Nothing he has done throughout his presidency has drawn more fire from conservatives.

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I think the overwhelming likelihood is that in the next Congress, you'll see even smaller majorities than we have now. And we weren't really able to get anything done in the last few years.

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One of the clearest tests of leadership for a president is to, on occasion, go against his party. No one wants to do it.

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So he's got an environment in which you don't really have a bonfire burning, a grassroots demand for tax cuts, ... He's going to have to go out and make that case because otherwise Democrats are going to be able to go out and say, 'Look, this will endanger programs that you care about.'

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They believe that they can make him the symbol of what Democrats, in particular, and perhaps swing voters don't like about the Bush administration, ... Whether it's the questions about the intelligence before the war, the relationship with Halliburton -- in a whole series of ways, I think they do see Dick Cheney as a target.

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I've never seen anything quite like this.

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You have two things going on right now. You have doubts about the course that President Bush has set in Iraq, and you have what seems to be even larger doubts about whether John Kerry can do better.

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Here is a case where on this core issue where he is instead polarizing again and widening.

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