When a presidency has been turned around, particularly the modern presidency, there's often an outside element.

It's a strange thing for Bush to have slipped into, given the savvy you expected from this administration, with a vice president who spent over a decade on Capitol Hill. It seems as if his people would have seen that there was potential for trouble, and at least done their homework on the Hill.

Immigrant bashing is as American as mom's apple pie. The latest batch of anti-Hispanic bashing, the suggestions that they're indigestible — the same things were once said of the Germans, the Irish, Italians, almost every other group.

Immigrant bashing is as American as mom's apple pie. The latest batch of anti-Hispanic bashing, the suggestions that they're indigestible — the same things were once said of the Germans, the Irish, Italians, almost every other group.

They use the office's imagery.

At this point, one of the keys for the president's strategy, I suspect, is to look for an early success, and build on that.