Ross Baker
Ross Baker
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The president may have to do with the State of the Union address something that rarely gets done with State of the Union addresses - and that is to be inspirational.
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It's window dressing for the benefit of social conservatives, ... The president may feel that whatever support he will lose among fiscal conservatives, he will win from conservatives proud of him for bootlegging vouchers in the relief plan.
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And Cheney is like a member of the Bush family. The president would no sooner push Cheney overboard than he would Jeb.
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It's really the policy. And policies that presidents are committed to are discarded only with great reluctance - and most often not at all.
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It created a sense of irresoluteness on the part of the administration.
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You can have a scintillating personality, a great resume; unless you're sitting on a very healthy treasury, they are going to look elsewhere. It is of critical importance. You can never do it too early. It marks you as a competitor.
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His timing, I think, was unfortunate. A junior senator in the minority party doesn't get much of an opportunity to shine.
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There is an unspoken but enormously wide gap between the views of Democrats in Washington and Democrats in the country on Iraq.
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He has the nimbleness and fancy footwork of a prima ballerina.
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He enjoys very strong support there. His problem is with swing voters.
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He obviously has to offer some words of reassuring to people on Medicare who've been baffled by the prescription drug program and encourage them to hang in.
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While the subject matter doesn't have an impact on the daily concerns of people in Ewing Township, chairmanships give you bargaining power with members of other committees. There is a prestige factor involved. You become a part of a select group of House leaders.
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So long as he is a free man, still a member of the House and participating in the conference, his influence is going to remain considerable.
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She's the original stealth candidate. It was a shrewd choice for Bush. If you can't ram somebody through who's got a higher profile, you do an end run around the opposition.