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The Week That Derailed Joe Biden’s Post-Presidency

May 24, 2025 at 7:01 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“When Joe Biden left office in January, he sought to follow the template set by his predecessors for a post-presidency: Raise funds for a library, deliver a memoir and hit the speaking circuit,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Instead, he has been derailed by a battle to salvage his tarnished legacy—and an urgent fight against stage-4 prostate cancer that kills most men within five years. A stream of new books detailing the extent of his decline while in office and the efforts to conceal it has spawned a fresh round of recriminations over the 82-year-old’s presidency.”

Filed Under: Bush Legacy

Biden Taps Operative to Help Defend His Reputation

May 8, 2025 at 6:16 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Joe Biden is in reputation management mode, hiring a veteran campaign and communications strategist to help burnish his legacy at a time when many in his party want him to exit the stage,” Politico reports.

“In a sign of Biden’s intent to remain engaged publicly, his inner circle tapped Chris Meagher, a former Biden deputy press secretary and Defense Department spokesperson, to help him transition past the first 100 days of the Trump administration.”

Filed Under: Bush Legacy

George W. Bush Not Expected at White House Event

May 6, 2025 at 8:59 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Former president George W. Bush is not expected to attend a Thursday event at the White House honoring his late mother,” the Washington Post reports.

“First lady Melania Trump is hosting the event in the East Room, where she will unveil a postage stamp honoring former first lady Barbara Bush, the wife of President George H.W. Bush. Other Bush family members and friends are expected to attend.”

Filed Under: Bush Legacy


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Biden Aides Decided Against Cognitive Test

May 4, 2025 at 10:56 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Months before President Joe Biden was forced to abandon his re-election campaign, his top White House aides debated having him undergo a cognitive test to prove his fitness for a second term but ultimately decided against the move, according to a forthcoming book,” the New York Times reports.

“The account illustrates the degree to which Mr. Biden’s top aides harbored deep fears about how voters viewed his age and mental acuity.”

“Mr. Biden’s aides were confident that he would pass a cognitive test, but they worried that the mere fact of his taking one would raise new questions about his mental abilities.”

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Filed Under: 2024 Campaign, Bush Legacy

Why Voters Rejected Bidenomics

February 11, 2025 at 3:00 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“In a scathing new essay on what went wrong with Biden-era economic policy, longtime Democratic economic adviser Jason Furman argues that the last administration was too quick to toss aside traditional economic orthodoxy around fiscal policy and other issues,” Axios reports.

“Furman, writing in Foreign Affairs, argues that the Biden administration’s willingness to run the economy hot — to risk higher inflation in exchange for a turbo-charged rebound from the pandemic — turned out to be a bad bet.”

Filed Under: Bush Legacy

Quote of the Day

January 21, 2025 at 9:36 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“That makes him look very guilty.”

— President Trump, quoted by The Hill, on former President Biden pardoning his family in the final 20 minutes of his term.

Filed Under: Bush Legacy

Biden Says Not Taking More Credit Is His Key Regret

January 17, 2025 at 8:25 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President Joe Biden said a key regret of his four years in office was not taking more credit — and reminding voters — of his administration’s accomplishments, including infrastructure and Covid relief spending,” CNN reports.

Said Biden: “The mistake we made was — I think I made — was not getting our allies to acknowledge that the Democrats did this. So, for example, building a new billion-dollar bridge over the river, we’ll call it the ‘Democratic Bridge,’ figuratively speaking.”

He added: “Talk about who put it together. Let people know that this was something the Democrats did, that it was done by the party. That’s different than me writing a check and me signing a check and saying I did it.”

Filed Under: Bush Legacy

Voters Have Dimmer View of Biden

January 10, 2025 at 8:10 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A new AP-NORC poll finds that “as Joe Biden prepares to leave office, Americans have a dimmer view of his presidency than they did at the end of Donald Trump’s first term or Barack Obama’s second.”

“Around one-quarter of U.S. adults said Biden was a ‘good’ or ‘great’ president, with less than 1 in 10 saying he was ‘great.'”

“It’s a stark illustration of how tarnished Biden’s legacy has become, with many members of his own party seeing his Democratic presidency as merely mediocre.”

