Ron Brownstein Quotes (4 Quotes)

I think the overwhelming likelihood is that in the next Congress, you'll see even smaller majorities than we have now. And we weren't really able to get anything done in the last few years,

One of the clearest tests of leadership for a president is to, on occasion, go against his party. No one wants to do it. So I think the test for the president will be if he wants this bill and he can't work out a deal... will he ask them for an up or down vote on it

So he's got an environment in which you don't really have a bonfire burning, a grassroots demand for tax cuts, ... He's going to have to go out and make that case because otherwise Democrats are going to be able to go out and say, 'Look, this will endanger programs that you care about.'

They believe that they can make him the symbol of what Democrats, in particular, and perhaps swing voters don't like about the Bush administration, ... Whether it's the questions about the intelligence before the war, the relationship with Halliburton -- in a whole series of ways, I think they do see Dick Cheney as a target.