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...Sharon's refusal to negotiate with the Palestinians under his leadership. But that's unlikely, since the administration has already made clear that no matter how bad Arafat has been, he remains the only address for dialogue with the Palestinians. Still, the bipartisan groundswell of support for Sharon on Capitol Hill last week signals the potentially damaging domestic political cost for Bush attached to any pressure on Israel to resume talks...
...anticipation of Bush's now delayed speech was that moderate Arabs and other mediators have been waiting for Washington to firm up its own vision of two states living side by side. But that would force the Bush administration to disappoint Sharon and his considerable entourage on Capitol Hill, or else to disappoint the Arab moderates on whose support the U.S. must rely in its war on terrorism. Or, more likely, to disappoint both...
Bush's zeal for secrecy was on full display last week--and it irritated the people he now needs to pass his plan. Capitol Hill was left completely out of the loop. Before the speech, the White House kept its plan under wraps as aides fanned out to test elements of the proposal on informal focus groups. At a dinner party thrown by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld early this month, deputy chief of staff Josh Bolten asked guests what they thought about giving Cabinet status to the Homeland Security office. Most of the guests opposed the idea, as they believed...
...turf belongs not just to the shifting bureaucracies themselves but also to their employee unions, the lobbyists who do business with them and their patrons on Capitol Hill. Even before the President gave his speech Thursday night, House Transportation Committee chairman Don Young served notice on Speaker Dennis Hastert that he had no intention of giving up his committee's jurisdiction over the Coast Guard and the TSA. And California Democrat Ellen Tauscher, who supports most of the Bush plan, insists his decision to include her district's Lawrence Livermore nuclear-weapons lab in the new department is a mistake...
While it has been Bush's preference to float above other fights on Capitol Hill, leaving him in a position to take credit for whatever emerges, both Democrats and Republicans say this is one fight that promises to be so big and complicated that he will have to engage. His surprise announcement created a surge of momentum behind his proposal, but it could quickly disintegrate. "Only the President has the power to 'crack heads,'" the centrist Democratic Leadership Council noted in its daily bulletin. "If he doesn't do so, then reorganization won't accomplish much, especially in the crucial...