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...full four-year term, political analysts say. A wobbly, Kadima-led government could end up being pulled in a dozen opposing directions by its future coalition partners. These will almost certainly include Labor (with 20 Knesset seats) and the Sephardic Orthodox party Shas (with 13) and possibly the right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu party (also with 13) representing the Russian-speaking immigrants around the country...
...Card, known around the West Wing as "Secretary Card" for his service as Transportation Secretary to President George H.W. Bush, served for nearly triple the average tenure of a White House chief of staff. He is spoken of worshipfully by his underlings, and is one of the few White House officials that other aides will tell you they love. But in the lobbyist/strategist/pollster coterie, he was getting the bulk of the blame for the White House?s recent self-inflicted wounds...
...talking about the transition for three weeks, but the 8:30 a.m. announcement was a surprise to almost everyone in Washington. "On most days," Bush said with Card, 58, at his right hand and Bolten, 51, at his left, "Andy is the first one to arrive in the West Wing and among the last to leave. And during those long days over many years I've come to know Andy as more than my Chief of Staff. He is leaving the White House, but he will always be my friend. Laura and I have known Andy and his wife, Kathi...
...policy. So he is steeped in the current system. As a further sign of stability amidst change, White House insiders predicted that Bolten?s successor will be his deputy, Joel Kaplan - a veteran of both the Marine Corps and Bolten?s policy shops in Austin and the West Wing. Officials said Bolten will look at the White House from top to bottom and may make changes of his own, but a radical realignment would shock people quite close to Bush...
...real loser in the election may well turn out to be Likud?s Netanyahu. A gruff ex-Prime Minister nicknamed Bibi, Netanyahu managed to anger most of his right-wing voters after taking office in 1996 by cutting subsidies for the big families of ultra-Orthodox Jews and by giving away part of Hebron to the Palestinians. This time around, Netanyahu tried to stop Kadima?s surge in the polls by scare-mongering about Palestinian terrorism and hurling personal insults against Olmert, but these tactics backfired. At best, Likud can hope to become a junior partner as part...