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...flag-waving, freedom-loving American, I would gladly back the mission to Mars if the first person to go were President George W. Bush. I am quite certain that we won't be able to find Vice President Dick Cheney, or I would insist that he go, too. Colleen Stone Merced...
...question how the intelligence was used--but a Senate investigation might. Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee weighed a request by its top Democrat, Jay Rockefeller, calling for the Senate's probe of the CIA's Iraq intelligence to be broadened to examine whether Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and other Administration officials hyped or otherwise mischievously handled the evidence to build support for the war. Chairman Pat Roberts, a Kansas Republican, postponed action on Rockefeller's motion for at least a week while Roberts measured the mood in his ranks. As a possible concession to the Democrats, Roberts...
Meanwhile, at the White House and Bush-Cheney campaign headquarters in a sedate office building in Arlington, Va., all is relatively calm. A lot can happen between February and November: more bad guys captured abroad, more good economic news at home. Pollster Matthew Dowd frequently reassures folks that the President's numbers are not unlike Ronald Reagan's in 1984 or Clinton's in 1996, that a certain weakening is to be expected as the opposition converges behind a nominee, who gets a big boost of positive press coverage. "Just because they're out there calling us a liar doesn...
George W. Bush's choice of Dick Cheney as his running mate defied the usual calculus of vice-presidential selection: a retired Cabinet Secretary from a state with just three electoral votes plus a charisma deficit didn't appear to equal a brilliant electoral strategy. But Cheney, it turned out, seemed to compensate for Bush's perceived weaknesses. Though only 5 1/2 years older than Bush, he added an air of experience and wisdom to a candidate who was only in his sixth year of politics...
...Cheney's gravitas now feels more like gravity dragging Bush down. A TIME/CNN poll last week found that 43% of Americans would like to see Bush keep Cheney on the ticket, while 42% would like to see him gone. A recent Fox poll showed Cheney's approval 10% behind Bush...