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Lincoln Bedroom, anyone? and Kitchen and Living Room and Office and Hallways...

amberglow — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 18:18:25 -0800

The Pimping of the President --Jack Abramoff and Grover Norquist Billing Clients for Face Time with G.W. Bush: ...He had just concluded his work on the Bush Transition Team as an advisor to the Department of the Interior. He had sent his personal assistant Susan Ralston to the White House to work as Rove’s personal assistant. He was a close friend, advisor, and high-dollar fundraiser for the most powerful man in Congress, Tom DeLay. Abramoff was so closely tied to the Bush Administration that he could, and did, charge two of his clients $25,000 for a White House lunch date and a meeting with the President. ... Jack Abramoff, in the news due to his shady dealings with DeLay, and Grover Norquist, and the White House. Norquist has not responded to inquiries about using the White House as a fundraiser.

who is this richard perle guy anyway?

specialk420 — Mon, 10 Mar 2003 18:55:52 -0800

who is this richard perle guy anyway?

is anyone else a little concerned with some of his views and associations being one of the top advisors to our current administration?

andrew cooke — Thu, 11 Oct 2001 00:47:54 -0800

White House instructs TV networks not to air bin Laden videos

TiggleTaggleTiger — Tue, 10 Jul 2001 10:38:24 -0800

Bush is at it again.
Is the fact that he is able to get away with things like this an indication of a backlash against the more open years of Democrats in the White House?
Is this secretly what the American public wants?

owillis — Wed, 13 Jun 2001 23:50:07 -0800

What's Karl Rove up to? "Karl Rove, President Bush's top White House political adviser, met with senior executives of a high-tech firm (Intel) who were seeking his help in obtaining government approval of a merger at a time when he owned stock in the company worth more than $100,000."

Also, James Hatfield (a shady character himself) - who alleged in a book that Bush was arrested for cocaine and had it removed from his record now alleges that the source was none other than Mr. Rove...

rcade — Tue, 17 Apr 2001 08:17:41 -0800

Affirmative action seems to be taking root in an unlikely place: the Bush White House. "There's been talk inside and outside the administration about having no more than half the 484 political positions in the cabinet and agencies go to white males and at least 30 percent to women," Fred Barnes writes in the conservative Weekly Standard.

daver — Thu, 01 Mar 2001 14:05:23 -0800

Bush budget whacks space station plans, modules
Apparently the White House feels that the current project will exceed budget by quite a bit, so NASA is 'scaling back' plans for Alpha.

skallas — Sun, 11 Feb 2001 12:30:04 -0800

Revealing look at Bush's policy and cabinet. Scary.

fleener — Tue, 23 Jan 2001 07:14:08 -0800

Jakob takes on the presidency in this Wired review of whitehouse.gov.

capt.crackpipe — Fri, 29 Dec 2000 15:16:35 -0800

Big Networks get a slap on the wrist for letting the White House pay for anti-drug scripts.

tamim — Fri, 10 Nov 2000 00:04:47 -0800

The White House turns 200.

rschram — Thu, 17 Aug 2000 08:59:34 -0800

The White House redesigns its web page
Spin up front, navigation off to the side. Reminds me of a weblog. I always thought the original deisgn looked too much like the Vatican web site.

Bane — Wed, 16 Aug 2000 11:42:33 -0800

Whitehouse staff jailed for being porn-dogs. I'm glad I live in Canada.