Search

This article discusses the legacy of U.S. President George W. Bush. Key events of his presidency including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, hurricane Katrina, and the 2008 financial crisis are considered as aspects of Bush's legacy. The changing character of the executive branch of government under Bush and his Vice President Dick Cheney is also considered.

Discusses the power yielded by United States Vice-President Dick Cheney in the administration of President George W. Bush. Importance of Cheney to Bush in Congressional relations and in achieving a Conservative political agenda; Criticism of Cheney over the Iraq War reconstruction and his rightist views at a time when voters may be more interested in centrist views; His reaction to criticism; His views on Iraq; Their relations during crises, such as the September 11 terrorist attacks; His penchant for privacy.

The author argues that, contrary to the claims of the Bush administration, there was substantial intelligence prior to the war in Iraq indicating that the country had no weapons of mass destruction. "We were all wrong." David Kay, the recently resigned chief WMD hunter who has declared that it is unlikely Iraq had any weapons of mass destruction in the years before the war, uttered these words while testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee on January 28. But Kay was incorrect. Not everybody was mistaken on the question of Iraq's WMDs. Not UN inspectors, including Hans Blix, who worried about Saddam Hussein's WMD capabilities but questioned whether discrepancies in Iraq's accounting meant stockpiles existed. Not US intelligence analysts who argued that critical pieces of evidence were not solid. It was Bush, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell and other aides who missed the mark. Administration officials and other war backers have pointed to an October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate to justify their prewar statements about Iraq's unconventional weapons. In an October 7, 2002, speech in Cincinnati, Bush said Iraq had a "massive stockpile of biological weapons." The NIE said no such thing. Regarding chemical weapons, Powell said in his February 2003 UN speech the Administration's "conservative estimate" was that Saddam possessed 100 to 500 tons of "chemical weapons agent." The flawed NIE had not been as definitive. Bush and Cheney were particularly brazen when they declared that Saddam was revving up efforts to develop a nuclear bomb.

The author discusses the aspects of several threat of religious extremists preaching fanatic intolerance. It states that the decision of U.S. President Barack Obama to cease torture, to close Guantanamo , to decrease the threat of nuclear war, shows that America is willing to lead and listen. Furthermore, it points out that former Vice President Dick Cheney, states that the incidence at Abu Ghraib Prison was the work of a few sadistic prison guards.

The article discusses the presidency of U.S. President George W. Bush from 2000-2008. The authors combine a summary and of key events with descriptions of key personnel involved with the events. Topics include presidential advisers such as Vice President Dick Cheney, the Kyoto Protocol, and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

The article profiles David S. Addington, U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney's chief of staff and his longtime principal legal adviser, who is the legal mind behind the White House's war on terror. The Administration's legal strategy for the war on terror, known as the New Paradigm, rests on a reading of the Constitution that says that the President, as Commander-in-Chief, has the authority to disregard virtually all previously known legal boundaries, if national security demands it.

Comments on the order given by the Vice President Dick Cheney to shoot down a civilian airliner in Washington. Criticism against the order made by Cheney; Authorization received by Cheney from President George W. Bush; Resistance of Bush to appear before the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States.

This article presents information on U.S. politician Richard B. Cheney. Should U.S. President George W. Bush win this election, it will give him the distinction of being the first occupant of the White House to have survived naming Dick Cheney to a post in his administration. The Cheney jinx first manifested itself at the presidential level back in 1969, when former U.S. President Richard Nixon appointed him to his first job in the executive branch. It surfaced again in 1975, when former U.S. President Gerald Ford made Cheney his chief of staff and then—with Cheney's help—lost the 1976 election. George H.W. Bush, having named Cheney secretary of defense, was defeated for reelection in 1992.

The article focuses on failures of U.S. President George W. Bush's administration. Sectarian violence in Iraq, Vice President Dick Cheney's hunting accident, and the decision to sell six U.S. seaports to a company from the United Arab Emirates have all hurt the president's political sway. Republicans such as Connecticut Representative Chris Shays are finding Bush a liability as they look toward reelection.

Presents a series of news briefs related to politics in the United States. Congressmen allegedly asking U.S. intelligence officials which days would be safest in Greece during the Olympic Games; Effect of Vice President Dick Cheney using curse words; Similarities between the political strategies of John Kerry and John F. Kennedy; Others.

