It’s worth noting, by the way, that the CQ figure for how often a senator voted with President Bush is based on a study of just 22% of all Senate votes during the Bush presidency. The president is not a senator, after all, and does not express a position on most votes in the Senate, so it’s hard to say how much the figure really means.
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Yuval Levin is the director of social, cultural, and constitutional studies at the American Enterprise Institute and the editor of National Affairs. His most recent book is American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation -- and Could Again.
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