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...That kind of buyer's remorse has Florida conservatives crowing. "The entire Crist operation appears to be in a death spiral," says GOP consultant Brett Doster, an ally of Crist's conservative predecessor, Jeb Bush, whose fans say Crist's centrist agenda has betrayed Bush's legacy. "It's hard to imagine at this point what he could possibly do to reverse this." And it will be even harder if Bush decides, as many think he'll do after the current Florida legislative session ends in May, to endorse Rubio. "Jeb," Doster adds, "is the 800-lb. gorilla...
...Taiwan and Tibet have long been points of dispute between the U.S. and China. During 2009 they were largely avoided, as Obama delayed final approval of the arms sale, which was initially greenlighted by his predecessor, George W. Bush, and postponed the Dalai Lama meeting to avoid offending Beijing ahead of his first state visit to China. Following this year's arms-sale announcement, however, China cut off high-level military exchanges with the U.S., which had been recently restored following China's protest over a previous weapons package that was approved by Bush...
Vaca says that remark is what compelled Maciel victims to tell their stories for the book Vows of Silence, published in 2004. They eventually got the Vatican, even under John Paul II, to take their allegations seriously, but Church watchers say Benedict's current mission to canonize his predecessor is another reason Rome won't want to punish the Legion too harshly. "The Legionaries of Christ are going to withstand this [latest] blow," says Elio Masferrer, an expert on the Catholic Church in Latin America at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Rome, he predicts, "will not take any meaningful...
...Failing to Empower Cabinet Members on Domestic Policy. Obama has put numerous talented people in his Cabinet, from a Nobel Prize winner to several successful governors, but like his predecessor, he has no system to get the most out of them. Cabinet members in the domestic-policy cluster have less input, and less of a platform, in determining and selling Administration policies than their counterparts at State and Defense. Finding the right balance - giving the domestic Cabinet enough influence, but not too much - is tough, but Obama, like Bush, has placed too little weight on the side of the Secretaries...
...chief of staff's office. The more cautionary note, however, is that Bush never solved these problems, which plagued him from his earliest months in the White House until the day he left. Candidate Obama's repudiation of Bush's eight-year presidency was focused on his predecessor's ideology. He should have taken stock of Bush's executive process as well...