Two years into the Obama administration, President George W. Bush’s newly-released memoirs (and his promotional media tour) have rekindled interest in many of the previous administration’s executive decisions, especially those involving national security. And with the hindsight of being two years removed from his tenure, President Bush has stood by a majority of his foreign policy decisions– and within his administration, he’s not alone.

Former Bush speechwriter and Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson is a bit wary of the Tea Party movement, to say the least, but still considers himself a conservative. Defending his position to an increasingly incredulous Laura Ingraham on The O’Reilly Factor last night, however, he found himself fighting comparisons to DNC chair Howard Dean, the progressive website MoveOn.org, and a certain allegedly left-of-center cable network

Former Bush speechwriter David Frum has been fired from the American Enterprise Institute, the right-wing research institution where he has been a resident fellow since 2003. The announcement comes shortly after Frum received a rush of criticism for a column suggesting that the passing of health care reform was the Republicans’ “Waterloo,” and that they “suffered their most crushing legislative defeat since the 1960s.”

Republican Congressman Darrell Issa is still not taking Former Bush speechwriter David Frum seriously. He went on CNN’s Rick’s List earlier today to clarify comments he made to the Huffington Post yesterday suggesting that Frum’s advice to Republicans should be completely disregarded because of his former employer. And by clarify, we mean reinforce.

ABC is deploying former Bush strategist and political commentator Matthew Dowd to moderate their Sunday political program This Week this Sunday, which is currently rotating hosts on a weekly basis. With Jake Tapper, Barbara Walters, and Terry Moran among past rotating hosts, Dowd will be the first moderator since Stephanopoulos himself to have a background outside of objective journalism.

Throughout the Bush administration, Jon Stewart made a lot of hay from the steady flow of foibles, flaws and foul-ups of the former president. When Barack Obama took office, many television critics breathlessly asked “where would Jon Stewart get his material now?” Well, it turns out that A) nobody is beyond reproach; and B) a good comedy bit is more important to Stewart than any perceived political bias, as evidenced by his take down of the President’s use of a teleprompter in a sixth grade classroom. Video after the jump.

to come out of Meet The Press this week has been author Jon Krakauer‘s assertion that General Stanley McChrystal, commander of the U.S. forces in Afghanistan, was implicated in the cover-up about the death of Pat Tillman, the football-star-turned-Army Ranger who was killed in Afghanistan in 2004, ostensibly in an enemy attack but later revealed to have been killed by friendly fire. The Tillman story is tragic enough without the added layer of deception: The Bush Administration knew he’d been killed by friendly fire, yet lionized him as a hero falling to the enemy in a PR blitz. The subsequent discovery of that cover-up was a terrible black eye for the last administration — and, it seems, continues to have echoes in this one.

Author Jon Krakauer has penned a new book about Tillman and was on Meet the Press over the weekend discussing it McChrystal’s role in the initial cover up. Krakauer says that McChrystal knew Tillman’s death was from friendly fire almost immediately and to claim that he didn’t is “preposterous” and “unbelievable.”