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President Donald Trump praised conservative operative Roger Stone for refusing to cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller in a Monday morning tweet. Stone has repeatedly declared that he will not “flip” or testify against Trump in any capacity and believes he is being unfairly targeted by Mueller. “There’s no circumstance under which I would testify against the President because I’d have to bear false witness against him … I’d have to make things up, and I’m not going to do that,” he said Sunday on ABCNews.

NEW ORLEANS — Republicans head into 2012 united in their disdain for an unpopular, Big Government-loving, internationalist president. The name of that president: George W. Bush. From Capitol Hill to the statehouses to the presidential primary, Republicans are turning their back on almost every important accomplishment of the Bush administration.

Man, I miss the fiscal discipline of the Bush era!Gulp. I never expected to write those words. The Bush-era Republicans were out-of-control big spenders, fiending for appropriations, handing out largesse, creating giant new health-care entitlements here, building nations there, all with a devil-may-care attitude about where the money would come from. They were all carrot and no stick, cutting taxes but not doing a thing about spending.And then: A mid-year budget review by the Obama administration forecasts the deficit will be $1.47 trillion this year and $1.42 trillion next year as the U.S. struggles to recover from the recession. This...