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...Rhodes scholar were to run again, he would easily defeat his veep and W.? The most successful politician qua politician of our day, Bill still gets 60 percent approval ratings, as if the Gallup Poll keeps on questioning the same pool. Al failed to use his lame-duck boss to the best of his advantage, a boss who would have zealously leapt at the opportunity to see more of himself in The New York Times...
...There is a special cruelty in expecting broadcasters to read anything more demanding than a TelePrompTer on live television, let alone in front of millions of viewers and the boss. It was a chilly night in Washington, and in rather a touching moment on MSNBC, one analyst's hands were actually shaking as he pawed desperately through his little SCOTUS booklet, apparently not reading according to the prescribed manner of any written language but anxious to show he was trying. As anchors at their respective desks champed at their mikes for the single answer, the money shot, the one payoff...
While in New York this summer, I met up with a Harvard grad who told me about a run-in he had had with his boss (who has no Harvard connection). He told me he had come up with an effective, creative solution to improve a database. "My boss took my ideas and even praised them. I thought I would be given more responsibilities on the next deal, but I was given the same mundane work as the other first-year analysts," he said. My friend then told his boss he wanted more challenging work.That didn't go over...
...Defense Secretary under President Bush--has always been that of the ideal lieutenant: loyal, competent and self-effacing. His Secret Service code name under Ford, "Backseat," reflected his deferential style. But Cheney is currently playing such a high-profile role for Bush that lately he has been overshadowing his boss. In the first crazy 36 hours after election night, it was Cheney, not Bush, who made the key decision to ask his old colleague James Baker to head Bush's Florida legal team. And in taking to the airwaves as spokesman and transition director, Cheney has been so clearly...
Whatever the composition of the final Bush team, Cheney would be its anchor. When healthy, he sends enormously reassuring signals to Republicans, the nation and overseas. He is known from Keokuk to Kathmandu. That is not yet true of the man poised to be his boss, and it would take some growth in Washington for Bush to make up the deficit. The first step will be for Bush to put his hand on the Bible in January and finally take office. Now it's up to Cheney to help get him there...