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	USATODAY.com - Hurricanes' aftermath whips up new deal for president (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		WASHINGTON — Back-to-back hurricanes have reshaped the geography of the Gulf Coast and the contours of George W. Bush's presidency.
		Bush was elected in 2000 as a "compassionate conservative" who promised a "humble" foreign policy.
		The criticism is not only that Bush's plans are expensive but also that they are expansive, carving out a major federal role in areas that Republicans traditionally have argued should be left to state and local governments and market forces.
	www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2005-09-27-bush-roosevelt-cover_x.htm (1733 words)

	HeraldNet: A weakened Bush aims for a new start (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Bush begins this election year far weaker than he was a year ago.
		Down in the polls, Bush sought to frame the coming year as a time of potentially decisive choices on national and economic security, and he provided a vigorous defense of his policies at home and abroad.
		Bush was forced to scrap his agenda and curtail his ambitions.
	www.heraldnet.com /stories/06/02/01/100wir_a3bush002.cfm (676 words)

	Salon.com Politics \| George the Good
		In his own inimitable way, Bush tried to depict himself as an unflinching leader, a my-way-or-the-highway conservative who isn't shy about scrapping key international treaties in the face of global opposition, or, closer to home, proposing an energy plan that unabashedly scratches the backs of his friends in the energy business, cranky environmentalists be damned.
		Bush was also boosted Thursday by a new ABC News-Washington Post poll showing the president's approval rating at 59 percent, welcome news after the Zogby poll released Tuesday showed the president's approval sagging.
		Bush is hoping that the taste of the tax-cut candy will linger politically, as Americans receive their rebate checks, signed, sealed and delivered by President Bush, this summer and fall.
	archive.salon.com /politics/feature/2001/08/02/bush/print.html (1774 words)

	Counterbias: Bush's Budget is at Odds With His Rhetoric
		The administration said they could not predict how much money would be needed, so rather than approximating the cost in the budget, they will ask Congress for additional funding next year.
		The Bush campaign told veterans that they shared their values and were dedicated to supporting the military’s needs.
		Bush won re-election partly because he convinced people that he could do a better job of protecting the country from another terrorist attack.
	www.counterbias.com /228.html (976 words)

	Counterbias: Bush Chose Iraq Over America's Homeless
		It appears that as the Bush administration focused increasingly on the war in Iraq, America’s homeless suffered.
		HUD’s payments cover the difference between a housing unit’s monthly rental cost – or the operating cost for public housing – and a tenant’s payment, which is generally the equivalent of 30% of a tenant’s adjusted monthly income.
		During President Bush’s first term, just as the reconstruction of Iraq was outsourced to Halliburton and other corporations, the administration began to outsource HUD’s supervision of Section 8 housing to independent contractors.
	www.counterbias.com /534.html (729 words)

	Bush Profiteering from Housing Defaults by James Bovard
		Bush could be exposing taxpayers to tens of billions of dollars of losses, luring thousands of low- and moderate-income people to the heartbreak of losing their first house, and risking wrecking entire neighborhoods.
		Bush did not specify the precise percentage of fls and Hispanics that would be “right.” The new law authorized federal handouts of $5,000 each for 40,000 home buyers whose incomes are less than 80 percent of a local area’s median.
		Bush’s freebie hype could make the millions of low- and moderate-income Americans who are saving and scrimping for a down payment feel like fools.
	www.lewrockwell.com /bovard/bovard8.html (1879 words)

	Bush payola scandal deepens as third columnist admits being paid \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		The Bush administration was confronted with fresh evidence of a far-reaching clandestine campaign to influence public opinion yesterday after a third conservative commentator admitted receiving payments for championing its policies.
		Michael McManus, a newspaper columnist, was paid up to $10,000 (£5,300) to praise the administration's marriage initiative, which diverts funds from welfare to marital counselling, the Los Angeles Times reported.
		George Bush tried to distance the administration from such payment practices earlier this week, and an official from the health department said the payments would cease.
	www.guardian.co.uk /usa/story/0,12271,1401211,00.html (555 words)

	Bush administration payment of columnists - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Bush administration payment of columnists refers to the payment of public funds to right-wing media commentators by several U.S. executive departments under Cabinet officials to promote various policies of U.S. President George W. Bush's administration.
		A second syndicated columnist, Maggie Gallagher, was revealed to have also accepted public funds from the Bush administration.
		The payments were said to be $4,000 plus travel expenses, with an additional $49,000 paid to his organization, Marriage Savers Inc..
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bush_administration_payment_of_columnists (323 words)

	HeraldNet: Bush finally gets to swing at a hardball (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		CHARLOTTE, N.C. - President Bush, told by a critic he should be ashamed of his policies, defended the government's secret eavesdropping program Thursday and said he would not apologize for listening in on the phone and e-mail conversations of Americans talking to people with suspected al-Qaida links.
		He said Bush has asserted his right to tap phone calls without a warrant, to arrest people and hold them without charges, and to revoke a woman's right to an abortion, among other things.
		Bush was also asked what he would have done differently in the Iraq war.
	www.heraldnet.com /stories/06/04/07/100wir_a3bush001.cfm (572 words)

