President Bush faces second term blues

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When President George Bush famously said on the day after his re-election that he had earned political capital and was now going to spend it, he was already succumbing to that classic second-term delusion of infallibility.

With approval ratings at their lowest level of the presidency - over the situation in Iraq and an unpopular domestic agenda - it may be that Mr Bush had earned less capital than he thought.

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As the president's closest political adviser, Karl Rove, has made clear, the ultimate goal is to make the Republican Party the natural party of government for the foreseeable future.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4628377.stm