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The Great Bush Leadership Casualties: U.S. Edition

By | 01.19.09 | 12:00 am

RELATED: Bush’s leadership failures, foreign edition.

Two weeks ago, Florida’s former Gov. Jeb Bush announced that he wouldn’t run for Senate in 2010. A sense of sad Republican resignation swirled through the conservative movement. It was a shame, many thought, that the fumbling More…

Obama to Send Bipartisan Team to G-20 Summit

By | 11.12.08 | 1:19 pm

With news that President-elect Barack Obama will not attend President George W. Bush’s summit on the global financial crisis, onlookers might be forgiven for wondering, “What’s the point?”

Bush is leaving office in two months, and the responsibility for formulating a policy to manage the world’s economic More…