The Washington Times

Democrats have done a pretty effective job on the attack against George W. Bush over the past month. They have a decline in the president’s job-approval ratings to show for their labors. But then again, the president has not much been heard from since the pre-Christmas period, when Trent Lott’s slow fall dominated the political news. Tonight is really the night the emperor strikes back.

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The Washington Times

President Bush’s job-approval ratings have taken a dip since November, and this has mainly had the effect of cheering up two distinct but to a degree overlapping sets of people. First, there are the anti-Bush partisans as such, who have mainly interpreted the decline as a sign that Mr. Bush is not, after all, wrapped in a cloak of invincibility because of Americans’ concerns with national security. And second, there are the opponents of war in Iraq, who are inclined to see Mr. Bush’s falloff as an indication of increasing public opposition to his war plans.

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The Washington Times

It seems quite clear that by the end of this year, if not in fact by spring, the Bush administration is going to “own” the economy. When something based on the new tax legislation the president has proposed actually clears Congress, which I think is almost certain, the American economy’s success or failure in the future will have a presumed author, the president himself, whom voters will hold accountable accordingly.

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The Washington Times

How about this as the latest manifestation of the political legacy of Bill Clinton: a robust and growing field of aspirants for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2003?

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