>> i never said anything like that about george w. bush. i defy anybody to find it. i disagree with a lot of george bush's policies, starting with the war in iraq. >> so what is different? >> let me tell you. i know that george w. bush loves this country and i know he was trying to do what he thought was best for this country. i just think he went in the wrong direction. i don't touch on something very important. and that is politics -- and i talk about this last night. politics and pros, local bookstore here with a big crowd. in the early days of this country, if there had been talk shows in those days, yeah, george washington would have been reviled. politics was not pretty in the days of the founding fathers. probably the ugliest presidential election we ever had was 1800 between thomas jefferson and john adams. now they didn't do it so much as their supporters did. but after lincoln's assassination, particularly i think, things got to the point where okay, we disagree with their policies, but we don't attack them personally. we've come full circle. now we're back

when george w. bush was in the white house. and if you recall, they suspended the campaign, and george w. bush called a meeting at the white house and called john mccain and barack obama, candidates, in to say, what can we do about this? whatever you say about barack obama, he did not cause the financial meltdown. he wasn't in office at all. he's still trying to dig us out of it. just a sample of where they don't care about the facts anymore. they just throw this crap out there. and you saw these people there, they love it, they stand up, they don't even think. i find it very amusing. back to your question about, look. i was really worried about president obama's re-election. because the economy not moving, coming back as fast, unemployment up 10%. president obama, i didn't think -- he wasn't forceful enough. he was spending too much time again dealing with these republicans. he wasn't putting his message out there. he lost the fight over the debt ceiling, i thought. had to give up and extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest peop

and colleagues, that this amendment is going to utilize the procedures set forth by president george w. bush on april 30, 2004 with regard to the permitting of the pipeline. the amendment would require approval and permitting processes follow clearly understand processes established by president george w. bush. my friend notice majority who have been pushing so hard on this issue are concerned about the amount of time it's been taking to approve the permit to build this pipeline. in the executive order in question, president bush established a timely process in which an issue like this can be considered. agencies can be consulted regarding the permit application are required to submit their views within 90 days. the environmental review can be completed, and expert who know about the subject and project like this can and will be consulted. and it will be dealt with by agencies with greater expertise than by the state department on matter of the permitting that will go forward. instead of allowing this process to play out, congress has chosen to rush the administration, even though there are

guest: i never said anything like that about george w. bush. t me tell you, george bush loves this country. i know he was trying to do what he thought was best for the country. i think he went in the wrong direction. i talked about this last night. in the early days of this country, if there had been talk shows, politics was not pretty in the days of the founding fathers. the ugliest presidential election was 1800 between thomas jefferson and john adams. after lincoln's assassination, things got to the point where we disagree with their policies, but we do not attack them personally. we have come full circle. i do not think it is good for our democracy. good morning. caller: good morning. i am so angry because you democrats, i do not what you call yourselves progressives. guest: i call myself a liberal. progressives are a liberal who is afraid of being truthful about who they really are. caller: look what is going on in this country. ok? host: thank you. guest: the president has gone out of his way with this republican members of congress to try

now, many times under clinton, under george w. bush, and under president obama, senior americans have met with the russians, have given detailed power point presentations and other kinds of discussions to demonstrate, i think, very persuasively that there's no way that these systems could seriously degrade a russian attack, not that we want the russians to attack. we want the russians to feel comfortable that the retaliatory capability is not threatened. remember, if you have ten interceptors and works perfectly. if you attack it with 11 missiles, you're going to win. so you can overwhelm the system. you can confuse the system with chaff and declaws of various kinds. you can blind the radars. you can now use cyber against the communication systems. there are many things you can do to try to defense an abm system. and art out that, i think, by my colleagues. the administration decided, after many meetings, consultations, memos, and other activities and consulting with many experts of a variety of persuasions, to modify the approach. and

united states because they thought our president was a threat to world peace and had taken off george w. bush on them and then occupied our streets and bomb dissidents in the sky with drones that a hell of a lot of americans would be out on the streets shooting at their mexican or canadian occupiers how could george w. bush have thought it would be any different when he began the invasion occupation of afghanistan. well i mean as far as beginning the invasion i think it did come from nine eleven so that he had a reason you know if the u.s. attacked if of antakya been launched on mexico city from the u.s. that might have given mexico more justification in doing it but certainly we've seen that a lot of the ways that occupation of afghanistan have been carried out and especially the the light footprint which with with which the u.s. went in and especially the distraction of the iraq war have have created a situation that was that of continuing on tenable security for now more than a decade and and afghans are understandably upset about this is the burning of the qur'an as the last straw and not