	USATODAY.com - Bush, addressing economic forum, says administration has economy under control (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Bush said they were there to ''to talk about ways to get the economy moving again.'' He dropped by four sessions for 15 minutes at a time.
		Democrats dismissed Bush's forum as a public relations ploy and a nod to corporate donors to GOP coffers.
		Administration officials hastened to rebut complaints that vocal critics of the administration's economic policies were excluded from the forum, as were members of Congress.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2002-08-13-bush-economic-forum_x.htm (1190 words)

	OpinionJournal - Outside the Box
		The Bush administration announced last week that the budget deficit would be $455 billion this year, and even more in the next fiscal year.
		But in the first three budgets of the Bush administration, nondefense discretionary spending will have increased an average of 5.8% per year, exceeding in just three years the total increase of such spending in all eight Clinton budgets.
		So the largest domestic challenge facing the Bush administration in the next 5 1/2 years is limiting and controlling federal spending.
	www.opinionjournal.com /columnists/pdupont/?id=110003774 (970 words)

	Times Leader \| 10/15/2006 \| Be wary of Swann for irresponsible tax cut plan Tom bigler Opinion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Bush has attacked Social Security and argues for the need to change it, indeed, eliminate it and replace it with a private savings and investment program.
		But the Bush administration, like every other president and Congress since 1968, has been raiding the lock box in which surplus Social Security funds were supposed to be accumulating.
		Bush assumed office, he and the majority of the Congress teamed up to make huge cuts in taxes, mostly for the wealthy, and because our costs continued to rise domestically and abroad, our national debt rose by $1.5 trillion.
	www.centredaily.com /mld/centredaily/news/opinion/15764663.htm (826 words)

	Bush: end Social Security death benefit - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
		Administration officials said the payment began as a burial benefit in 1939 to assist families with funeral expenses.
		Bush's budget includes a proposal to change the calculation made for Social Security disability payments for people who also receive worker compensation benefits.
		Together, the proposals relating to disability payments and state and local retirees would save an estimated $2.8 billion over the next decade, according to administration estimates.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/trib/pmupdate/s_421831.html (616 words)

	MichaelMoore.com : Third columnist caught with hand in the Bush till
		One day after President Bush ordered his Cabinet secretaries to stop hiring commentators to help promote administration initiatives, and one day after the second high-profile conservative pundit was found to be on the federal payroll, a third embarrassing hire has emerged.
		Horn's move came on the heels of Wednesday's report in the Washington Post that HHS had paid syndicated columnist and marriage advocate Maggie Gallagher $21,000 to write brochures and essays and to brief government employees on the president's marriage initiative.
		To date, the Bush administration has paid public relation firms $250 million to help push proposals, according to a report Thursday in USA Today.
	www.michaelmoore.com /words/index.php?id=1179 (852 words)

	AlterNet: War on Iraq: Bush's War Against the Military
		Bush has failed the military on almost every level – marking the difference between being militaristic and pro-military.
		In 2003, his administration also tried to cut combat pay from $225 to $150 a month and the family separation allowance from $250 to $100.
		You would think that the Bush administration would be solicitous of the foot soldiers who carry out its imperial ambitions.
	www.alternet.org /waroniraq/20308 (1068 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > In Iraq -- President promotes Iraq strategy in Veterans Day tribute
		Meanwhile, the top U.S. administrator in Iraq, L. Paul Bremer, was in Washington Tuesday for previously unscheduled consultations with Bush administration officials.
		As Bush arrived at the cemetery, a 21-gun salute shook the cemetery and left smoke hanging over rows of tombstones.
		Also Tuesday, Bush was signing the Fallen Patriots Tax Relief Act, which doubles the tax-free death gratuity payment given to the families of fallen soldiers from $6,000 to $12,000; and the National Cemetery Expansion Act to help establish new national cemeteries for deceased veterans.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/iraq/20031111-1225-bush.html (767 words)

	Bush edges toward second term
		Bush won Florida, the state that went his way four years ago after a 36-day recount and Supreme Court decision.
		Bush lost Pennsylvania, a major blow after courting voters with steel tariffs and 44 visits - the most of any state - in a bid to steal it from the Democrats.
		With nearly 1 million jobs lost in Bush's term, Kerry was favored by eight of 10 voters who listed the economy as a top issue.
	www.record-eagle.com /2004/nov/3bush.htm (1356 words)

	Bush
		Bush was at the United Nations for one reason: He got his country into terrible trouble, in defiance of virtually the entire international community, and was forced to come begging for help.
		Bush raised a staggering $140 million for the midterm elections, and by barnstorming key races in the weeks before the election, he made a difference.
		The Bush "mandate." Bush&Co. spokesmen and supporters claimed after the results of the midterm elections were announced that they would continue to use their "mandate" given them by the voters in 2000 to push their programs through Congress.
	www.omnicenter.org /warpeacecollection/bush.htm (15589 words)

