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Nyhan then lists on his blog specific quotes from then-Press Secretary Ari Fleisher, Vice President Dick Cheney, and President Bush, all of whom said in the early months of 2003 that the tax cuts would lead to more tax revenue...
...bear to tell it the truth about a war gone sour. Which is why the Democrats in Congress have taken to proposing increasingly radical, if futile measures to begin the end of the war ... and which is why the most sober, prominent Republicans imaginable-- Senators like Dick Lugar and Pete Domenici--have joined the Democrats in calling for a change in policy. Indeed, the President's tragic addiction to broad-brush propaganda prevented him from telling his Cleveland audience the one bit of good news emanating from Iraq in recent months--that the Iraqi version of al-Qaeda...
...Collins, Snowe, as well as the leaders, had just emerged from the caucus's weekly luncheon with Vice President Dick Cheney. During the gathering, Cheney sparred in a "vigorous debate" with several senators on why it's important to wait for Petraeus's first report on the strategy due in September. While most Republicans support the new strategy - which has resulted in the bloodiest few months since the end of "major hostilities" in 2003 - some in recent weeks have begun to defect, calling for a rethinking, or even redeployment, of U.S. troops in Iraq...
...Libby's was a case close to his heart, to say nothing of the heart of Libby's former boss Dick Cheney, who was known to feel that the conviction of his former chief of staff was an injustice in itself. So Bush decided on a measured approach to mercy: commute Libby's 30-month prison sentence without reversing his conviction or lifting the $250,000 fine...
...Democrats may hope Bush's act of clemency will be another self-inflicted wound at a time when the White House is already hurting. Only 21% of Americans thought Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, should be spared, according to recent polls, while around 70% thought he should not. For this unpopular President to show mercy to the convicted staffer of his even more unpopular Vice President would seem the Democrats' ideal end for the affair that began when columnist Robert Novak first wrote that Administration officials had outed Plame to him in interviews. (See TIME...