"george w. bush when he was governor said that if a family planning anything, it is, public health manner." "we would have had a million more but when it pregnancies and nearly half of them would have been abortions." if you are against abortion, why would you be against birth control? >> the only reason it has become an issue amongst republicans is that santorum is living in the 50's and he makes it an issue. i don't see any of the other candidates who make it a issue. remember the earlier debate when abc's stephanopoulos asked about contraception? romney said, "what the hell is this about?" settled issue. instead of doing the kennedy thing, i am a catholic but i don't take orders from the vatican, end story -- he does not say end of story, he keeps talking about it. when santorum is out of the race, unless he wins the nomination, i hope it will buy as an issue. >> santorum had a golden opportunity. this was a chance for him to talk about manufacturing, his grandfather story, speak to blue-collar re

when george w. bush was runningng for reelection, the price of gas went up?experienced the dominant question was unemployment. there had been a tremeous drop in unemployment and the trajecry was headed down with a reelectionon, and a growth rate was 6%. today is what we 7% >> which m makes my point that gas prices are not determined to of withth an election. >> we a how did this small colorado town get through tough economic times? freight rail. it attracted large companies, like vestas. we built four factories to make turbine blades towers, and genetors. creating over venteen hundndred jobs. then suppliers, stores more companies followed, creating more jobs. economists call that the ripple effect. i call it the freight rail effect. freight rail connects ery corner of america, bringing jobs and economic growth along for the ride. visit freightrailworks.org. >> i have a body, which is my right to control. >> she was fious about a propos virginia legislation that would have required women seeking abortions to undergo ultrasasound imaging by way of ginal inserti

first, president george w. bush, for example, made 141 such appointments. second, the supreme court has never spoken on the issue. and a few lower courts that have considered this issue have not done a constitutional analysis. so the questions on the table today are not encrusted with complex precedents and these appointments are almost certain to be taken to the supreme court, not only because of the reasons you'll hear today in the discussion but also because the policy stakes are high. in the cordray case, the question of whether the consumer protection bureau will be able to function if the director was not poinappointed and the same true for the labor relations bored. the policies of both groups are contesting the authority of the president to make these appointments. if they win those cases, the agencies may not be able to act and they are interim actions may be held to be invalid. fourth, an argument can be made that the senate has considered cordray and rejected him when they could not get together 60 votes to bring up the nomination for debate. so

he's formally dean card served as chief of staff to george w. bush from 2000 to 2006. during the bush administration, he was assistant to the president, deputy chief of staff and the 11th secretary of transportation. thank you, sir. [ applause ] >> thank you. i'll give you a boston accented howdy. it's great to see you. and it is a spectacular program tonight, and we appreciate warren finch welcoming us all here. yes, i'm the acting dean of the bush school, and the bush school at texas a&m is a graduate school. we're turning out the finest and best graduates that go into public service. we're so proud of the quality of the students and the performance of the graduates because they have earned a great reputation for that school. but i'm not here tonight to talk about the bush school. i am here tonight to pay praise to president bush, and i appreciate him bringing his library and museum and creating the school here at texas a&m, but this is really a pretty special program. on november 11th, 267 years ago, there was a woman born who had a pretty great legacy for this count

but since you raised george w. bush, let's talk about that many americans and many egyptians and others in the middle east where a very happy about the connection of barack hussein obama. -- the election of him. celebrating the new way we are going to do business in the middle east and the new way we are going to be doing business in that part of the world, and then when the real test comes, where re-staff and onboard versus the people, and then we get we at the knees, so ss or may. i know you said last night that in the end, people were just happy where mr. obama and where mrs. clinton actually came down, but there were some rocky days, so let's talk about mr. obama specifically. >> they were happy that they took the stand. it was not the reason why this was succeeding. we did not have that during the revolution time. the problem of mistrust requires action. in order to rebuild trust, it is not speeches, it is not media. this will require work. this is an institution base, not just making the key decisions. you have to

