The New York Times: President Feels Emboldened, Not Accidental, After Victory

The New York Times: President Feels Emboldened, Not Accidental, After Victory

This article chills my blood, frankly. Bush was restrained in his first term? So what does this mean about the second? What will keep him from doing just about anything to get his agenda into stone?

Here's one interesting excerpt:

One adviser said that Mr. Bush was showing more confidence, and that it was not insignificant that he joked to reporters at his news conference that "now that I've got the will of the people at my back, I'm going to start enforcing a one-question rule."

In Mr. Bush's first term, "he had two insecurities," said the adviser, who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the topic.

"There were a large number of people who did not view him as a legitimate president, and there was the specter of his father's loss," the adviser said. "He didn't vocalize them, but those two things hung over him and all of his advisers."

If this feeling hung over him and his administration continually, what would keep them from doing anything to ensure that he would win? I'm starting to wonder....