Bush Administration

From NationalJournal.com: If the economy produces jobs over the next eight months at the same pace as it did over the past four months, the nation will have created more jobs in 2010 alone than it did over the entire eight years of George W. Bush’s presidency.

From Michael Fleming at Variety.com: Hours after the inauguration of President Barack Obama, outgoing Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has signed with WMA to pursue opportunities that will likely include books and lectures.

The Bush administration called again Monday for a “sustainable cease-fire” in the Mideast and demanded that Hamas stop its attacks on Israel.

Before leaving for the holidays, President Bush on Tuesday commuted one prison sentence and granted 19 pardons, including one to a man who helped the Jewish resistance in the 1940s.

President George W. Bush‘s foreign policies may be unpopular in the Middle East, but Arab leaders showered his top diplomat with jewelry worth far more than a quarter of a million dollars last year.

From Jonathan Karl at ABC News: In an <a href="http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=6464697&page=1" target="external"> exclusive interview Monday with ABC News</a>, Vice President Dick Cheney issued an unapologetic defense of the Bush administration's anti-terror policies, including the use of waterboarding.