Cal Jillson
Cal Jillson
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The Bush administration is in significant difficulty, and the leading figures in both the House and the Senate are in significant difficulty. All of these difficulties are going to go on.
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President Bush is trying to regain his footing and develop some policy momentum for his second term, and this is just another weight around his ankles.
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I think of 2002 as the last gasp of the old order. The first gasp of the new order might well be 2010.
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If DeLay were not indicted, he probably wouldn't even have a strong enough opponent where he would have to spend all that money on his own race.
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I consider DeLay in significant danger of losing his seat in the general election.
It makes you wonder, when they have so many problems, why they would let this fester the way they have.
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The ministers may think this is a religious, biblical issue but for Perry, while it may be that too, it's also a powerful political tool.
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It will pass in Texas by a vote of 2-to-1,
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The glow of the first week of an unrestricted generosity is wearing off, ... Now we're on to the stories of crime and cost and what are these guys going to do to the partisan balance.
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If you're betting your own money, you bet on Perry (to win re-election). But he can be beaten because there are reservations about him that run deep.
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It's hard to catch lightning in a bottle twice. The fact that he wasn't able to build on that achievement (in 1996) is a comment on the uniqueness of that race and what he had to offer as a candidate.
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People have real reservations about the Republicans, but they aren't clear what the Democrats stand for. There is a widely perceived general disarray in the Democratic Party. It's too early yet for a leader to emerge.
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That was an effective strategy to get through the primary. But in the general election, he'll have to face Lampson and Steve Stockman, as well as the press, both local and national.