from WaPo's SLATE's news summary:
The [Washinton] Post fronts an analysis looking at how a Democratic
[Party] victory in the midterm congressional elections would affect
Bush's governance. It seems that his only option would be to adopt the
sort of bipartisanship he promised before being elected in 2000, and
that Arnold Schwarzenegger has successfully used in California.

Bush's wishful-thinking model of policy-planning appears not to be
exclusive to the Iraq war, according to the Post, which buries this
detail deep down in the story: "Bush has been preparing his
post-election agenda in a series of meetings, sitting down one-on-one
with nine members of his Cabinet in the past month to review ideas.
Bush insists that the sessions not consider a victory by Democrats,
participants said."

On the op-ed page, the Post's Harold Meyerson offers a look at what
the Democrats themselves might do if they win the House, including
"raising the minimum wage, repealing the Medicare legislation that
forbids the government from negotiating with drug companies for lower
prices, replenishing student loan programs, funding stem cell research
and implementing those recommendations of the Sept. 11 commission that
have thus far languished."<

--
Jim Devine / "To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only
an international crime; it is the supreme international crime
differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself
the accumulated evil of the whole." -- Nuremberg Tribunal

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