It's a race against time over whether the Bush administration will be able to administer the act more sensibly so that people do not get so angry that the act will be overthrown by court or rewritten or substantially amended by Congress.

The big question is will the Bush administration be able to defuse this political opposition.

The Bush administration continues to do everything it can to get around the Endangered Species Act. They continue to turn their back on solid science and ignore the advice of local biologists, all the while pushing many plants and animals to the brink of extinction.

So it's seen as a test in many ways of the type of policy the Bush administration will adopt towards China,

There will still be trade disputes with the Bush administration, but it's unlikely these disputes will increase. The same goes for human rights.

By failing to require Detroit to make significantly cleaner, more efficient vehicles to compete with Toyota, the Bush administration is giving the Big Three enough rope to hang themselves.