As financial chaos engulfs the final days of the Bush/Cheney administration it is difficult to remember that this team was once seen as not only uniquely ideologically-driven, but also exceptionally powerful. Somehow they had overridden electoral mishaps, legal objections, administrational scandal and the distain of much of the world to bring about major acts of policy: tax cuts for the rich, withdrawal from various global agreements and, of course, the war in Iraq.
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