Bush’s inner circle is now populated entirely by the kinds of Washington pragmatists and insiders whom the incoming president had seemed to dismiss openly.
None of this new generation of aides knows Mr. Bush half as well as did Mr. Rove and the many other Texans who have left over the last couple of years, which leaves Mr. Bush without his comfortable cocoon of familiarity.
But the newcomers know their way around Washington and the halls of Congress, important skills for a presidential homestretch in which Mr. Bush, outnumbered in Congress and unpopular in the polls, is expected mostly to play defense.
Mr. Rove’s announcement that “now is the time” to return to his family is being heard within the White House and beyond as a tacit acknowledgment that time has run out for the kinds of broad initiatives that he tried, and failed, to put in place in Mr. Bush’s second term, including sweeping
None of this new generation of aides knows Mr. Bush half as well as did Mr. Rove and the many other Texans who have left over the last couple of years, which leaves Mr. Bush without his comfortable cocoon of familiarity.
But the newcomers know their way around Washington and the halls of Congress, important skills for a presidential homestretch in which Mr. Bush, outnumbered in Congress and unpopular in the polls, is expected mostly to play defense.
Mr. Rove’s announcement that “now is the time” to return to his family is being heard within the White House and beyond as a tacit acknowledgment that time has run out for the kinds of broad initiatives that he tried, and failed, to put in place in Mr. Bush’s second term, including sweeping
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