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...they maintain an illogical ban on postseason play that is as ill-conceived as it is discriminatory...
...troops could be pondering questions like that for years. The Pentagon is planning to maintain in Iraq a force of the current size--138,000--for the next two years. And the top brass will probably boost the numbers to almost 160,000 for the next three months to bolster security for Iraq's elections. The Army's top officer conceded last week that the current 12-month tours in Iraq cannot be scaled back to six or nine months, as the White House wanted. The long deployments are pinching recruitment and retention, especially as veterans contemplate returning to Iraq...
...realities he spent the past two campaign years denying. There are at least four titanic "reality-based" problems that this "faith-based" President now confronts. First, the U.S. does not have the military resources to continue an expansive, unilateral foreign policy; we may not even have the resources to maintain our troop strength in Iraq at its current level for very long. Second, we don't have the money to fund any of Bush's domestic plans--certainly not the privatization of Social Security, which has an up-front cost of $1 trillion. Third, Democrats are furious at the bilious...
...Bush during the endless election season. Those blatherers have their enlightened self-interest, which is to keep up the carnival assault on liberals. But contentiousness can no longer be in the President's interest if he wants to get anything done. His success now depends on his ability to maintain his principles, yes, but to do so in a way that seeks to heal the deep public wound we have suffered. His instinctive style defeated John Kerry's cerebral calculations. The question now is whether Bush's excellent political instincts lead him back to first things, the things he promised...
That, in turn, helped the G.O.P., which owned a 28-22 gubernatorial majority going into the election, maintain its margin. Five states (Indiana, Missouri, North Dakota, Utah and Vermont) went Republican, and five went Democratic (Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, North Carolina and West Virginia), with Washington's race too close to call. But in the most closely watched and heavily bankrolled races, the G.O.P. prevailed. In Missouri Matt Blunt, the son of four-term Congressman Roy Blunt, beat state auditor Claire McCaskill; the two candidates spent a combined $7.3 million, also a likely state record. And in Utah a scion...