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Bush on a Roll?
By Dan Froomkin Special to washingtonpost.com Friday, July 29, 2005; 11:57 AM
August is just around the bend and while it's a notoriously slow time for news in Washington, it's hot times for presidential prognostication.
So after the dust settles from this busy week and the assessments start to pour in, how will President Bush measure up?
..........Richard W. Stevenson writes in the New York Times: "His problems remain many, and include the relentless violence in Iraq, the leak investigation that has ensnared some of his top aides and poll numbers that suggest substantial dissatisfaction with both his foreign and domestic policies. But President Bush has still had a pretty good July, showing how his own doggedness and a Republican majority in Congress have consistently allowed him to push his agenda forward even when the political winds are in his face. . . .
"The president's record over the past few weeks, combined with generally good economic news and word that the budget deficit is shrinking, suggests that Mr. Bush has hardly lapsed into the lame-duck status that Democrats had been hoping to assign him............
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