… Has there been an English Jew running the Tory party. Here’s a useful – if a little fawning – primer on the almost inevitable new leader: Michael Howard.
THE BUSH BOOM? Here’s liberal economic writer Daniel Gross on the prospect of a serious economic boom under president Bush:
The Bush boom may or may not be a reality. I’d settle for several quarters of consistent growth, with job creation and GDP expansion at rates remotely close to those of the ’90s. But that doesn’t make for a particularly sexy book title, or for a compelling re-election slogan.
I’ll take that any day. So would any incumbent president, already at 55 percent approval rating. This is bad, bad news for the Democrats. But the really bad news is that their main policy right now is hoping for bad news.
The Dish 