President Bush has never had a sustained increase in his approval rating since he took office six and a half years ago. There have been only three times when he has had a significant increase in his approval rating: When the country came together immediately after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the subsequent start of [...]

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Those of you who read my July 2nd post knows that the Libby commutation was the final straw in my sincere, perhaps naive, hope that President Bush would rise above politics and bring something -anything- that I consider of value to his Presidency in the second term. I have also laid out where the President [...]

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During Tony Snow’s White House Press Briefing on Tuesday, June 3rd, he fielded 43 questions related to President Bush’s commutation of Scooter Libby and he failed to answer over 75% of them. What a dismal level of openness that the White House is displaying. How did Tony Snow manage to not answer 33 different questions? [...]

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When I put my hand on the Bible that day in January 2001, I will swear — I will swear to uphold the laws of the land. But I will also swear to uphold the honor and the integrity of the office to which I have been elected, so help me God. -George W. Bush [...]

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Loyalty to the Republican party apparently has begun to eclipse loyalty to the law. With Scooter Libby, VP Cheney’s former Chief of Staff, now convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice, rallying around him has apparently started to become a litmus test of Republican loyalty. Most of the Republican presidential candidates have avoided giving any [...]

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Whether loyalty is a virtue or a vice depends on what a person is loyal to and at what expense. George W. Bush, the man, is well known for being a loyal friend and confidant. That is something we all want in a friend. As a leader, he’s also demonstrated strong loyalty to his staff [...]

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