The rebuilding efforts ahead will take place in the White House as well as along the Gulf Coast, says Bruce Buchanan, a political scientist at the University of Texas. This goes right to the core of his strength and right to the core of the thing that has enabled him to stay plausible despite the political partisan divide in the country, ... Now he's in damage control big time.
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Since her husband is down in the polls, she's picking up the slack. There's no one remotely associated with the administration who is at the popularity level that she's at now.Bruce Buchanan
Today's events put him in a position of having to defend the ethical status of the Bush administration, to the extent that he is implicated in the activities of Rove and Libby, ... It raises questions about the man who said he would bring an ethical tone back to Washington.
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Their biggest problem is developing some bipartisan way to deal with Iraq. They're still alternating between bipartisan rhetoric and impugning the patriotism of those who disagree with Bush. The daily bad news from Iraq doesn't help.
Bruce Buchanan
It's hard for me to see how he gets back up into a positive rating in the opinion polls. Congress has got no stomach for much of the agenda that he has.
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A lot of these moves seem to me to be pretty much in keeping with moving chairs around the deck. The title kind of ratified what he was already doing, and that was making a connection for the president between politics and policy. He has always done that.
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Rove has been instrumental in Bush's rise from the very beginning, because of his connection to politics and his fascination with policy and the close personal relationship that exists between them, ... It puts Bush in a very dependent position.
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