Word: second-term
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...Iraq has to be rethought-as do the current deployment levels and recruitment strategy of the U.S. military. The President may have been diverted by his second-term agenda-he vowed 60 Social Security speeches in 60 days!-and the Democrats may have given him a free pass on defense policy, but Bush's legacy is embedded in the Mesopotamian desert, and so is the nation's long-term security...
...comic tonic came at a helpful moment for the Bush operation, which is off to one of the slowest second-term starts in memory. The President's plan for an overhaul of Social Security is flat on its back, and most Washington Republicans privately say it's unlikely to get back up. Bush's popularity is sagging again, as gasoline prices have jumped, the economy has struggled to show sustained momentum, and American casualties in Iraq are mounting. Several veteran reporters at the White House correspondents' dinner noted that one reason the comedy routine fell to Laura was that Bush...
Laura has been saving Bush for decades. She persuaded him to stop drinking on his 40th birthday. He converted to her Methodism, giving him the religious faith that has guided his remarkable trajectory. At the moment she has no plans to campaign for his signature, second-term Social Security proposal, but a senior White House official says, "We're not ruling anything...
Senator Chuck Hagel, a second-term Republican from Nebraska whom some consider a likely candidate for president in 2008, spoke about current military challenges yesterday to a large crowd at the Kennedy School of Government’s (KSG) John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum...
Ever since Bernard Kerik, George W. Bush's choice to head the Department of Homeland Security, withdrew his name from consideration last December, the President had been playing it safe with his second-term nominations. And so it came as a surprise to almost everyone, in Washington and in foreign capitals, when the President last week announced John Bolton as his pick for the next U.S. ambassador to the U.N. A senior State Department official whose 24-year career in and out of government has been defined by a self-professed distaste for treaties, contempt for diplomatic niceties and hostility...