Cal Jillson
Cal Jillson
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People know we're running huge deficits and they know the costs have just rocketed upward. Many Americans are now looking at the Iraq situation in that context.
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The president is doing the right thing to assure people that the federal government is much better prepared for Rita than it was for Katrina.
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I expect him to make it through the primary fairly handily, but my sense of this is that DeLay is in trouble over the course of this election cycle.
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For most voters, schools are the No. 1 issue,
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He has some time, maybe six to nine months, to convince Americans we are on a clear path to a stable, democratic Iraq. If that remains unclear by next summer, the attacks by Democrats will become unrestrained and Republicans will be running for cover.
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At some point they'll have to be summoned to the table.
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Since the late 1920s Texas has almost consistently had a member of the high leadership in either the House or Senate or both. We simply don't have that anymore.
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Lots of businesses already have domestic-partner benefits and those are already resolved. What business groups need is stability; they need to know what the law is and move on.
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There's going to be significant and long-term damage to Bush, especially because this disaster comes on the heels of a slow bleeding of his approval ratings over the past year that accelerated over the summer.
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There's no way back for Bush on Iraq. He can't run away from that policy. He has to secure something he can plausibly point to as success.
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is going to plague him not only in his second term but in history even in Texas.
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The Republican governor and the Republican majority in the Legislature are unable to close that out. The fact they have failed to deal with public education, either education reforms or funding, has come home to roost.
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This isn't a good day for Tom Craddick. A number of his very close associates were indicted in circumstances he was actively involved in, ... There is guilt by association, but if (Craddick) is not indicted, it's almost like being declared innocent.
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DeLay did what he had to do to remain a plausible candidate in November. But he's got a tremendous amount of work to do still. He goes forward into a meat grinder.