Cal Jillson
Cal Jillson
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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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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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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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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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is going to plague him not only in his second term but in history even in Texas.
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At some point they'll have to be summoned to the table.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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.
It makes you wonder, when they have so many problems, why they would let this fester the way they have.
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It will pass in Texas by a vote of 2-to-1,