In CNN/USA Today poll, President Bush earns 68 percent approval rating . . . Bush on Iraq: “In fighting a war on terror, we are determined to oppose every source of catastrophic harm that threatens our country, our friends, and our allies. We are actively pursuing dangerous terror networks across the world. And we oppose a uniquely dangerous regime—a regime that has harbored terrorists and can supply terrorists with weapons of mass destruction; a regime that has built such terrible weapons and has used them to kill thousands; a brutal regime with a history of both reckless ambition and reckless miscalculation.” . . . Bush on 2004: “Should I decide to run, Vice President Cheney will be my running mate.” . . . Bush: “If there is a mandate in any election—at least in this one— it’s that people want something to get done.” . . . Bush embraces supply-side theory: “Make no mistake about it: The tax-relief package that we passed—that should be permanent, by the way—has helped the economy, and the deficit would have been bigger without the tax-relief package.” . . . “The Senate was designed by our forefathers to be very slow and difficult to move,” says Trent Lott. “And, boy, they succeeded.” . . . Democrats agree to permit the confirmation of two federal appeals-court nominees, Michael McConnell and Dennis W Shedd. . . Bush intends to renominate Miguel Estrada, Priscilla Owen, and Charles W. Pickering Sr. for judgeships.
On Election Day, Republicans took 51.6 percent of all votes cast, to 45 percent for the Democrats. . . party usually loses 350 seats in state legislatures during midterm elections, but GOP gained 200 this year. . . Two-thirds of new House members are pro-life, including 5 of 7 new women members. . . Of 34 Senate races, prolife candidates win 20. . . Clinton administration official Bruce Reed, in Washington Post: “Democrats routinely sell Bush short.” . . . Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.), on MSNBC: “We could see Bushes in the presidency well into the 21st century.”
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