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In chiding Bush for not signing on to the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group, Stolberg, like her colleague Jim Rutenberg before her, wonders why Bush thinks he can get away with acting like he's president or something.

"In a sense, it is a predictable path for Mr. Bush. This, after all, is the same president who lost the popular vote in 2000, was installed in the White House by a 5-to-4 vote of the Supreme Court and then governed as if he had won by a landslide. And this is the same president who, after winning re-election in 2004, famously told reporters that he had 'earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it.'"

(Last Thursday, Rutenberg referred to Bush as " the man who all but ignored the disputed circumstances of his election in 2000, governed from then as if he had an expansive mandate…")