The author claims that the administration of President George W. Bush has so far failed to defend the decision to have Vice President Dick Cheney accompany Bush when he appears before the commission investigating the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. At his Tuesday night press conference, Bush justified appearing with Cheney as follows: "Because it's a good chance for both of us to answer questions that the 9/11 Commission is looking forward to asking us. And I'm looking forward to answering them." That was it. What was remarkable about the White House's insistence that President Bush could appear before the 9/11 Commission only with Vice President Dick Cheney at his side, however, is its apparent inability to come up with any defense whatsoever. Indeed, the most expansive answer so far offered for the dual appearance was given by designated spinner Karen Hughes on NBC's "Meet the Press" the previous week."I'm not sure what the rationale specifically was," she said, "but I think the White House believes that it is an effective use of their time." Effective use of their time? That's the opposite of the truth. Appearing together consumes an hour of time from each of Bush and Cheney; separate appearances would take up the same amount of time while allowing each to answer twice as many questions. The most revealing part of Hughes's answer, though, was her initial response that she didn't know what the rationale was. If the famously on-message Hughes doesn't know the party line, there is no party line.

This section presents brief commentary pieces on U.S. politics. The seriousness of Richard Clarke's allegations this week was matched only by the comedy of the White House's reaction to them. The former counterterrorism chief has charged that the Bush administration was weak on terrorism before September 11, 2001, and the Bushies' counterattack has been described in the press as a "ferocious assault." Here is a partial guide to the Bushies' unintentionally hilarious responses to Clarke: He's a partisan Democrat: "His best friend is Rand Beers, who is the principal adviser to the Kerry campaign," asserted White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan. He doesn't know what he's talking about: "[Clarke] was moved out of the counterterrorism business over to the cybersecurity side of things. ... He wasn't in the loop, frankly, on a lot of this stuff," Cheney told Rush Limbaugh on Monday. It's difficult to argue with the Bush administration's avowed aim of a "global democratic revolution," but it is depressingly easy to question its sincerity. The latest reminder of the mismatch between word and deed came last week in Saudi Arabia. On the eve of an official visit to Riyadh by Colin Powell, Saudi authorities rounded up and imprisoned several democracy activists who had formed a human rights group. President Bush may be pushing a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, but he has always presented himself as an opponent of gay-bashing. Alas, someone forgot to tell the Office of Special Counsel (OSC), whose website translates civil service laws into usable rules.

This section presents brief commentary pieces on U.S. politics, and quotes drawn from the news. So now we know: The man who secretly runs Washington is not Dick Cheney, or even Karl Rove--but the mumbling, disheveled speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert. At least, that's the charade the Bush administration wanted us to buy last week after Hastert said he would oppose a two-month extension requested by the independent commission investigating the September 11 attacks, even though the White House had grudgingly acceded to the commission's request on February 4. Back in August 2001, President Bush offered a much vaunted "compromise" on the question of stem cells by allowing federally funded research to continue on what he called the "more than sixty" stem-cell lines already in existence, even though scientists objected that far fewer lines were available. This week, thanks to the release of a letter House Democrats sent to the White House, it's clear the administration now understands what the scientific community has long maintained: The stem-cell compromise was a sham. "If the Democratic policies had been pursued over the last two or three years, the kind of tax increases that both Kerry and Edwards have talked about, we would not have had the kind of job growth that we've had."--Vice President Dick Cheney in a March 2 interview on MSNBC.

Discusses the outlook for peace in the Middle East under the administration of United States President George W. Bush. Plans of the President to meet with Prime Ministers Ariel Sharon of Israel and Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority in Aqaba, Jordan; Other meetings planned by President Bush to promote his 'roadmap' for peace; Discussion of U.S. strategy, American leverage in the region, and foreign policy challenges; Idea that former President George Herbert Walker Bush advised his son to use personal diplomacy; Concern of critics that Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, who urged President Bush to invade Iraq, will dictate Middle East policy.

Focuses on the policies of the administration of United States President George W. Bush concerning the environment and energy issues. Efforts of Christie Todd Whitman of the Environmental Protection Agency to strengthen regulatory standards and cut pollution from midwestern power plants; Discussion about the environmental law and legislation in the U.S.; Responsibility of Vice President Richard Cheney for the energy task force and his views on lawsuits against electricity generating midwestern utilities; Policy of Bush to relax the "new source" rule and allow the western facilities to continue operating without meeting the Clean Air Act standards; Question whether Bush will follow the policy of Whitman or Cheney.

