The White House needs the kind of rapid response internet video done for Leahy's performance on MTP that Fred produced for Michael Moore's outburst a few weeks ago. But this White House doesn't believe in fighting back. They really are trying to "change the tone" and have unilaterally disarmed.
Unfortunately Bush is right, in principle and in an ideal world, and Clinton's "permanent campaign" style of government is one of the big things wrong right now in Washington. The problems that the Bush administration has encountered as a result of doing the right thing has guaranteed, IMHO, that no president, D or R, will ever play it that way again.
I'm afraid that's correct. There will be no actual governing, only constant "campaigning."