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Robert Novak on a president alone.

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“With nearly two years remaining in his presidency, George W. Bush is alone. In half a century, I have not seen a president so isolated from his own party in Congress — not Jimmy Carter, not even Richard Nixon as he faced impeachment.” — Robert Novak, who says that the word most often used by Republicans to describe the Justice Department under Alberto Gonzales is “incompetent.”

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Tim Grieve is a senior writer and the author of Salon's War Room blog.

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