buried deep down in the story

is the fact that bush is not concerned about losing control of congress because he knows the republicans can win with diebold on the job.

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."

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