(2006-02-28) — With his characteristic optimism, President George Bush said today that his 34 percent approval rating in the latest CBS News poll, an all-time low for his presidency, could be worse.

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(2006-02-27) — Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove today publicly apologized for telling the author of the new book, Strategery, that Sen. Hillary Clinton cannot be elected president because she has “a brittleness about her” that voters don’t like.

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(2006-02-25) — Just a day after releasing his proposal to create a “guest worker” program for non-citizen immigrants, Sen. Arlen Specter, R-PA, today circulated a first draft of legislation which would launch a “guest slacker” program.

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(2006-02-24) — A new White House report on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina blames federal government disaster-response failures on “inadequate redundancy among agencies and desperate shortages of turf-guarding career bureaucrats.”

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(2006-02-23) — Sen. John Kerry, D-MA, announced today that he would back the sale of a British company that manages U.S. seaports to a state-owned firm in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) only if President George Bush will order the National Security Agency (NSA) to secretly wiretap phone calls and emails involving Dubai Ports World.

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(2006-02-23) — New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin today reacted to shocking remarks by several city council members who suggested that able-bodied poor people who want to return to this flood-ravaged city should work for a living.

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(2006-02-22) — President George Bush defended his administration’s support of a deal to let Dubai Ports World, a company based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), manage six major U.S. sea ports, saying the arrangement “will give us someone to blame when terrorists hit one of our ports.”

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