The detail gatherer in Broder often tends to miss forests for trees. A simple explanation for Bush's success is as you put matters, Bush is an idea oriented manager. That simple fact along with his born again Christian orientation on good vs evil makes him do things because they are correct in his estimate, not because they are feasible. That is why he tried for education reform and got back a shriveled version of his proposal, and signed it anyway. But he tried the right road in the first instance. Broder thinks that he's going to try something different now. I'll guess that is incorrect: Bush is just not going to accept halfway results as acceptable responses.

I liked how he had to admit that it was the Democrats who have been "accidentally" in power for the last 17 months-- because of Jeffords and Carnahan.

I liked how he had to admit that it was the Democrats who have been "accidentally" in power for the last 17 months-- because of Jeffords and Carnahan.

As Shiloh's repeated posts show, sometimes your comment response time is slow to register a submittal. After you post alot, you get used to pushing the link once and once only.

Yeah, but it's free. I go through and delete repeats when I can.