george w. bush was running for reelection, the price of gas went up -- >> reagan experience dominant question of unemployment, and there was a tremendous drop in unemployment, and the growth rate of the country was 6%. it is today to 1.7%. >> which makes my point that gas prices are not determinative election. >> we agree. >> that's nice. >> i have a body, which is my right to control. >> she was furious about proposed virginia legislation that would have required women seeking abortions to undergo all for sound imaging by way of vaginal insertion. that part of the bill died after gov. bob mcdonnell came out against it. across the river in maryland, the maryland senate approved gay marriage. something happens in either direction when you cross that river. >> one is a red state, what is a blue state. except, though, on the question of reproductive rights. virginia has been very, very good on this subject. although the governor move in one direction, he had to step back on the curb as well when he got

in 2001, just days into his presidency, george w. bush announced his education plan at a white house event. he is joined by rod page, who had just been nominated by the president to be education secretary. [ applause ] >> thank you very much. thank you. good afternoon. it is my privilege tthis point in time. i have known president bush for many years. i have had the opportunity to work wi h distinguished himself by his commitment to quality education in public schools. he got results in texas as governor. he'll get results across america as president. today takes the first step toward becoming the education president. as you will see, it is based on the high standards and accountability and measures for which he always stood. president bush confirmed that education is his first priority. i'm humbled to introduce him and pledge to get the results the president and america expects. mr. president. [ applause ] >> thank you thank you. thank you, mr. secretary. i appreciate you being here. good to see a former secretary of education here. lama

george w. bush, 37. president clinton, 53. president george w. bush, 141. so far, president obama has made 26. but once we have -- reason they didn't exist before 1980 is that there was no need for intrasession appointments by the president because the nate acted within one, two, or three days when the executive branch nomination was over. if there is a session there is no lack of availability in the session. as a matter of accommodation i'm less troubled to using the recess appointment clause that has been pending before the senate for a good while than i am in using it with respect to a nomination that has not been pending before the senate. the legality, illegality, i don't think would change one way or the other. those would either stand or fall together. as a prudential matter making it a combination. the reason being if the nomination has been before the senate, the senate has had it within its power to engage within the function. in fact, it chose not to do so. the senate has never had a called up and debated what advice to give the president on the

george w. bush's budget director, george w. bush who raised the debt ceiling seven times. which mitt romney never complained about. presidents inevitably raise the debt ceiling. republicans do it. democrats do it. george w. bush did it. ronald reagan did it. mitt romney has never seen it as a scandal before. now, though, he's try to make a scandal about it hoping nobody can bear to look at the pictures while we're also listening to him talk. how about you, senator portman? you're just going to go to appear at that event with mitt romney, with a big smile on your face and not going to peep while your candidate lies about your record? really, senator portman? you're happy to take credit for something you didn't do? ♪ made sure his credit score did not go bad ♪ ♪ with a free-credit-score-dot-com ♪ ♪ app that he had ♪ downloaded it in the himalayas ♪ ♪ while meditating like a true playa ♪ ♪ now when he's surfing down in chile'a ♪ ♪ he can see when his score is in danger ♪ ♪ if you're a mobile type on the go ♪ ♪ i suggest you take a tip from my bro ♪ ♪ and download the app that

george w. bushuffered a loss to john mccain on the strength of crossover voting. if you you want on sound smart, tell your friends in 2000 even with the democratic nomination also up for grabs, crossover democrats made up an estimated 17% of the vote in the michigan republican primary. george w. bush received 67% of the republican vote, mccain beat him in the final tally 50-43 after getting 80% of the vote cast by crossover democrats. enough of the real news. let's huddle up to talk about the most unexpected bromance of the 2012 political season. mitt romney and kid rock. kid rock joined romney on stage for his final event in michigan last night performing the campaign song born free live to open for romney. >> he said, first of all, he said if you're elected president, will you help me help the state of michigan. i said i would. he said if you're elected president, will you help me help the city of detroit. and i said i would. and then i turned to him and i said, by the way, given the fact i'm will

