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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It will pass in Texas by a vote of 2-to-1,
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 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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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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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.
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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.
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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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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.