George Walker Bush is the forty-third and current President of the United States of America. Originally inaugurated on January 20, 2001, Bush was elected president in the 2000 presidential election and re-elected in the 2004 presidential election. He previously served as the forty-sixth Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000, and is the eldest son of former United States president George H. W. Bush.

George Herbert Walker Bush was the forty-first President of the United States, serving from 1989 to 1993. Before his presidency, Bush was the forty-third Vice President of the United States in the administration of Ronald Reagan. He has also served as the member of the United States House of Representatives for the 7th district of Texas (1967–1971), the United States Ambassador to the United Nations (1971–1973), …

Thomas Dale DeLay is a former member of the United States House of Representatives from Sugar Land, Texas. He was House Majority Leader 2003–2006 and is a prominent conservative member of the Republican Party. DeLay was first elected to the House in 1984. He became known as "The Hammer" for his enforcement of party discipline in close votes and his reputation for taking political retribution on opponents.

Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, the House Democratic leader, pressed the committee on Sunday to begin investigating and make a preliminary report within 10 days. She demanded to know who knew of the messages, whether Foley had other contacts with pages and when the Republican leadership was notified of Foley's conduct.

Al-Qaida fighters and other Sunni insurgents have largely scattered from the northern city of Mosul in the face of a U.S.-Iraqi sweep, fleeing to desert areas further south, an Iraqi commander said Sunday. He vowed the forces will not allow them to regroup.

Jeff Lamberti is the former Republican Senate leader and two term state senator representing the 35th District of the Iowa Senate, and served two terms as State Representative. In the 2006 mid-term election, Lamberti was the Republican nominee for U.S. Congress in Iowa's 3rd congressional district, losing to incumbent Democrat Leonard Boswell in a hotly contested race. Lamberti received 46% of the vote to Boswell's 52%.

Governor Bartlet was for strict state seatbelt laws, but failed to act on it, because it would waste time in the state legislature. [ 30 ] Bartlet also signed into state law the Historic Barn and Bridges Preservation Act , an act that he later regretted. [ 31 ] As Governor, Bartlet had to deal with several state lawsuits. [ 32 ] One of his primary concerns as governor was tourism.

DONALD KENNETH ALLEN , MS, DVM Dr. Allen was born on April 16, 1947, in Rockford, Illinois. He graduated from Rockford West High School in 1965, and attended junior college for one year. He enlisted in the U.S. Air Force May 12, 1967, for four years. Dr. Allen served as a military journalist for 13 months at Mactan AB, Republic of the Philippines, as photographer, reporter, and editor of the award-winning base newspaper. He served with the 467th Combat Support Group.

Chuck Muth (Citizen Outreach) - “The visceral objections to Harriet Miers have more to do with the fact that many conservative activists have been toiling in the political trenches for many years to elect a Republican president and a Republican Senate for the expressed purpose of being able to seat individuals on the nation's highest court who have the conservative judicial and intellectual star-power and brain-power we were denied by the Left when they 'borked' Robert Bork.” Read

Ari, Are you married? -MH Ari Fleischer deserves some sort of medal for keeping his composure at his press briefings. These reporters that ask the same unanswerable stupid questions over and over should not be allowed to waste our time and should not be allowed to return to future briefings. How many times does Ari have to listen to some reporter ask when the war will be over? These reporters should be escorted out of the room.

Edward W. Gillespie was named director of communications and Congressional affairs for the Republican National Committee in October 1995. He had been policy and communications director for House Majority Leader Dick Armey and was widely known for his critical role in communicating the Republican "Contract with America" in 1994. Gillespie began his Capitol Hill career in 1984 as a staffer for Rep. Andy Ireland, securing Ireland's re-election after he switched to the Republican Party.

Susan Ralston News . Republican secretary Susan Ralston resigned after discovery of her acceptance of gifts from lobbyist Abramoff in return for political intelligence on Republican President Bush and his White House while she was Republican political operative Karl Rove's under Bush. Susan Ralston SUSAN RALSTON News :

Howell Jackson (1832-1895) Howell Jackson was born in Tennessee on April 8, 1832. Jackson graduated from West Tennessee College, and spent enrolled in the law school at Cumberland University. He read law, and began practicing in the late 1850s. Tennessee's seceded from the United States in spring 1861, and Howell accepted a position with the Confederate government in Tennessee, despite his apparent opposition to Tennessee's decision to secede.

James B. Weaver was an independent thinker and third party activist who has the distinction of being the only third party presidential candidate to receive enough Oregon votes to gain Electoral College votes from Oregon. In 1892, James B. Weaver was the Presidential candidate of the Populist People's Party.

Eleanor Roosevelt believed her husband's recovery depended on his reentry into New York politics. She attended meetings, made speeches, and reported back to him on the political events of the day. By 1924 Roosevelt was at the Democratic National Convention nominating Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York for president. Smith, who lost the presidential elections in 1924 and 1928, showed Roosevelt the ways of New York state politics and pushed him to run for governor in 1928.

Ken Starr is a staunch Republican, this entire Whitewater - Lewensky - Clinton Lynch Mob thing is Republican instigated, fueled, and encouraged. Folks, take a good look!! Could this very well be "Pay Back Time" for the Republican President Richard Nixon's shameful Impeachment?? Not too hard to see it now? Somebody ought to take a long hard look at Starr, Gingrich, Hatch and a few other top Republicans who are behind the "Get Clinton Crusade".

Ebenezer Bassett was the first African-American to receive a presidential appointment. On this day in 1869, Republican President Ulysses Grant appointed him ambassador to Haiti. Bassett served in that position throughout Grant’s two terms. Michael Zak is a popular speaker…

Don Duncan, a lobbyist at ConocoPhillips, said the most onerous measures proposed for oil and gas companies, like windfall profit tax, are unlikely to become law in an environment where the voting margins are close and there is a Republican president with veto power. “Personally, I’m not that concerned with a change. We’ll work with whoever is up there,” Duncan said.

When Haley Barbour was head of the Republican National Committee from 1993 to 1997, he loathed Medicare, the federal health-care program, and tried to gun it down in the GOP “Contract with America,” which he helped write with Rep. Newt Gingrich. By 2000, Barbour had returned to his high-stakes lobbyist job at Barbour Griffith & Rogers, and had dramatically flip-flopped on Medicare, then lobbying for more federal tax dollars to be directed into the program. Why the flip-flop?