By mid-May, Bush said, if funding is not law, problems would grow "more acute, " and would include the curtailing of training for active duty forces.
They believe -- or hope -- that Bush may announce his support for narrowly defined and regulated research, and that his campaign statements do not necessarily preclude that.
Odum said leaks about U.S. intelligence over the past 10 to 15 years may have allowed people such as Osama bin Laden -- the Saudi multimillionaire and suspected terrorist who the Bush administration believes may be behind the attacks on Washington and New York -- to learn a great deal about how to evade it.
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There are also some signs that the big beneficiaries of the Bernanke-Obama-Bush economic policy may be losing some momentum.
Paradoxically, the ultra-cautious Mr Weinberger may be seen as the forerunner of Colin Powell, George Bush's first and oft-overwhelmed secretary of state, whereas Mr Shultz had more in common with Mr Rumsfeld, at least as far as the use of force was concerned.
Once Mr Gonzales is safely ensconced at the Justice Department, Mr Bush may nominate a more pro-life lawyer to the Supreme Court.
Even more troublesome to the incoming Bush Administration may be the Clinton-Gore effort to tie its successor's hands with respect to space policy.
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Such a transformation has its opponents, and Mr Bush may conclude that the hard-charging Mr Rumsfeld needs to be kept on board to see it through, no matter whom this upsets.
That may help him draw issue contrasts with the Bush-Cheney ticket, but only at the expense of his own personal image.
It is worth noting that this maladroit and shortsighted policy may have profound political costs to the Bush Administration -- even as they are incurring significant strategic costs to the nation.
Now he has something to show, and, considering Egypt's support for other American policy objectives in the region, such as Palestinian-Israeli rapprochement, the Bush administration may be willing to cut him some slack.
On two issues, Bush may have opened himself up to second- and third-day stories that could wind up doing him real damage.
Mr Bush may also be less tolerant of the anti-American gestures of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, though he would be wise not to be provoked by them.
Mr Bush said that the vice-president "may have crossed a serious line" during the Clinton-Gore re-election campaign in 1996, raising questions about whether Mr Gore can be trusted.
He and President George Bush may now find it difficult to obtain trade-promotion authority, formerly known as fast-track, from Congress: this enables the American team to work towards a deal and put it to Congress on a take-it-or-leave-it basis, rather than enabling the legislators on Capitol Hill to unpick it line-by-line.
With Mr Gonzales out of the running, Mr Bush may have opened the way for a more pro-life nominee.
W. Bush here as well -- that a sour economy may wind up with this President having one term as well?
Papa's Antigua may have little that is permanent, save, perhaps, the widdy-widdy bush.
They and their descendants may well be the future high earners upon whom the burden of the Bush-Obama deficits fall.
Bush himself is quite thin-skinned, and so his handlers may not want him to be looking through it.
Chavez has won local and international support by attacking Bush and now with President-elect, Barack Obama, he may lose the ability to galvanize people so successfully.
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First, Mr Bush's second-term agenda is so ambitious that Democratic support may be a political necessity.
In the run-up to the 2004 presidential elections, this issue may yet become thorny for Mr Bush.
Bush said at a historic news conference in May in the White House briefing room -- the first ever by a first lady.
Once Mr Bush has more of his new team in place, other foreign-policy differences may start to seem more apparent than real.
In the meantime, the threat of possible criminal charges hanging over Mr Sharon may make Mr Bush wary of giving his open backing to the Israeli prime minister over the Gaza pull-out plan.
But this may not matter, says Patrick Ruffini, who worked on George Bush's 2004 run and is co-founder of The Next Right, an online hub for centre-right activism.
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That date in history may also be recalled as the beginning of a fundamental - and enormously consequential - sea change in the way the Bush administration thinks about, and performs, missile defense.
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Trent Lott and Pat Robertson may never relent, but most Republicans supported Mr Bush only because he looked like a winner, and they may soon uncover a secret love for campaign-finance reform if Mr McCain can capture that mantle.
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