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...Foundation president Langdale said names of contributors will not be released because some donors prefer anonymity. He also would not disclose the exact total raised thus far. But other sources reported commitments totaling more than a third of the $300 million projected for the George W. Bush Presidential Center, which will include a museum and research institute to be built on a 25-acre parcel...
...Langdale said the Bush center will not be used to "defend or promote something that he did in the past" but will offer a record to help future generations learn about what happened during a presidency, so they make better decisions." "History will judge," he said...
...House and Senate Republican leaders have their way, Saturday's gathering at Pie-Tanza, a strip-mall pizza joint in Arlington, Va., will be remembered as the beginning of the rebirth of the Grand Old Party. In addition to pizza, the venue, selected by the freshly born, center-leaning National Council for a New America (NCNA), served up symbolism: suburban areas like this one, on the outskirts of Washington, were GOP bastions not so long ago, and they'll need to come back to the fold for a Republican resurgence. Pie-Tanza was also small enough to make the crowd...
...protesters aren't the only ones who dislike the idea of the Republican Party's moving to the center, even though almost all of the 51 House seats the party has lost in the past two elections have come from moderate districts. "Democrats gained power by going to the most liberal Senator in the U.S. Senate, and they ran him for the presidency and they won," Laura Ingraham, a conservative talk-radio host said on Fox News Sunday. "They were relentlessly attacking George [W.] Bush for several years from the left. They didn't move to the middle...
...high school or college," Stephen Santelli, 28, told the crowd to applause in asking a question about education standards. "Look at what happened in November," Santelli lamented to reporters after the event. "John McCain was basically Democrat-light, and we lost the election. Move too much to the center and you lose the base...