Bush Vows to Reach Out to Democrats
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President Bush is striking twin themes for a second term, vowing to fight hard for his political agenda while reaching across the aisle to Democrats.
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WASHINGTON -- President Bush called yesterday on Democrats and Republicans to work together on a new strategy for the war in Iraq after a high-level group said the administration's current approach was not working.
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President Bush vowed yesterday to make a sustained new military and political effort to beat back resurgent Taliban forces as he turned his attention back to Afghanistan and a conflict that has been overshadowed for the past couple of years by the larger war in Iraq.
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Democratic leaders vowed Friday to keep up the pressure on President George W. Bush to end the Iraq war with more votes next month on withdrawing U.S. troops.
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President Bush summoned support from Democrats whose &quot;dreams and goals are not found in the far left wing&quot; of their own party on Wednesday in a late-campaign appeal for crossover votes.
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In an attempt to sustain key elements of a domestic agenda pronounced dead on arrival by congressional critics, President Bush will challenge the newly empowered House Democrats to give his health-care and energy proposals serious consideration when he addresses them today during a retreat in Virginia....
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On the eve of his inauguration,  President Bush on Wednesday called for unity and pledged to  represent all Americans during his second term which he begins  with an aggressive domestic agenda amid deep partisan divide  over his Iraq policy.
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US President George W. Bush set the stage Sunday for one of the Republican convention's central messages, telling cheering supporters here they must court opposition Democrats on his behalf.
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Leading Democrats have urged John Kerry's aides to concentrate on challenging President Bush on domestic issues.
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The top two Democrats in the  Congress vowed on Wednesday to work with President Bush, but  also slammed him on key issues like Iraq and his bid to revamp  the Social Security retirement program.
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President George W. Bush on Friday promised to mobilise international efforts to create an independent, democratic and viable Palestinian state at peace with Israel in the wake of the death of Yasser Arafat.
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Congressional Democrats, trying to have the first word on President Bush's State of the Union speech, challenged him Friday to renounce use of waterboarding in interrogations, close Guantanamo Bay to detainees and outline new policies toward Pakistan and Iran.
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Opposition Democrats in the US say they will refuse to be sidelined as President Bush begins his second term.
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President Bush on Monday promised to  assist newly elected Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas boost  security and the Palestinian economy, and invited him to the  White House after years of shunning Yasser Arafat as an  obstacle to peace.
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LAS CRUCES, N.M. - President Bush wants to work with Republican Sen...
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Leading U.S. Democrats vowed on Sunday to seek a revision in President George W. Bush's 2002 authorization to wage war in Iraq, as a way to raise pressure for a change in strategy.
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WILLIAMSBURG, Virginia  - Democrats angry at President Bush for his Iraq policy will get a chance to air their grievances on Saturday at a rare meeting that Bush hopes to use to find common ground on contentious issues.