Bruce Buchanan Quotes

You nail down Texas and you have a growth engine for your political party. - Bruce Buchanan

What you have is someone with a fundamental distrust of government rolling the dice, cutting taxes and programs, and having it come back to bite him. It shines a spotlight on the fact that many of his budget decisions, in hindsight, look like mistakes. - Bruce Buchanan

What makes this different from past mistakes is that there are some very long-term consequences here: higher energy costs, and the dislocation of thousands of people for months to come, and the rebuilding of a city. None of that will come cheap, and can't be done without a robust federal presence. - Bruce Buchanan

Well, he is more careful, more cautious. He's protecting a lead. He's very sensitive to the fact that any misstep is going to be magnified a thousand fold. - Bruce Buchanan

Today's events put him in a position of having to defend the ethical status of [the Bush] administration, to the extent that he is implicated in the activities of Rove and Libby, ... It raises questions [about] the man who said he would bring an ethical tone back to Washington. - Bruce Buchanan

This goes right to the core of his strength and right to the core of the thing that has enabled him to stay plausible despite the political partisan divide in the country. Now he's in damage control big time. - Bruce Buchanan

There's a financial advantage for every Republican (running for statewide office) at this point. It's hard to imagine another scenario unless there is some type of Democratic tsunami in the fall. - Bruce Buchanan

There is a tendency for current news to supplant old news, but the hit he took on Katrina, coupled with the hits he's taken on other areas -- the war, Social Security -- is a heavy load for this current hurricane to lift, even if he does really well. - Bruce Buchanan

Their biggest problem is developing some bipartisan way to deal with Iraq. They're still alternating between bipartisan rhetoric and impugning the patriotism of those who disagree with Bush. The daily bad news from Iraq doesn't help. - Bruce Buchanan

The reason that trust is so important has to do with the long-standing belief that you could trust him, even if you don't always agree with him and don't understand what he's doing. The honesty dip is partly caused by a loss of faith in his credibility on Iraq. - Bruce Buchanan

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