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nicknames were so effective? It seemed, once you were labelled by him, you were done. PK: Bush had his nicknames, but they were favorable. He called Karl Rove his — EP: “Turd Blossom”! PK: Right, “Turd Blossom” ...and he was. EP: The prettiest turd. PK: Regarding Trump’s narcissism, here’s my favorite joke:
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023639 →icted — that America would have a dictator who won the presidency because he came out of show business. And it happened. You know, [Trump’s] not like Ronald Reagan, who came out of Hollywood, of course. But in Reagan’s case, he couldn’t make the distinction between reality and his movie roles. But he did say he
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023639 →dency because he came out of show business. And it happened. You know, [Trump’s] not like Ronald Reagan, who came out of Hollywood, of course. But in Reagan’s case, he couldn’t make the distinction between reality and his movie roles. But he did say he was willing to take a senility test! Of course, the
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023639 →m pregnancy "is something that God intended to happen" fame. The Tea Party primary challenge has become such a threat to mainstream Republicans that Karl Rove started the Conservative Victory Project to help GOP incumbents ward off less electable primary opponents. When you consider how few people actuall
ntervention and believe that letting markets direct economic resources to grow the economy they should remember that in his first Inaugural Address, Reagan famously said that "government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem." The less famous yet crucial beginning of that senten
hey have a much higher possibility of being poor." Saul Anuzis, former Michigan Republican Party chairman: "The opportunity society -- the argument Ronald Reagan, Jack Kemp and Newt Gingrich used to make. There's a desire for it. People are just scared right now, so they want EFTA00692531 a bigger social sa
many political groups that would otherwise have little or no financial support. Crossroads GPS (Grassroots Policy Strategies), the sub-Super PAC of Karl Rove's American Crossroads, lists no grassroots groups that it backs, but funded more than $9.7M of anti-Obama television ads by Larry McCarthy, known for
Widely pilloried for talking about nuclear war with his young daughter Amy, Carter was further attacked for being "weak" on defense. His defeat by Ronald Reagan in 1980 inaugurated 12 years of dominance by Republican presidents that opened the financial floodgates for the Department of Defense. That taught
or being "weak" on defense. His defeat by Ronald Reagan in 1980 inaugurated 12 years of dominance by Rep
uppression has been going on for some time, but with the advent of the Tea Party, it has become more frenzied. in the George W. Bush administration, Karl Rove pursued voter fraud with zeal, a pattern emerged: U.S. attorneys who didn't follow his suggestion to bring more such cases got fired. Since then, d
foreign policy disaster on Carter's watch — the failed mission to rescue U.S. diplomats in Iran, resulting in the deaths of eight servicemen.— when Reagan was still battling George H.W. Bush for the GOP nomination and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy was challenging Carter for the Democratic nomination. This is
ard M. Kennedy was challenging Carter for the Democratic nomination. This is excerpted from The Washington Post reporting on the political fallout: Ronald Reagan and Edward Kennedy offered sympathy to the families of the dead troopers and called for "national unity" Bush was most outspoken, saying, "I unequiv
ashington. The rub for the Israeli leader is that even some Republicans are now thinking an Israeli strike before the U.S. election is a bad idea. Karl Rove, the GOP's aminence grise, said on Fox News in August that a war now would cause Americans to rally around the president and likely clinch the ele
ader needs broad public backing and an understanding with Washington (he learned the lesson from his disastrous invasion of Lebanon in 1982, which Ronald Reagan criticized and many Israelis opposed). Netanyahu has watched the polls move steadily against him for the past year. One of them, conducted by the
strous invasion of Lebanon in 1982, which Ronald Reagan criticized and many Israelis opposed). Netanyahu
, the political operatives who opposed him did what they are paid to do—they drew a cartoon of him. "Even if you never met him, you know this guy," Karl Rove said, in 2008. "He's the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a Martini and a cigarette, that stands against the wall and makes
once he was in office. The debate over the proper scale and scope of the federal government dates to the Founders, but it has intensified since the Reagan revolution. Both Bill Clinton and Obama have spent as much time defending progressive advances—from Social Security and Medicare to voting rights
who crave a rallying cry. It's what compelled him to declare himself a non-pacifist as he was accepting the Nobel Peace Prize, in Oslo, and praise Ronald Reagan in a Democratic primary debate. EFTA00684472 And that was the end of the performance. A few minutes later, the motorcade was snaking through the
Washington. The rub for the Israeli leader is that even some Republicans are now thinking an Israeli strike before the U.S. election is a bad idea. Karl Rove, the GOP's aminence grise, said on Fox News in August that a war now would cause Americans to rally around the president and likely clinch the elec
eader needs broad public backing and an understanding with Washington (he learned the lesson from his disastrous invasion of Lebanon in 1982, which Ronald Reagan criticized and many Israelis opposed). Netanyahu has watched the polls move steadily against him for the past year. One of them, conducted by the I
strous invasion of Lebanon in 1982, which Ronald Reagan criticized and many Israelis opposed). Netanyahu
f these areas. Among the many, many efforts to force Trump into presidential mode, this was the latest. Bannon then installed Mark Corallo, a former Karl Rove communications staffer, as the firewall spokesperson. He was also planning to put in Bossie and Lewandowski as part of the crisis management team. An
subsume the conference this year, and everybody wanted to turn out for this sweet moment. The president, set to speak on the second day, would, like Ronald Reagan, address the conference in his first year in office, whereas both Bushes, wary of CPAC and conservative activists, had largely snubbed the gathering.
rged John Birchers and the racist right and embraced the philosophic conservative tenets of Russell Kirk and William F. Buckley. In time, it endorsed Reagan-era small government and antiregulatory reform, and then added the components of the cultural wars—antiabortion, anti-gay-marriage, and a tilt toward
rge of politically active groups claiming tax-exempt status in recent elections — conservative and liberal. Among the highest profile are Republican Karl Rove's group Crossroads GPS and the liberal Moveon.org. These groups claim tax-exempt status under section 501 (c) (4) of the federal tax code, which is f
act of terror.... Oh yes, the four-minute rule, how could I have missed it..." MAYER: "Excuse me! Nixon ran a burglary ring out of the Oval Office. Reagan traded arms with terrorist. Bush gin up a war where thousands died by sending Collin Powell to lie to the UN with props.... In a poll last week, fo
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