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Libby indictment adds to White House woes
(AP)
Updated: 2005-10-29 19:41
WASHINGTON - These are dark days for the White House. And they could get
darker. Less than a year after winning re-election by a comfortable margin,
President Bush's approval ratings are at the lowest since he took office in 2001
and he is being whipsawed this week by events, some of his own making.
A stormy, autumn sky veils the White House
this week, some of the most turbulent days of the Bush presidency, in
Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2005.
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_The U.S. death toll in Iraq hit 2,000 on Tuesday, a fresh reminder of
the president's push to war over weapons of mass destruction that were never
found.
_A special prosecutor took aim at White House officials in an investigation
into the leak of a CIA agent's identity, a disclosure that may have been part of
a campaign to discredit an Iraq war critic. The vice president's chief of staff
was indicted on five felony counts Friday, although top aide Karl Rove escaped
charges for now.
_An insurrection of the president's conservative political base forced the
withdrawal of Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers on Thursday.
_Consumer confidence dropped, home sales were down and the number of people
who lost their jobs because of Hurricane Katrina climbed above the half-million
mark.
"There are times when no matter what you do it seems to
blow up in your face, whether it's self-inflicted or inflicted from the
outside," said Democratic consultant Joe Lockhart, who was President Clinton's
press secretary during the impeachment flap.
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