Filed Under: Bush Legacy

Biden Agenda Sparked $1 Trillion in New Investment

November 25, 2024 at 7:38 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Expect the White House to tout a new milestone on Monday: $1 trillion of private sector money put toward clean technology and manufacturing — investments officials say are a result of Biden-era legislation,” Axios reports.

Filed Under: Bush Legacy

The Sexual-Abuse Cabinet

November 22, 2024 at 12:18 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Jill Filipovic: “If everyone is a sexual predator, then no one’s history of misdeeds matters (or, at least, no one needs to be held accountable).”

“MAGA Republicans seem to be having their own #MeToo moment, except here, a growing cohort of men is essentially saying: Oh, another man accused of sexual predation? #MeToo—and so what? Being accused of sexual harassment, abuse, or assault is no longer disqualifying; on the right, it has been normalized. It may even be an asset.”

Filed Under: 2004 Campaign, 2010 Campaign, Bush Legacy, Environment, Foreign Elections, Governing, Gun Control, Political Consultants, Political Jobs, Redistricting, White House Tagged With: MeToo

George W. Bush Was a Terrible President

April 24, 2024 at 2:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Matthew Yglesias: “The wheels fell off Bushism relatively rapidly after its triumphant reelection, but the period between Bush’s inauguration and the 2006 midterms is a striking and important one.”

“It’s the only time since Reagan that the conservative movement was truly governing the country. It also falls into a weird kind of gap where the Bush presidency is too recent to be history but too distant to be vividly remembered by many. And I think it’s worth taking a look back and trying to genuinely assess his administration’s major initiatives.”

Filed Under: Bush Legacy

15 Years Since Bush Dodged Those Shoes

December 14, 2023 at 2:12 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Jordan Heller has an oral history of when shoes were thrown at President George W. Bush during a press conference in Iraq.

Filed Under: Bush Legacy

Ex-CIA Agents Say Bush Misrepresented Intelligence

March 21, 2023 at 8:00 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Two former CIA officials told Insider that the George W. Bush administration misrepresented intelligence to assert a connection between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda.

In fact, the evidence assembled by the CIA suggested that no such connection existed.

Filed Under: Bush Legacy

A Bush State of the Union Promise That Paid Off

February 8, 2023 at 1:56 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

NBC News: “This is also the story, unknown to many Americans, of how Bush — a devoutly religious man who campaigned for president on a platform of ‘compassionate conservatism,’ but whose legacy was stained by the carnage of the Iraq War and the Afghanistan quagmire — conceived of and launched a juggernaut aid program that is widely credited with saving sub-Saharan Africa from cataclysm.”

Filed Under: Bush Legacy

Cheney Never Apologized

February 7, 2023 at 7:38 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Former Vice President Dick Cheney never apologized to Harry Whittington — who died yesterday — for shooting him in the face while hunting, the Washington Post reports.

Filed Under: Bush Legacy

The Rise and Fall of the Bush Dynasty

January 17, 2023 at 4:00 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Texas Monthly: “A status akin to royalty had coalesced in Texas, and the family set up shop—twice—in the White House. Then, as a harsher style of politics gained favor, it all fell apart. Today, a future Bush dynasty looks even more unlikely than it did fifty years ago.”

Filed Under: Bush Legacy

Michael Gerson Is Dead

November 17, 2022 at 9:31 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Former Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson, who later became a Washington Post columnist and vocal critic of Donald Trump, died of cancer at age 58, the Washington Post reports.

Gerson was a truly beautiful writer. His essay on dropping off his son at college is particularly memorable, especially this line: “He has a wonderful future in which my part naturally diminishes. I have no possible future that is better without him close.”

Filed Under: Bush Legacy

George Bush to Hold Public Conversation with Zelensky

November 10, 2022 at 2:09 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Former President George W. Bush will hold a public conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky next week with the aim of underscoring the importance of the US continuing to support Ukraine’s war effort against Russia,” CNN reports.

“The event, which will take place in Dallas and be open to the public, comes amid questions about the willingness of the former president’s Republican Party to maintain support for Ukraine.”

Filed Under: Bush Legacy, Foreign Affairs

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goddard-bw-snapshotTaegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.

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