Bush Labels Aide Rice the ‘Unsticker’

President Bush gave his national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, a new job description Tuesday: the White House’s ”unsticker.” …

”The role of the national security adviser is to not only provide good advice to the president, which she does on a regular basis,” the president said during a Rose Garden news conference, “… but her job is also to deal inter-agency and to help unstick things that may get stuck. That’s the best way to put it. She’s an unsticker.”

The Village Voice: Nation: Mondo Washington: Abortion Rites by James Ridgeway

Observers speak in amazement of the neoconservatives’ ascendancy in setting Bush foreign policy. It is nothing compared with the Christian fundamentalist sweep under way in Washington across a range of domestic issues reaching directly into everyday life in America. We’re coming close to turning the governance of the nation over to a marginalized group within the Christian community.

The Village Voice: Nation: Mondo Washington: Bush Boys Play Doctor by James Ridgeway

Is there a doctor in the White House? George W. Bush promised to get the government off our backs, but the federal presence has grown, not shrunk. Now he adds yet one more chore, that of doctor of last resort. …

[This] could result in a backlash from conservatives who have ceaselessly preached the sanctity of the family and making government smaller. It exposes the rent in the Republican right between the libertarian-minded get-the-government-off-our-backs crowd and the Christian advocates of a strong central state who want to hammer home their social policies on the local level, too.

The Village Voice: Nation: Mondo Washington: Dems for Death by James Ridgeway

[S]ix of the nine candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination are for the death penalty. Only Dennis Kucinich, Al Sharpton, and Carol Moseley Braun are in outright opposition.

Boston.com / News / Politics / Bush to stake bid for reeelection on peace, security

Bush used the news conference, only the 10th of his presidency, to defend his policies and lay out what will be a central theme in his reelection bid. The tightly controlled news conference in the Rose Garden was also notable because it was held on the heels of some of the deadliest and most well-coordinated attacks during the US-led occupation of Iraq. …

”I will defend my record at the appropriate time and look forward to it,” Bush said. ”I’ll say that the world is more peaceful and more free under my leadership, and America is more secure. And that will be how I begin describing our foreign policy.”

CNN.com – White House pressed on ‘mission accomplished’ sign – Oct. 29, 2003

Attention turned Tuesday to a giant ”Mission Accomplished” sign that stood behind Bush aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln when he gave the speech May 1.

The president told reporters the sign was put up by the Navy, not the White House. …

Navy and administration sources said that though the banner was the Navy’s idea, the White House actually made it.

Remember the campaign commercial taxpayers paid for? Now, the Commander and Chief says the buck stopped at the Pentagon. Sure. mjh

mjh’s Weblog Entry – 05/23/2003: Keepers of Bush’s image

George W. Bush’s ”Top Gun” landing on the deck of the carrier Abraham Lincoln will be remembered as one of the most audacious moments of presidential theater in American history. But it was only the latest example of how the Bush administration, going far beyond the foundations in stagecraft set by the Reagan White House, is using the powers of television and technology to promote a presidency like never before. …

Keepers of Bush image lift stagecraft to new heights by Elisabeth Bumiller, New York Times, Friday, May 16, 2003

”The environmental extremists and their liberal friends in the press would have you believe that this President does not have a good environmental record when he has the best record of any president in history.” – James Inhofe, Republican Senator

Is Inhofe that ignorant or just a liar? mjh

NPR : Senate Democrats Clear Way for Leavitt Confirmation

Senate Democrats Clear Way for Leavitt Confirmation
»from Morning Edition, Tuesday , October 28, 2003
The full Senate is now expected to confirm Utah Republican Gov. Mike Leavitt as the next Environmental Protection Agency administrator. Senate Democrats had blocked the nomination to protest the Bush administration’s environmental record. NPR’s David Welna reports.

Contact James M. Inhofe – U.S. Senator – Oklahoma

”A lie repeated often enough becomes the truth.” – Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s Minister for Propaganda