Forsaking Politics, Bush Has Low-Key Labor Day
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The president dwelled on the need to find alternative sources of energy during a speech in Maryland.
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President Bush says he won't weigh in on the 2008 presidential campaign, at least not until after the primaries. He showed Monday, though, that he has no intention of staying out of lower-ticket contests.
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President George W. Bush made the most of lukewarm job creation data, hoping to ward off nagging worries about the US economy as he opened a two-day, six-stop courtship of key battleground states.
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The pace of job creation picked up modestly in August and the unemployment rate edged down, the Labor Department said on Friday in a report that offered some political
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You don't need a conspiracy theory or an imminent Republican convention to explain why there is so much Bush-bashing entertainment today: George W. Bush is in power.
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President Bush declared yesterday that he remains "relevant" despite his political troubles, and he derided Democrats for running a do-nothing Congress that has failed to address critical domestic, economic and security issues in the nine months since they took control of Capitol Hill.
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Labor Day is one of those terms, like driveway and parkway, that means the opposite of what it seems to mean. Honoring the nation&#39;s workers, Labor Day is not for working but for picnics.
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High gasoline prices, a slowing economy and upcoming congressional elections were the backdrop Friday of President Bush's annual meeting with his top economic team, held this year in a cooler clime.
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President Bush tried to sustain the momentum from last week's Republican National Convention with a weekend of campaigning focused on his defense of the war with Iraq and his pledge to reform the tax code.
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WASHINGTON: The administration of President George W Bush, after being ridiculed by Democrats for an overly optimistic jobs forecast this year, significantly reduced its forecast for new jobs that will be created in 2005.
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Of criticisms of George W. Bush on domestic policy, it might be the most startling: He&#39;s likely to be the first president since Herbert Hoover to end his term with fewer jobs than when he began.
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Labor Day is a time to fire up the barbecue pit and hang out at the beach for the last official rite of summer. It&#39;s also the day, every four years, when the presidential candidates ramp up their campaigns for the homestretch to Election Day.
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As President Bush was preparing to accept the Republican presidential nomination on Thursday, the country's labor movement was preparing to try to dump him.
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President Bush opened a broad campaign for his economic agenda on Wednesday, calling for a reduction in &quot;frivolous lawsuits&quot; while his economic team laid out the
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Bush plans to emphasize building alliances, but without softening the policies that rankled many in his first term.
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President Bush is giving an obscure White House office new powers this month over a wide range of regulations affecting health, worker safety and the environment. Calling it a power grab, Democrats running Congress are intent on stopping him.
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Conditions are less than ideal, let us say, for President George W. Bush's last state of the union speech, to be delivered today. This is an administration that had precious little to boast about even before the economy began to nose-dive - a calamity that may not yet be plain in the figures but was certified by the Federal Reserve's dramatic interest rate cut last week. One wonders, how much worse can things get for this White House?