WP: For Bush, Next Moves Are Key to Rest of Term

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/04/AR2005090400597.html

The first week of September 2005 likely will be remembered as one of the most troubled weeks of George W. Bush's presidency, a time in which natural disaster combined with bureaucratic bungling in ways that threatened to inundate an administration already on the defensive.

Even before Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast last Monday, Bush was buffeted by public dissatisfaction over the war in Iraq and consumer outrage over rising gasoline prices. But the federal government's widely criticized response to the hurricane's devastation in New Orleans and elsewhere turned a challenging environment into one that is potentially overwhelming.

His success in undoing the negative perceptions of the past few days could be critical to sustaining the political capital necessary to achieve other objectives of his second term -- from avoiding further erosion of support for his Iraq policies to domestic initiatives yet to come.

One goal is the reshaping of the federal judiciary, and the death of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist late Saturday presents Bush with the second opportunity in two months to put his stamp on the high court. It also adds to the burdens of an already besieged White House.

[TheFriar]

1. why don't they just say Bush is God?

The media backpedalling has started.

[Fovea]

2. Do you think they have to floss and gargle

after writing this sort of tripe?

[autorank]

3. DC Metro Area to World: Please get us a good paper, not great, just good.

The WaPost is a vomitorium, it is a pack of lies every single day, and it doesn't even have a good sports section! There is no excuse for this piece of trash and the idiots who run and 'report' for it.

Memo to Post: a) Bush lost 2000 (their consortium counted the votes and proved it); b) Bush almost assuredly lost 2004; c) Bush is finished now after this...you don't rebound from torturing your own masses for days on national TV. He's through.

If the Post had even one iota of intelligence and morality, it would demand that the whole rotten crew resign, and do so now.

[KoKo]

4. Suck Up! Suck Up! Suck Up! Dan Baltz ....Get out of DC Dan.....there's

a whole world out there that isn't "partisan" who sees this Emperor who has no Clothes or Morals or common decency for what he is now.

September 11th that you and your other "SUCK UP PAPER...NYT's will Pale and go off into the memory whole when what happened in New Orleans is unraveled and the body count makes it the worst in our National History for any weather related disaster...

God crawl under a rock, Dan. You have defended this guy over and over....you are the "Partisan" not your readers who are suffering under this Administration who stole two elections under your stuck up nose.

You are as responsible as he is...and any of your other suck up reporters who fail to see what you have done.

:rant:

[Demeter]

5. And How Exactly Will the Next Few Weeks Differ

from the last 5 years?

[MasonJar]

6. I just e-mailed them that just because Bush is more worried

about political fallout than people dying that they should know better.