I think she's going to have to think about this. |
[Even some of President George W Bush's staunch supporters are worried.] He is a strong President but he has never really focused on the importance of good execution, ... I think that is true in many parts of his presidency. |
Actually, we have a pretty terrific Army. |
All defense secretaries in wartime have, needless to say, made misjudgments. |
Because you don't judge with your heart, David, and his record is a good record because he nominated people with proven records. It's not a good record because we all trusted George W. Bush, with all due respect. He's a good president but he's not a great constitutional scholar. |
Bush is no conservative. |
But surely Don Rumsfeld is not the defense secretary Bush should want to have for the remainder of his second term. |
disappointed, depressed and demoralized. |
For one thing, Democrats can explain that resolutions of censure have typically been reserved for ethics violations, not for meretricious statements - thereby perhaps succeeding in confusing the debate and wriggling off the hook. |
For that matter, is the Saudi government doing as much as it can to stop its young men from trooping to Iraq to kill Americans? |
from weakness. |
He has put up an unknown and undistinguished figure for an opening that conservatives worked for a generation to see filled with a jurist of high distinction. |
He's always been—weaker is not quite fair, but he's always been a less powerful chief of staff than we're used to. |
I believe, if I had to predict - and I don't know more about this than anybody else reading the papers - that both Libby and Rove will be indicted, not for what the original referral was about but for some combination of disclosing classified information or perhaps failing to be fully candid with federal investigators or with the grand jury. |
I don't think this is serious. Most conservatives are very pleased. . . . He has a long record, and has been very consistent. |