WaPo Giving Helpful Advice to Bushies?

An interesting article today:

After three years of sweeping actions in both foreign and domestic affairs, the Bush administration is facing complaints from the conservative intelligentsia that it has lost its ability to produce fresh policies....

Whatever the cause, conservatives say the remedy to policy malaise won't come until the election. Conservative strategist Jeffrey Bell said the big items on the policy agenda — such as an overhaul of Social Security — are necessarily on hold as Bush fights for reelection. "He's having to defend the forward motion he's already had," Bell said. "Reagan in '84 was the same way. People who thought Reagan's creative period was going to end after '83 were wrong. I think Bush will be the same way."

I have sometimes wondered when media like WaPo would give advice to Republicans as well as to Democrats. Is this such an occasion? Or are they just trying to make Bush look weaker? I rather think the latter, since Dana Milbank is widely considered to be very anti-Bush.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Mon. 05/10/04 05:37:04 PM
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