Bottom line: The Bush Administration's current course is headed toward political disaster.

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Bottom line: Will Bush's numbers now shoot back up?

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But despite the errors, the bottom line is that Bush's bold gamble to recast the destructive politics of the Middle East will work, especially if Iraq's December national legislative elections go well, as is likely.

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Somewhat surprisingly, the pro-business reputations of Reagan and both Bush presidents ranked toward the bottom of the list.

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Indeed, under the Bush tax cuts, the bottom 40% of all income earners not only paid no federal income taxes, as a group on net.

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Despite efforts by the then-Bush administration Defense Secretary Robert Gates and his Foggy Bottom counterpart, Condoleezza Rice, to try to find some programmatic accommodation with the Russians, in the end President Bush stood firm.

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Such statements by senior figures in the Bush Administration seem to designed to telegraph the bottom-line of the Helsinki summit: Gorbachev expects to be paid -- and paid handsomely -- for his country's "cooperation" in the Gulf crisis.

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President Bush cut the Clinton era tax rates as well, with the bottom rate slashed by a third to 10%, and the top rate cut to 35%.

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