Bush-baiting; America's new Congress.(George W. Bush)
Economist (US), The, January, 2007
The president is in for a difficult two years, but all is not yet lost
ON JANUARY 4th Nancy Pelosi becomes the first woman speaker of the House of Representatives, and the painful last phase of George Bush's presidency will begin. As control of both chambers of Congress passes to the recently elected Democrats, Mr Bush will become not just a lame duck but also a crippled one, able to act freely only in foreign and defence policy--which is where, thanks to his blunders in Iraq, his most intractable problems lie.
Ms Pelosi is preparing to torment the president with some subtlety. In her first 100 hours in the job, she aims to use her 31-seat majority in the House to pass a raft of measures which (assuming they make it through the Senate, where the...
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