now president george h. w. bush the man and his mission. >> i don't think you will ever find a more thoughtful or consider rat person than george bush. >> president bush, he's probably the most complete person i have ever met. >> if you look at his history, he was a member of congress, he is smart, he's humble. >> he was chairman of his party. he was ambassador to the u.n. >> he is funny, he is spontaneous. >> he was second to china before we had an embassy and he was director of central intelligence. >> i remember when we first started the campaign for president in 1979 george had this speech that he would give about the obligation and the promises and the rewards of public service. he would go out and say my father inculcated into me a sense of public service. i said george, don't say inculcated. people don't understand what that means. the average voter isn't going to get it. >> as vice president for 8 years anz as president of the united states george bush's mission was to make sure everyone got it. >> my friend

you do have a problem. >> and mark, i hear some chuckles around the table, but i can tell you, george w. bushdropped to 30% and even lower after katrina. we were working with an outfit called christian ministries in pensacola, florida, driving relief over every day to mississippi and louisiana after hurricane katrina. and it was the evangelicals working with us through a church that started taking the bush bumper stickers off the back of their cars after two or three weeks because they were saying, where is the presidents? where is the government? why are these poor people suffering the way they are? this cuts to romney's evangelical support, as well. there's something called matthew 25 that talks about caring for the poorest among us. and mitt seems to have a very blind spot there. >> well, that's exactly right. and one of the messages that then candidate bush was communicating that really attracted a lot of people like me and a lot of evangelicals, of course, was his notion of compassionate conservatism. and that was a very profound idea that have a lot of attraction for voters across the d

under george w. bushpublicans were trying to reach out to latino voters in a way they hadn't before. some of the advances they had made, and clearly they were reversed. >> it's not -- cubans don't need immigration reform. puerto ricans are americans by birth. you say it's very diverse. you don't have one hispanic community. there are many communities, but people feel offended by the tone, attacked in the community, and it brings people out to call on one issue, which is immigration. if the tone doesn't change, hispanics are going to go, president obama, even though he hasn't delivered on immigration reform, has over 60% of the vote. >> and george w. bush, the republican has to get somewhere up in there in the national elections, especially as the population grows. and that's why marco rubio became such an interesting player. he didn't endorse, why jeb bush stayed out of the endorsement game in florida. >> he did say that anybody -- the person who wins in florida is going to become the nominee. >> he also

george w. bush's budget director, george w. bush who raised the debt ceiling seven times. romney never complained about. presidents inevitably raise the debt ceiling. republicans do it. democrats do it. george w. bush did it. ronald reagan did it. mitt romney has never seen it as a scandal before. now, though, he's try to make a scandal about it hoping nobody can bear to look at the pictures while we're also listening to him talk. how about you, senator portman? you're just going to go to appear at that event with mitt romney, with a big smile on your face and not going to peep while your candidate lies about your record? really, senator portman? you're happy to take credit for something you didn't do? ♪ get a free balcony upgrade when you book now. limited time offer. some restrictions apply. our machines help identify early stages of cancer and it's something that we're extremely proud of. you see someone who is saved because of this technology, you know that the things that you do in your life, matter. if i did have an opportunity to meet a cancer survivor, i'm sure i c

office: profiles of the national security advisers and the presidents they served from jfk to george w. bush." professor destler, what do you do here at the university of maryland? >> guest: i teach in the maryland school of public policy which is a graduate school which prepares people for government is the service. >> host: and you're also the director of the international security and economic policy program? >> guest: that's right. >> host: what is that? >> guest: excuse me. the international security and economic policy program which we call isep is a part of our curriculumful we have probably 130, 140 new students come in each year, and maybe a quarter of them do what we call international security and economic policy. and that, basically, the premise is particularly with the end of the cold war we need people to have some understanding of both the security side and the economic side of foreign policy, and typically the united states hasn't had that. in fact, a course i teach on foreign policy making i argue the united states and the executive branch has two governments. it has one gro

in the middle east's that's what these guys are calling for and they're using the same writer george w. bush used at the onset of our decorated war almost ten years ago america must not ignore the threat gathering against us facing clear evidence of pearl we cannot wait for the final proof the smoking gun. that could come in the form of the mushroom cloud we fell for that nonsense hook line and sinker and as a result we lost more than three thousand soldiers a trillion dollars and the goodwill of the world that we had accumulated post nine eleven and not only have these republicans not learned from the mistakes made after a decade of war they want to make an even more egregious mistake of going to war with iran a developed first world nation with a powerful military look at these pictures from around this is not a stone age country this is not afghanistan this is not a nation gutted of its military might like iraq was this is a fully developed world power and while the iranian government is controlled by radicals in the rhetoric and posture coming from iran is seriously troubling the consequ

