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...enter the president. Or maybe not. The White House knows how well it has worked for President Bush to stay out of the fray, and Bush and his advisers are going to be very careful about putting too much of the president's capital on the line. Staying out of the fights over the details and announcing only broad guidelines allows the administration to claim victory over whatever may pass. The White House knows that the more partisan role the president plays, the more it may threaten his strong bi-partisan position as war leader. And finally, some...
...Sure, those in Bush II don't want to repeat the elder President Bush's mistake of losing the domestic ground while winning the foreign war, but the White House has seen great benefit from keeping the president out of the fray. It protects him politically, but it also gets results. "We maintained this posture and we got an airline security bill," says an administration member involved in the stimulus strategy. "How is that hurting...
...Members of Bush's own party realize a wartime president can't play legislative cop all the time, but they are now pleading for action. "I understand what he's doing staying above the fray," says Ohio Congressman Rob Portman, a key White House ally on the Hill, "but the president is going to have to engage a little more if he doesn't want us to be paralyzed." Some high ranking Republicans are less modulated than Portman, complaining that the White House is selling out fellow Republicans to protect the president's political interests. As Bush blames Congress...
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...Then in March 2001, Rose entered the journalistic fray when he penned an op-ed in the Crimson that called for corporate sponsorship of Harvard athletics. Among other things, Rose pointed to poor athletic equipment and sparse attendance as some of the things sponsorship could cure, and one of the reasons he “came to love road games.” His article was in response to an earlier story in the paper about the administration’s stance on corporate sponsorship...