasination Attempts Against George W. Bush and Bill Clinton
Marc Ambinder has written an amazing piece about the operations of the U.S. Secret Service. You should take the time to read it all, and not just because he highlights two under-documented moments from recent presidential history: Apparent attempted assassinations of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush on foreign soil.
During a speech Bush
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George W. Bush Warns Of Nativism, 1920s Style Immigration Backlash
In 1924, the U.S. Congress passed a law that created a quota for the number of immigrants that could be admitted to the U.S. from any given country. The math worked out like this: Between 1924 and 1927, the annual number of immigrants from any nation could not exceed 2 percent of the number of foreign-born residents from that country in …
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Bring it On?
Former Bush Deputy Commissar for Rove-Inspired Propaganda Pete Wehner has weighed in on the President’s “kick ass” comment to Matt Lauer and he was just shocked–shocked–by it. I agree it was pretty stupid and transparent: it smacked of Obama trying to prove that he was really, really pissed off about the oil spill. He probably is, but …
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Sky Still Falling
Pete Wehner, the former Bush Assistant Commissar for Pretentious Propaganda, has taken a break from his near-daily attacks on E.J. Dionne to predict once again, the imminent collapse of the Obama Administration:
The Obama presidency is struggling badly right now — and things will, I think, get worse rather than better.
The cause for …