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Seattle Poll. Would love to see it turn for Bush. Here's the link:KiroRadioPoll

Trailing the Presient across America, the White House press corps logged tens of thousands of miles this election cycle, condemned to watch Bush deliver the same stump speech several times a day. Jaded and bored, we pounced on the gaffes and yawned at the platitudes. In light of the midterm eletions results, however, it is clear we were watching an exceptionally effective campaigner - as Max Cleland, Jean Carnahan, Bill McBride, and several other stunned victims, still reeling from defeat, can attest.What made the president's campaign appearances work so well? Certainly it wasn't their setting. He gave most of his...

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President Bush has trouble concealing his sympathy for Israel. When White House aides suggested Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz as Bush's personal representative to address the pro-Israel rally in Washington on April 15, the president responded without hesitation. He could have had a low-level official from the State Department or the National Security Council or the White House staff speak at the event, someone with less of a reputation as a firm supporter of Israel, someone who'd signal friendship with Israel but not strong backing in the current fighting with Palestinians, someone whose prescence wouldn't upset Europeans and Arabs. Bush...

I recently asked three former solicitors general — Democrats Walter Dellinger and Seth Waxman and Republican Kenneth Starr — to name the nation's greatest appellate lawyers. One name that appears on all three lists is that of Washington, D.C. attorney John Roberts, whom President Bush named almost a year ago to be a judge on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. "In my view," said Dellinger, "there is no better appellate advocate than John Roberts." With cross-party kudos like this, you might think that Roberts would have an easy time winning confirmation. In fact, he can't even get a hearing...

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Perhaps the most telling thing you can say about Laura Bush is that most people, including her political adversaries, seem genuinely fond of her, something that could never be said about her flinty predecessor. One always got the impression that even Hillary Rodham Clinton's friends didn't exactly like her. They respected her, of course, as did so much of the "I am Woman" rank and file, who saw her as the first bona fide bra burner to infiltrate the White house. She planted her man-eating maiden name like a black flag in her famous monogram, and Capitol Hill shuddered. Fearing ...

Americans went to their comfortable beds on the night of September 10 and awoke to a dawn drawn in blood. By the time the sun had set again, the hideous scar in the wall of the Pentagon and the cascading horror of the World Trade towers would be forever fused in our memory with the burning hulls of sunken battleships at Pearl Harbor. Violence of this enormity is not easily or quickly absorbed. The numbers alone stun the imagination. Eleven million square feet of office space - more than can be found in the entire city of Dallas - ...