Andrew comments on Perry’s position on Social Security: Even in a steep recession, an Obama-Perry fight is much likelier to end in an Obama victory. No one wants to return to Bushism. Very few want to ...

George Packer gets close to the truth, but then veers rather badly off course: He gambled, all right, but it was in the direction of orthodoxy—for Palin is a creature and an icon of the Republicans’ ...

Even in the last limping years of his deeply unpopular administration, George W. Bush was still popular with Republican voters. After Barack Obama took office, Bush’s image popped up in anti-Obama ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Article created by the Center for American Progress. Of course, Bushism could be ...

Two and a half years ago, I had an idea for a book. I mentioned it to my agent, Gail Ross, and she thought the notion had potential. She then spoke with edi… By signing up, you confirm that you are ...

In Papua New Guinea,” a woman said to my wife when we were in that country recently, “we used to look up to the United States, see it as our father, our model. Now we are afraid of the United States.

The continuous flubs by the glamorous Sarah Palin in her speeches may not have the flavour of Bushisms, but Palinisms are slowly taking on the unique linguistic constructions of the former US ...

President Bush has refused to "negotiate with myself in public." The president coined the Bushism when faced with a question about the future of Social Security at a televised news conference. "Now, ...

"How can you possibly have an international agreement that's effective unless countries like China and India are not full participants?"—Camp David, April 19, 2008 Click here to see video of Bush's ...

“And so, what Gen. Petraeus is saying, some early signs, still dangerous, but give me—give my chance a plan to work.”—in an interview with Charlie Rose, April 24, 2007 (Thanks to Dana Stevens.) Click ...