>
>The Bush crowd seems to be doing a variation on The Treasure of Sierra
>Madre: "Mandate? We don't need no stinkin' mandate!" From today's Slate:
>
>"The Washington Post reports that 'President-elect Bush is defying
>predictions of a bipartisan government and instead is naming a Cabinet that
>is little different from one he would have chosen if he had won a
>resounding
>victory, Bush advisers said.' Bush 'has determined that the best way to
>establish his legitimacy despite his messy victory is to lead as if he had
>a
>mandate. So he is nominating thoroughbred conservatives to his Cabinet
>instead of appeasing Democrats with moderates, and is vowing to take his
>campaign platform to Capitol Hill undiluted even though his allies there
>are
>urging him to start with chewable bites.'"
>
>Carl
>
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