Posted by Christopher Preble on August 31, 2010
By Christopher Preble
President Obama will not declare “mission accomplished” in his prime-time speech on Iraq tonight, nor should he. He should not claim that a flowering democracy has been created in Iraq. He should not make unrealistic predictions about the long-term prospects for that shattered country. The war isn’t over for the 50,000 U.S. troops left behind [...]
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Tags: Bush administration, drawdown, Foreign Policy and National Security, iraqi government, iraqi sovereignty, military presence, troops in iraq, war in iraq | 
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Posted by Tad DeHaven on August 12, 2010
By Tad DeHaven
The White House Office of Management and Budget homepage currently features the following quote from the president:
President Obama says he wants to “invest in our people without leaving them a mountain of debt.”
That’s a curious statement because the Congressional Budget Office’s analysis of the president’s current budget proposal projects that publicly held debt as a [...]
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Tags: budget proposal, Bush administration, cbo, congressional budget office, debt levels, federal debt, General, white house | No Comments »
Posted by Julian Sanchez on June 29, 2010
By Julian Sanchez
A confession: For all my innumerable policy disagreements with Barack Obama, on election night 2008, I found myself cheering with the rest of the throng on U Street. I fully expected to be appalled by much of his agenda — but I had also spent years covering the Bush administration’s relentless arrogation of power [...]
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Posted by Michael F. Cannon on June 24, 2010
By Michael F. Cannon
In a move reminiscent of the George W. Bush administration, the Obama administration is cracking down on the Minerals Management Service…by changing the agency’s name.
The MMS has fallen into disrepute because, well, as E&ENews PM put it, “employees accepted gifts from oil and gas companies, participated in ‘a culture of substance abuse and promiscuity,’ and considered [...]
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Tags: Big Business, Bush administration, Cato Publications, david hyman, Energy and Environment, George W. Bush, Government and Politics, gulf of mexico, Health, Welfare & Entitlements, Humor, medicaid, Medicare, Minerals Management Service, New York Times, obama, Obama administration, Tim Carney | No Comments »
Posted by Tim Lynch on June 3, 2010
By Tim Lynch
Dana Milbank has an article about an Ashcroft address at Heritage yesterday.
Here’s an excerpt:
Ashcroft, in his own conciliatory gesture, implicitly acknowledged that he was on the wrong side in the Hamdi v. Rumsfeld detention case, in which the Supreme Court ruled against the Bush administration. “The Hamdi case was a bit of an anomaly because [...]
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Tags: american citizens, Bush administration, Foreign Policy and National Security, General, habeas corpus petitions, john ashcroft, Law and Civil Liberties, the supreme court | No Comments »
Posted by Tad DeHaven on May 26, 2010
By Tad DeHaven
Analysts across the ideological spectrum generally agree that the government’s regulatory bodies fail far too frequently. However, analysts seem to learn different lessons from this experience.
Washington Post business columnist Steve Pearlstein cites numerous examples of failure and concludes, “It’s time for the business community to give up its jihad against regulation.”
He says:
It hardly captures the [...]
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Tags: Bush, Bush administration, business columnist, federal regulatory agencies, Government, political interference, regulation, regulators, Regulatory Capture, Regulatory Studies, spending, washington, Washington Post | No Comments »
