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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Dale Baker who wrote (39383)7/10/2007 2:19:52 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (2) of 541735
 
It's remarkable how much contempt the Bush White House had for Congress even when it was run by their own party.

I keep thinking that will come back to haunt them. And it might well be doing so in the form of the various Senators now moving away from them on Iraq. But the counter argument there is just how long they've stayed with the WH in the face of overwhelming evidence it was political suicide.

Very strange. One of the several things I'm getting from Shrum's book is the importance of personal relationships in the political world. Shrum is, of course, not the first nor the last to show that. But his stories make the point so well. And it brings me back to this quandry. Which is the opposite. The Bush administration did not come into power as a creature of the congressional Rep Party; nor have they governed on the basis of friendships. To any degree.

It's also clearly a way, in its ruthlessness, the Bush WH is categorically different from Lyndon Johnson's. His, as we know, was all about personal relationships.
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