Novak: I've never seen a president so isolated from his own party

wakeme2008

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Mon Mar-26-07 12:26 PM
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Novak: I've never seen a president so isolated from his own party

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Novak_I_have_never_seen_president_0326.html

Novak: I've never seen a president so isolated from his own party
03/26/2007 @ 12:23 pm
Filed by Mike Sheehan

President Bush is an increasingly lonely figure as his presidency wanes, conservative commentator and columnist Robert Novak says.

"With nearly two years remaining in his presidency, George W. Bush is alone," writes Novak in The Washington Post. "In half a century, I have not seen a president so isolated from his own party in Congress -- not Jimmy Carter, not even Richard Nixon as he faced impeachment."

..more at link...

Funny Clinton name is not brought up... I wonder why Novak would not bring it up.. :shrug:

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Lerkfish

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Mon Mar-26-07 12:31 PM
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1. in my recollection, Carter was not isolated by his own party.

I"m wondering what Novak is referring to, there.

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Tom Rinaldo

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Mon Mar-26-07 12:38 PM
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2. Kennedy challanged Carter in 1980

Carter had problems with a lot of Democrats in Congress who he never quite played ball with the way they wanted him to. Kennedy came close to keeping Carter, a sitting Democratic President, from being renominated.

But Bush is way more isolated than Carter ever was.

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flaminbats

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Mon Mar-26-07 01:18 PM
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3. why are Democrats so afraid to take Bush on?

refusing to renew Bush's taxcuts, not providing additional money for the war in Iraq, and holding impeachment hearings! Where would the Republican voters go next?

not one person has told me how doing those things would hurt our party in 2008! But I can think of plenty of reasons it would help us in the next election.

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