The paradox explained.(THE LAST WORD)

HOW CAN THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION BE SO DISCIPLINED and effective at politics and so undisciplined and ineffectual at governing? No White House in living memory has been as successful at squelching leaks and keeping cabinet members on message, reaching down into the bureaucracy to bend analyses in directions that support its goals, imposing its will on congressional leaders of the same party, and even making a political imprint on state legislatures. No recent president has been re-elected with controlling majorities in both chambers of Congress, or been as successful at ...