Focuses on the underlying politics behind interests of U.S. Democrats in governmental investigations into the collapse of energy trading company Enron Corp. and revelation of corruption on the part of President George W. Bush's administration officials. Claim of the Democrats that they have learned a lesson from the Republican Party's investigations of former President Bill Clinton, when Republicans repeatedly claimed they would uncover "corruption" and then repeatedly failed to do so; Link between Bush's administration and Enron officials, including campaign contributor Kenneth Lay; Relationship between Enron and Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force.

Discusses the events that followed after the demotion of U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and dismissals of Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger and Central Intelligence Agency director William Colby by U.S. President Gerald R. Ford. Clarification of the President on the matter; Stories related to the appointment of Donald Rumsfeld as Schlesinger's successor; Fact that Rumsfeld formally accepted the position only after his old deputy and White House successor, Richard Cheney, telephoned him and said the President insisted that he take the job.

(Bloomberg) -- Republican Liz Cheney, the No. 3 House GOP leader, said she will vote to impeach Donald Trump, a major split within the party after the president's supporters stormed the Capitol last week. However when Democrats brought impeachment charges against Trump in 2019, Cheney was a staunch defender of the president. [Extracted from the article]

The article comments on the problems facing U.S. President George W. Bush. During a presidential radio address almost a week after Katrina made landfall, the president appeared to blame the catastrophe on problems that have strained state and local capabilities, omitting the role of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Vice President Dick Cheney's shooting of Austin lawyer Harry Whittington during a quaff hunt should not have posed a problem for Bush. Accidents happen. But Cheney turned the episode into a public humiliation of the president. Cheney did not call the president himself and he had an aide call the White House. Of all the incidents that have damaged the president, the most serious is the ports deal. He cannot expect the public and the Congress to accept that the ports deal has no impact on national security--especially when the Democrats have been saying all along that port security is their biggest problem.

In the article the author suggests that former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney would be a good selection for Republican presidential nominee in 2012. He believes that Cheney's conservative views on national security and experience in political office would make him more qualified than Republican politicians Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney or Sarah Palin.

The article presents quotes from U.S. Senator Barack Obama providing an example of how he is a regular guy, 71-year-old U.S. Representative John Murtha says the U.S. presidency is no old man's job and comic entertainer Craig Ferguson comments on how U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney may react to his monologue.

This article reports on political happenings in the United States in January 2007. The Democrats return to power in Congress after a twelve year absence is discussed, as well as comments made by Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy. Additional article topics include the power held by congressional committees and subcommittees, President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, the Patriot Act, and liberal politician Jerry Nadler.

Offers news briefs related to politics in the United States. Impact of the revelation of the Watergate scandal source on former White House chiefs of staff Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld; Decline of President George W. Bush's approval ratings; Focus of Bush on Social Security reform, an energy bill, and conservative judges; Report that some Democrats may approve of Associate Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia becoming chief justice; Relations between Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former Secretary of State Colin Powell.

Presents news briefs related to politics in the United States. Report that Chinese President Hu Jintao seems to be holding off on visiting North Korean leader Kim Jong Il because of North Korea's nuclear weapons program; Discussion of the policies U.S. President George W. Bush will focus on, including Social Security reforms and energy supplies; Reference to independent public opinion polls that focus on the trouble surrounding House Majority Leader Tom DeLay; Role of Vice President Dick Cheney in stopping a Democratic filibuster of Bush's judicial nominees.

Presents quotations from prominent political figures. Howard Dean on running for chairman of the Democratic National Committee; Mary Matalin on former boss Vice President Dick Cheney; President George W. Bush on the pressures of the job.

The article offers views on the second term of President George W. Bush. For the first time in a half-century, a two-term presidency will end without sending out its Vice President to seek a mandate for succession at the next election. Vice President Cheney will not run for the presidency, and everyone knows it. When these eight years are over, the Bush-Cheney Administration will simply close up shop. Nothing like that has happened since the 1950s. The five two-term administrations before this one were all followed by an election in which the big man's Veep sought the presidency on his own--a kind of third term as well as an implicit referendum on the previous two. With Cheney's renouncing presidential ambitions, it is known in advance that the Bush Administration will die in January 2009 without an heir. Late in Bush's term, it will mean terminal lame duckness, even more powerlessness than most late presidencies experience. But early in Bush's second term, the fact that Bush-Cheneyism will never have to seek popular ratification again gives Bush unique freedom of action. Which, in the hands of a President with unusually ambitious goals, will yield perhaps the most energetic--to some, the most dangerous--presidency of our lifetime.

