President Bush faces second term blues

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By James Coomarasamy
BBC News, Washington


When President George Bush famously said on the day after his re-election that he had earned political capital and was now going to spend it, he was already succumbing to that classic second-term delusion of infallibility.

With approval ratings at their lowest level of the presidency - over the situation in Iraq and an unpopular domestic agenda - it may be that Mr Bush had earned less capital than he thought.

He has encountered unexpected cross-party resistance over some controversial nominations, such as John Bolton's for UN ambassador, in a Republican-held Congress unwilling to roll over.

"The Republicans in Congress privately are quite critical of the Bush White House for the way he's dealt with Congress," says Norm Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think-tank.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4628377.stm

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1. If it were only second-term...

prolapsed colon. About 12 feet of it.

[Gothmog]

2. Cry me a river

Boo Hoo for Bush's second term blues.