	Bush Reviews Options on Iraq Policy - Greenwich Time
		The White House remained tightlipped on how Bush is likely to change strategy, saying the president is awaiting reports from his national security team before announcing a plan to the nation.
		At the State Department, Bush met with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her senior advisers on Iraq, and with diplomats who serve as leaders of U.S. joint civilian-military units called provincial reconstruction teams.
		Bush's public remarks echoed his previous statements and gave no indication of any change of strategy.
	www.greenwichtime.com /technology/sns-ap-bush-iraq,0,1172912.story (687 words)

	Right-wing pundits: We're not on the Bush payroll - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Revelations that another columnist received money from the Bush administration to promote an initiative has conservative writers and broadcasters on the defensive.
		In light of the second revelation this month that the Bush administration had hired a Republican-friendly pundit to help promote policy initiatives -- payments that were kept hidden from readers and viewers -- conservative commentators are calling on the White House to come clean and detail any other controversial agreements.
		Gallagher argues that her duties for HHS were more along the line of an academic doing independent research than a pundit getting paid to hype an initiative, as Williams appeared to have done.
	dir.salon.com /story/news/feature/2005/01/27/pundits/index_np.html (930 words)

	MichaelMoore.com : Bush administration blurs media boundary
		But taken together, these recent controversies suggest that the Bush administration may be pushing that craft into new territory - and testing the limits of presidential public relations.
		Since President Bush took office, contracts for public relations work with the federal government have jumped from $39 million to $88.2 million last year, according to a report by Democratic staff of the House Government Reform Committee.
		The Bush administration isn't the first to pay journalists to promote their causes.
	www.michaelmoore.com /words/index.php?id=1454 (1055 words)

	Third columnist caught with hand in the Bush till - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Gallagher later wrote in her column that she would have revealed the $21,000 payment to readers had she recalled receiving it.
		Horn says McManus, who could not be reached for comment, was paid approximately $10,000 for his work as a subcontractor to the Lewin Group, a health care consultancy hired by HHS to implement the Community Healthy Marriage Initiative, which encourages communities to combat divorce through education and counseling.
		Horn insists that HHS was not paying Gallagher and McManus to write about Bush administration initiatives but for their expertise as marriage advocates.
	dir.salon.com /story/news/feature/2005/01/27/mcmanus/index_np.html (844 words)

	Federal Contracts With Columnists Prompt Change in Policy - CREW
		WASHINGTON â” A part-time columnist who heads an organization that promotes marriage was awarded a contract worth up to $10,000 from the Bush administration last year â” the third recent case in which a syndicated columnist has received such payments.
		The columnist, Michael J. McManus, said he was paid through a subcontract from a consulting firm that does work for the Department of Health and Human Services.
		In a statement, Gallagher denied that her work was part of promoting an administration initiative but said it was a mistake not to disclose the payment.
	www.citizensforethics.org /press/pressclip.php?view=108 (908 words)

	OpinionEditorials.com — How Can We Afford Bush's Recovery? - Day
		After listening to parts of President Bush’s speech promising to rebuild the devastated areas of the Gulf States, I had a dream.
		Though President Bush promised to rebuild the area, his speech was incomplete.
		The Bush Administration began slashing funds meant to maintain the levees in 2004.
	www.opinioneditorials.com /freedomwriters/cday_20050919.html (867 words)

	OpinionJournal - Outside the Box
		Perhaps both, for I wrote a piece in this space last September praising the Bush administration for its effort to return U.S. agricultural policy to, in the president's words, a "market-driven approach." Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman had issued an excellent report that questioned the fundamental concept of farm subsidies.
		The market mirage has evaporated, and with the enthusiastic support of the Bush administration, House and Senate conferees have agreed on a nearly 80% increase ($83 billion) in farm subsidies over the next decade.
		The new bill pretends to deal with this by limiting subsidy payments to $360,000 a farm (down from $460,000), but it is apparently rife with loopholes.
	www.opinionjournal.com /columnists/pdupont/?id=110001675 (1017 words)

	Covert Propaganda \| Z (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		That is to say, the Bush regime represents that class of socioeconomic elites which can privately insure their property against hurricanes, and their health and welfare against whatever contingencies the planet can throw at them.
		Therefore, the Bush regime's Department of Homeland Security responded to a natural disaster and to the initial humanitarian crisis that was caused by it the only way in which an elite-serving regime was capable---as a crime scene, an opportunity to defend the Haves against the Have-Nots.
		Rather, the Bush regime fears that the institutions of state not only will undertake non-elite-serving tasks (i.e., those related to human welfare and the social good), but will succeed at performing these tasks---will create a new sense of entitlement on behalf of the masses, and will de-legitimize the sense of entitlement now monopolized by elites.
	blog.zmag.org /index.php/weblog/entry/bush_administration (14810 words)

	The Seattle Times: Politics: White House details plans for cuts in 2006 spending
		WASHINGTON — President Bush challenged Congress yesterday to eliminate or reduce spending for 154 federal programs, offering a long list of what the administration sees as duplications, failures and inefficiencies.
		With a document detailing the administration's rationale for each proposed cut, the White House fleshed out Bush's State of the Union promise to curb government spending and reduce budget deficits.
		The administration said it paid special attention to overlapping programs that serve the same purpose.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/politics/2002178492_bushcuts12.html (492 words)

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