PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY Archive

Got It Covered  
Fantasies of George W.Bush finally answering the numerous suits, inquiries and subpoenas pending against his administration after he leaves office received a cold shower Thursday from the New York Times, which reports a crackpot Harry Truman legal theory may have empowered presidents to tell Congress, the courts and polite society generally to […]

 For The Good Times 
One delight of our soon to be departed President was that even a totally in the tank Tory Party rag like The Daily Telegraph felt free to smirk at Bush’s behavior.
The paper has gathered an early departure love letter to the Bush Era, in the form of some of the finest […]

Eveready! 

Jesse Taylor of Pandagon joyously mocks the endlessly expressed notion that putting a little touch of Reagan in everything we do is key.
Taylor takes off on Scott Rasmussen’s Wall Street Journal advice to seek Him everywhere, and hilarity ensues:

“Barack Obama’s election reaffirms the central tenet of American political life, which is that Ronald Reagan […]

Who Was Barack Obama? 
The hope’s barely dry for the Obama Administration, but an exhibit on the Senator’s rise to greatness looms.
Denver’s Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library and Museum has some odds and ends left over from the Democrat’s convention week in town, and they’re putting on a show!
This handsome number  is the centerpiece […]

Nowhere to Go But    
As he shows Barack Obama around to measure the White House drapes,    George W. Bush can take quiet pride knowing that he has secured another presidential first, surpassing Richard Nixon in the American people’s dislike.
Seventy-six percent disapprove of Bush’s performance, compared with sixty-Six percent for Nixon as he boarded […]