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...tried to combine the two, Sandel said that Democrats have largely avoided the issue. “For the most part conservatives talk about morality and soulcraft in politics,” said Sandel, who added that Democrats have ceded the discussion of moral values to Republicans since the Reagan presidency. Sandel said that because this long-term trend , Democratic candidates have been largely unsuccessful in elections. He noted that of all the Democratic presidential candidates since Johnson, only two have been elected, Carter and Clinton. Both men used “moral and spiritual language to knit together...
...With his nomination of Harriet Miers, who had little experience with constitutional law, Bush went with advice that he pick someone from outside the "judicial monastery." This time, the President went with one of the high priests. As assistant to the solicitor general under President Ronald Reagan, Alito argued 12 cases before the Supremes, and has presented at least two dozen before federal courts of appeal. And while a limited paper trail was one of the Democrats' few quibbles with the record of Judge John Roberts as he was being considered for chief justice, Alito has a four-lane highway...
...struggling GOP. But as Bush tries to regain his stride, he's expected to start by reaching out to his Republican supporters. Alito looks to be a good beginning; the choice of the Yale Law School grad, who spent a decade working in the Justice Department for both Reagan and the first President Bush, has conservatives excited. In another move to rebuild support among his base, Bush seems now more eager to attack the growth in federal spending. He gave a speech last week calling for spending cuts to help balance the budget and pay for Hurricane Katrina; Congress...
...fancy Washington country club by friends. Since the club didn't allow the use of cell phones, I kept running from pool to parking lot to try to reach Libby, who was traveling to Norfolk, Va., with Vice President Dick Cheney for the commissioning of the U.S.S. Ronald Reagan. Eventually I raced home without showering in order to take Libby's call. When he finally reached me at around 3 p.m., we spoke for a few minutes as I sprawled on my bed. I had no idea that that brief phone call, along with a conversation with Karl Rove...
...ROBERT DALLEK History professor, Boston University Bush is in a situation where you have the whiff of Vietnam and the smell of Watergate, and there are few examples of Presidents who got into trouble this deep and worked out of it. Reagan ran into a firestorm over Iran-contra, and he was rescued by his relationship with Gorbachev and dealing with the Soviet Union. For Bush, the Iraq war is a burden he won't be able to shake until he can end the conflict. All the rhetoric about democracy, the Iraqi constitution--I think the public is skeptical since...