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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Dale Baker who wrote (7896)12/22/2005 9:18:02 AM
From: Dale Baker  Read Replies (1) of 542436
 
Excerpt from Jim Hoagland today:

"Bush is unintentionally driving together a centrist group of responsible Republican and Democratic critics in Congress to pressure him -- to check and balance him, if you will -- on war policy, civil liberties, torture and other contentious issues.

Facing a veto-proof vote in Congress, Bush was forced to reach out to John McCain on banning torture. The president has begun to echo indirectly in his speeches and in his Iraq policy the thoughts of John Warner and Joe Biden. He has had to take into account, however reluctantly, Richard Lugar's concerns about the arrogance of power and its consequences abroad. None of this has harmed Bush or national security.

The president now must find common ground with Arlen Specter, Jane Harman and others to prevent the domestic surveillance controversy from undermining his attempt to pivot to a new agenda for the remainder of his presidency.

The kind of secrecy and obsessive concern about the powers of the presidency for their own sake that this administration showed even before Sept. 11, 2001, are inconsistent with the workings of American democracy, as well as with the fragmentation of power that marks the nation-state system today.

Bush has acted for five years as if he was not strong enough to compromise with or reach out to critics. But the generally positive response to Sunday's speech suggests that when Bush shows he is listening to them, others can hear him much better."
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