"Taken together, all of this paints the picture, for me at least, not of a passionate liberal who sees himself as patiently operating within the system and through the democratic process to advance a particular set of strongly held beliefs, but a crusading ideologue whose conviction about his own rightness on the issues leads him to believe the law does not apply to him," Mr. McConnell said.
Democrats countered that it was Mr. Bush and the Republicans who were using the appointments process to advance a political agenda.
The demand for additional evidence suggests that a broader package of evidence is needed for the policy process to advance.
For the first time in a decade, the GOP had the White House, Congress and complete control of the legislative process to advance its agenda.
America has allowed this self-defeating process to advance to near irreversibility.
The US, in conjunction with France and the EU, should develop the mechanism that would establish a process of reconciliation to advance the prospect of peace, and to that end create a commission of reconciliation.
How do we think about how we are going to operate three to five years from now, and how do we identify those business capabilities and ensure that we are making the right investments across the company from a technology-people-process perspective to advance the company?
But the learning process seems to advance each day.
After the acute inflammatory response, the healing process starts to advance to the proliferation phase.
As widely respected analyst James Petras concludes, the fact is that "Chavismo has consolidated its support and is in a position to advance the process of transformation".
When Mr. Sharon visited the White House on Tuesday, Mr. Bush said he was pleased with the "progress" in reducing violence since an American-brokered cease-fire went into effect 16 days ago, and that these gains would give Secretary Powell a chance to "advance the peace process" as he traveled in the region this week.
