This is a dispute that the Bush side is winning on a simple but effective strategy of decibels and repetition.
This is at a time when Bush has just taken a state-election dispute to the U.S. Supreme Court.
However, this is a legacy issue for Bush, and trade has been a key part of his economic agenda.
"This is a false choice, " Bush insisted.
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"This is really not a tribute to George W. Bush, " he said in an interview.
"This is a prescription for chaos and confusion, " Bush said, explaining his veto of the legislation.
This is a much more effective stimulus than extending the Bush tax cuts for higher-income earners without figuring out how to pay for it.
In this view, George Bush is the successor of a long line of rulers, from the Byzantine emperors, to the Holy Roman emperors to Queen Victoria, who have obstructed the divinely ordained and inevitable spread of Islam.
When I read this great book by Matthew Scully, who is a former Bush speechwriter.
But this is not to say that Bush walked away with a clear-cut victory.
President Bush and others have said that this is a small minority in an otherwise peaceful religion.
Bush is trying to argue that this is a dirty trick -- if not by the Gore campaign, at least by the Democrats.
This is what I hear when someone claims President Bush threw away a surplus of a few billion dollars.
This reflects an emerging truth about Mr Bush: he is proving a divisive president, unable to change the minds of a significant slice of his people.
And so perhaps this is part of the political legacy of the Bush years: a subtle shift in what makes you a progressive, and how liberal lines are drawn.
"Prevailing in this struggle is essential to our future as a nation, " Mr. Bush said.
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Are you saying that this is a commitment that, essentially, applies to President George W. Bush, and would not necessarily apply to the next president, depending on the next president's policy?
It's not over yet -- Mr. Bush is said to be making a decision this week -- but the basic thrust is as follows: The U.S. would agree to delay withdrawing from the Treaty in return for Russia allowing the U.S. to proceed with anti-missile tests the Treaty now bans.
Secondly, Bush asserted that Iraq is a vital front in this war.
For many, both in foreign capitals, among the media elite and in Bush-hostile political circles, this is widely regarded as a very good thing.
This is what President George Bush's special envoy, Jack Danforth, a former senator who was appointed on September 6th, will argue when he makes his inaugural visit in November.
From this low starting-point, however, Mr Bush is spearheading what could be a big rethink in American aid policy.
Granted, this is up slightly from the last year of the Bush administration, but only by a couple of percentage points on average.
This is what the Bush team was hoping for when they first introduced their appeal: A reprimand to the Florida Supreme Court and a reversal of the recount ruling.
This willingness to abandon principles in the blind desire to produce results is becoming a theme of the Bush presidency.
This may help to explain why the Bush administration is working with such great zeal to keep a focus on terrorism.
Mr Bush, through his spokesman, treads carefully on this point, since a now-discredited federal school reform is part of the legacy of George Bush junior.
This is a bitter irony since it was the Jackson-Vanik amendment -- abandoned by President Bush on 12 December 1990 -- which linked freedom to leave the Soviet Union to access to government-guaranteed credits.
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