04 December 2006
02 December 2006
30 November 2006
May I Quote You, Mr. President? A selection of 50 quotes from President George W. Bush, for entertainment or meditation
Despite everything, Bush is staying the course
The conventional wisdom in the immediate aftermath of the mid-term election was that President Bush -- humbled by a vote of no confidence, hobbled by a deepening crisis in Iraq -- would turn away from the neoconservatism of Vice President Cheney and the hyper-partisanship of Karl Rove.
It was said that he would turn to his father's team. There was to be a course correction, in Iraq and elsewhere.
But the conventional wisdom may have underestimated the president's stubbornness -- and Cheney and Rove's tenacity.
Because at today's press conference in Jordan, following his abbreviated meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, Bush made it abundantly clear that he is waving off the rescue attempt by longtime Bush family fixer James A. Baker III. He'd rather stay the course