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. >> george w. bush re-elected. >> barack obama, president elect of the united states. >> and good evening again. you're watching a special ediction of "ac 360." primary coverage. >> the biggest contest yet in a crucial state this november. winner take all in the general election and winner take all for mitt romney tonight. >> mitt romney. florida's choice. a win that helped him look like the front runner again. >> a competitive primary does not divide us. it prepares us and we will win. >> a new setback for newt gingrich and his roller coaster campaign. >> we're going to contest every place and we're going to win, and we will be in tampa as the nominee. >> four candidates with four contests behind hem, with the fight to the nomination is just beginning. the votes are in. florida has spoken, and now the campaign goes west. >> the campaign does head west, but the story tonight is what happened in the east in florida. if you're just joining us, welcome to our "ac 360" special primary coverage. live until m

after the disasters of the george w. bush presidency had culminated in the catastrophe on wall street, the citizens of our beautiful beltway consensus plan, that we all agreed on the direction which the nation was traveling. our apartment leaders had seen this movie before in a new hole is supposed to go. the plates are shifting, conservative decades long reign was added and peered into her of legal activism was on hand. this is the unambiguous mandate of history. at least it is supposed to be as unmistakable as the gigantic crowds that gathered to hear barack obama speak as he traveled the campaign trail. you could no more defied this plot line the pundits thought and you could write checks on the bank account. now the thinking behind all of this was straightforward cause-and-effect stuff. the 2008 financial crisis had clearly discredited the conservative movement signature free-market ideas or so the story went. scandal and competence had wrecked conservatism's ethical claims. and the movement's taste for strident rhetoric

to two thousand and eight and take a long hard look at this speech is being made back then by george w. bush by people like hank paulson at the height of the financial crisis take a look at this this was when the house first rejected the seven hundred billion dollars bailout bill and the dow plunged seven hundred seventy eight points the largest one day drop in history. we've experienced significant turmoil or from natural markets in the last few days including the collapse of washington mutual and wall culture year and the failure of two major financial institutions in europe. that prices show the emperor has no clothes and still the us has too big to fail banks zombie banks propped up by the federal reserve we still just see u.s. public debt getting racked up by the trillions as unemployment is still depressed while our addiction to debt has been fed by the public purse the government stepped in to borrow and spend when the private sector collapsed and there's just so much we didn't learn and didn't change in the u.s. after the financial crisis despite all the promises of house leaders mad

senator barack obama back in two thousand and eight tocking about president george w. bush adding four trillion dollars to the debt we've known are over mine trillion dollars over. there but we are going to pay burke. dollars for every man woman and child ok responsible. yeah it sure is only the problem is that obama has added five trillion dollars to it that's in only three years into his term annualized that's almost three times what bush spent we have fifteen trillion dollars in debt national debt what punishment to leaders have if they don't do what they say at the end of the day the political system rewards complacency so to talk solutions let's bring back and karl denninger a blogger and radio host of the market ticker and author of the book leverage how cheap money will destroy the world and karl i'm really curious what incentives at all do politicians have to not lie about things like you know deficit spending an order to get elected and what incentive do they have to do anything about u.s. fiscal problems. absolutely none then what you've seen from barack obama app

after the doors the george w. bush presidency culminated in the catastrophe on wall street, the citizens of our beautiful beltway consensus land all -- we all agreed, on the direction in which the nation was traveling. our pundit leaders had seen this movie and they now how it was exposed -- supposed to go conservativeism's range was at an end and the unambiguous mandate of history, as unmistakable as the gigantic crowds that gathered to hear barack obama speak on the campaign trip. you can no more deidentify this plot line than you can write checks on an empty bank account. now, the thinking behind all of this was straightforward cause and effect stuff. the 2008 financial crisis had clearly discredited the differ movement's signature free market ideas. so-so the story went. scandal and incompetence wrecked it and rhetoric was supposedly repugnant to a new generation of voters and there's the obvious historical analogy. we had just been through a replay of the financial disaster of 1929, and now, murmured the pundits,