Edgy W talks damage control to GOP big wigs - NYDN

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http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/351221p-299435c.html

WASHINGTON - President Bush hit the political panic button yesterday, calling a strategy session with top Republicans to salvage their shredded agenda.

A day after House Majority Leader Tom DeLay was indicted, and with Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq war hanging over him, Bush convened the summit with new House Majority Leader Roy Blunt, House Speaker Dennis Hastert, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and a few others.

"The Republican Congress is united," a defensive Bush spokesman Scott McClellan said earlier. "We are going to press ahead on important priorities."

But the leaders, who ordinarily speak to the press after such confabs, ducked out a White House side door...

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. One day reaction to indictment, four day reaction to flood deaths.