Word: allbaugh
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FEMA DIRECTOR Joe Allbaugh Big Country...
Ever since, Bush has made the nickname his signature gesture of outreach. There is scarcely a legislator left in Texas who hasn't been renamed by Bush. His staff members, from the "High Prophet" (Karen Hughes) to "Big Country" (Joe Allbaugh) to "Boy Genius" (Karl Rove), were all tagged years ago. Members of the press covering Bush now answer like so many fighter pilots to handles as varied as "Stretch," "Pancho," "Grandpa" and "Dulce." And in Washington, Bush has already started spraying nicknames at delegations of visiting lawmakers. George Miller, the hulking Democrat from California, is now known...
...will play some tunes--put together by the Friends of W., Inc., a down-home group including Hyperion Energy, Boeing, Dow Chemical, Reliant Energy, AOL Time Warner, Texas Utilities and Motorola. Guests include campaign chairman Don Evans and the Bush Iron Triangle--Karl Rove, Karen Hughes and Joe Allbaugh. Marriott Wardman Park Hotel...
...right wing hasn't missed the most distinctive thing about the Bush team's ideology--it's lack of any to speak of. Aside from his notably conservative running mate, Dick Cheney, nearly everybody on most of the Bush short lists for a top position--from logistics-whiz Joe Allbaugh to international-law consultant Robert Zoellick--is an experienced Republican pragmatist. Yet Bush's aides have been sensitive to the conservative voices in the party. You can see it in the debate over how Bush is assembling--perhaps the word is reassembling--a foreign policy team...
Bush is sensitive enough about the Restoration label that he is certain to bring in new faces wherever he can. Bush would like to have his three top Texas loyalists close by in the White House: political guru Karl Rove, press attache Karen Hughes and operations chief Joe Allbaugh--if he can get him to come. (Allbaugh, who isn't keen to move to D.C., joked to TIME recently that he was "looking for lottery numbers so I can tell the Governor to 'Go to hell.'") Bush's alter ego, Don Evans, a friend going back 25 years, will probably...