Topic - George W. Bush

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  Obama, Romney use states' rights as they see fit

  The 10th Amendment, the amendment supposedly reserving for the states all powers not explicitly granted to the federal government, gets a lot of rhetorical love on the campaign trail.

• Inside Politics: Illinois GOP picks Davis for ballot to replace Rep. Johnson

  Illinois Republican leaders have chosen a November ballot replacement for longtime Republican Rep. Timothy V. Johnson after he abruptly announced his retirement last month.

• Commercial rocket will fly to the space station

  For the first time, a private company will launch a rocket to the International Space Station, sending it on a grocery run this weekend that could be the shape of things to come for America's space program.

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  Obama seeks to woo military vote from Republicans

  Democrats lost the veterans vote by big margins in the last two presidential elections, but Obama campaign officials said Thursday they intend to reverse that trend by arguing that Mitt Romney would cut veterans' benefits.

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  Private spacecraft to haul groceries

  For the first time, a private company will launch a rocket to the International Space Station, sending it on a grocery run this weekend that could be the shape of things to come for America's space program.

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  BOOK REVIEW: 'The Strongman'

  In June 2000, President George W. Bush and his Soviet counterpart, Vladimir Putin, met for the first time in "neutral" Slovenia. Mr. Bush was mesmerized, telling members of his party, "I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy."

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  Role unlikely for George W. Bush in Romney bid

  Mitt Romney's campaign doesn't foresee the 43rd president playing a substantive role in the presidential race.

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  Inside the Beltway: Mood swings

  Oh woe is us: "The national mood is a drag on President Obama's re-election prospects," according to Gallup poll analyst Lydia Saad, who says that several indicators could prove "troublesome" come November.

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  Ex-presidents factor into Romney's campaign

  Mitt Romney, campaigning in battleground state Iowa on Tuesday, scored a long-awaited — if not exactly surprising — endorsement in Washington from the last Republican occupant of the White House.

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  Credulous Republicans and the urban legend of a 'conservative' Britney Spears

  Despite the widespread assumption of Britney Spears' right-ish leanings, she has never been known to her fans as a politically active, committed — or even aware — entertainer. And it turns out the claims for her conservative proclivities have been unsupported by much in the way of evidence, even of the anecdotal variety. On closer inspection — indeed, even on perfunctory inspection — it appears that the belief that Miss Spears leans right is, at least as of now, little more than an urban legend.

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  Bush policies he reviled are crux of Obama's arsenal

  This month's revival of terrorism trials at Guantanamo Bay underscores President Obama's reliance on counterterrorism tools he inherited from George W. Bush.

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  Inside the Beltway: Scents and sensibility

  The public debate over gender issues may never be the same: It's the first-ever Man Candles Collection in such he-man scents as Riding Mower and 2x4 from the Yankee Candle Co., which normally caters to the rose and gardenia crowd. Perhaps they should offer a line for Washington politicians with names such as Hallowed Halls, Power Lunch and Cloakroom.

• HAGELIN: Voters' religious views are reflected in ballot box

  A recent Gallup poll highlights what many political insiders know intuitively: The cultural divide between religious and nonreligious Americans plays out at the ballot box.

• BOOK REVIEW: 'The Debt Bomb'

  Most politicians prefer platitudes and happy talk. Think "The fundamentals of the economy are strong," "Prosperity is around the corner" and President Obama's ill-fated "recovery summer." Sen. Tom Coburn, a Republican from Oklahoma, is different.

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  Romney's team starts to look like Bush's

  Mitt Romney's corps of advisers is heavily salted with figures who surrounded President George W. Bush as he watched over massive increases in federal spending, the creation of more government programs and the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as the nation-building efforts that followed.

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