The Daily Background

Earlier today, I pointed to an Associated Press article was reporting that all 50 state governors opposed the President’s plan to cut funding to our National Guard. Well, now here’s another article that came out late yesterday (in papers today), from AP:

President Bush has been buffeted by one calamity after another. Try what he may, he just can’t seem to find traction for his second-term agenda.

With midterm congressional elections approaching, it won’t get any easier.

The bad news has been coming in waves, from furors over Hurricane Katrina and warrantless wiretapping to the error-plagued rollout of the new Medicare prescription drug program, Vice President
Dick Cheney’s hunting accident, growing civil strife in
Iraq, and now the Republican revolt over the administration’s Dubai port decision.

[…]
Republicans, who showed near unequivocal support during Bush’s first term, have been backing away as they weigh their own political situations.

Full article.

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