"...His mandate was pretty much crushed when the Republicans seized Congress in 1994. Republicans had a mandate - he didn't...."
The administration and the GOP should take a lesson from Clinton's first term debacle. Bush needs to prioritize his policy goals and pick his spots. My preference would be for strong forward movement on life issues and entitlement reform and more conciliation on foreign policy goals, with domestic and European enemies. This will please the social conservative while appeasing moderates. We need to make the tent bigger without alienating the newly motivated GOP voters. It won't be easy.
I'm not going to worry about it.
If I had all the answers, I'd be President.
I'm quite certain they know what they are doing.