Offers an opinion of events in the United States' news as of October 2004. Discussion of the performances of President George W. Bush and Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry in the campaign debates for the 2004 elections; Criticism of presidential candidate Ralph Nader for not supporting Kerry in the race against Bush; Criticism of Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife for their attack on Kerry for mentioning their lesbian daughter; Shortage of influenza vaccine in the United States.

Presents a humour look at the hairstyles of former U.S. presidents. Public opinion concerning the hairstyles of President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, presidential candidate John Kerry, and vice-presidential candidate John Edwards.

Presents an opinion piece regarding the skepticism surrounding the relationship between al Qaeda and Iraq in the attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001. Belief that we are not going to find answers to such questions via the 9/11 commission; Focus on Vice President Dick Cheney; Argument from Cheney that invading Iraq was the right thing to do; Argument from Senator John Kerry that the administration was deliberately misleading the American people.

The author explains what he learned about the Bush administration from Bob Woodward's new book, "Plan of Attack." Well, Bob Woodward has partially redeemed himself. His last book, "Bush at War," read like a superhero comic book mistranslated from its original Serbo-Croatian. Because Colin Powell and his aides evidently decided to tiptoe off the reservation in preparation for their long-overdue departure, the new book, "Plan of Attack," has texture.There are conflicts. Not everybody can be right about everything. And while the book does gloss over many of the Administration's most nefarious characteristics, the trust Woodward earned with his hagiographic first account put him in good stead to expand our understanding of how these people go about making their catastrophic decisions and then denying them. Here's what I learned: For foreign policy purposes, Dick Cheney is President. 2. That's too bad, because unfortunately Cheney is nuts. 3. Rumsfeld's Pentagon, led by Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith, caught Cheney's nutty fever too. 4. George W. Bush cannot be bothered to listen to the views of those with whom he disagrees, even (particularly?) people who clearly know a great deal more about the topic than he does and hold Cabinet responsibility for it. 5. Which is also too bad, because Bush lives in a dream world. 6. The United States Constitution is meaningless to these people. There's plenty more in Plan of Attack, like the Saudis playing with our elections and stuff, but those are the lowlights. Read it and weep.

These are Biblical times. The turning of the second millennium has brought war, rumors of war and all sorts of neo-Jehovian high jinks. This most publicly religious of Presidents has been set upon by a series of Old Testament prophets--first, former Treasury Secretary Paul O' Neill, ranting in the desert about the wages of fiscal irresponsibility, and now Richard Clarke, the counterterrorism expert, who evangelized before 9/11 about the al-Qaeda threat. The President fulfilled his biblical responsibility: he ignored both prophets, who then amped their rants and wrote books (these days, prophets are not averse to profits). And as with Clinton, the subsequent brouhahas have revealed the most distinctly unpleasant--and not very righteous--side of the President. Unable to defend his policies in a coherent way and unwilling to acknowledge his mistakes, Bush responds to criticism with ugliness.He doesn't mess around, either. On the day after Clarke first made his charge on 60 Minutes that before 9/11 the White House had minimized the terrorism threat, it sent out its biggest gun--the Vice President of the United States--to defend its performance. And where did Bush send Cheney to make the response on the most crucial issue of this presidency? Cheney made his case on the Rush Limbaugh radio show.

Presents the conventional wisdom around Washington on the first anniversary of American troops in Iraq. Contention that Kerry lost some popularity points as a result of Bush's attacks; Thought on Vice President Dick Cheney's attack of Kerry as weak on defense and the defense of Kerry by John McCain; Thumbs down on the war and the need for a graceful withdrawal plan; Thoughts on Spanish voters who threw out their U.S. allied government following terrorists attacks on their rail system; More.

Argues that the bipartisan panel named by U.S. president George W. Bush to study intelligence prior to the Iraq war may not be sufficiently even-handed, as a number of the nine members have ties to the Bush administration. Claim that panel co-chair Laurence Silberman is a friend of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Vice-President Dick Cheney; Claim that panel member Henry Rowen worked under Cheney at the Pentagon; Claim that panel member William Studeman contributed to the Bush campaign in 2000; Claim that panel member Charles Vest, president of MIT, has been accused by a colleague of being slow to investigate allegations of fraud at a lab that does work for the Pentagon.

Reports on the transfer of presidential powers to United States Vice President Dick Cheney during a medical procedure for President George W. Bush. Schedules of Cheney and Bush.