With a blown kiss out the window of the presidential limousine, George W. Bush departed the White House yesterday, closing out a presidency that spanned the height of popularity and the depths of public disdain....

With a blown kiss out the window of the presidential limousine, George W. Bush departed the White House yesterday, closing out a presidency that spanned the height of popularity and the depths of public disdain....

7:06 Eastern Time: Everything is fresh and new — except the wars, the economic disaster, and so forth — and let's hope — buzzword: hope — it's going to be good. 7:09: I'm doing the time stamps in Washington time, which is not my usual style, as a tribute to our beautiful young President. I'm...

Vice President Cheney pulled a muscle in his back while moving boxes and will be in a wheelchair for today's inauguration ceremony, the White House said last night....

The White House has issued not one but two press releases accusing the New York Times of "gross negligence" in blaming George W. Bush's policies for the housing bubble. The Times, in a thoroughly silly series called "The Reckoning," spent a lot of time interviewing lots and lots and lots of respecta...

Thursday Evening News Roundup You know, after my being up all night, a short nap does not hit the spot like it used to. It takes some time for cobwebs to clear. So if most of what I wrote below doesn’t make any sense, feel free to write it off to a lack of sleep. The stock market fell for the ...

This blog has frequently looked at the succession of White House spokespersons over its three+ year run. A persistent theme centered on how the public faces of this administration -- Fleischer, McClellan, Snow and Perino -- have sold their souls to blindly advance the political POVs of their bosses....

It's about time somebody in this town stood up for the big guy....

After the firestorm that erupted Saturday over the Associated Press's classless story on the death of former White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, I was hoping that the possibly-chastened wire service could get through its coverage of his funeral without getting in any gratuitous digs. In that horr...

President Bush's decision to shift policy and send a senior U.S. envoy to nuclear talks with Iran this weekend was made after increasing signs that Iran was open to possible negotiations and that international sanctions were having an impact on the Islamic republic, U.S. officials said yesterday....