Mr. Bush, for his part, took after Congress on a variety of fronts, accusing lawmakers of delaying not only the Mukasey confirmation vote, but also passage of an emergency spending measure to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and legislation that would make permanent the administration's domestic surveillance program.
The program's goal is the permanent establishment of a "culture of entrepreneurship" in education, research, and administration.
"This would give the administration permanent powers to violate civil liberties".
For example, if temporary tax cuts have spurred economic growth, why should they be made permanent, as the administration wants?
If public opinion goes sour, in these days of the permanent campaign, the administration may lose its will to persist in toughness.
Not compared with the Bush tax cuts: the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities estimates that if these cuts are made permanent, as the administration wants, they will cost $2.8 trillion over the next decade.
"You're either with us or against us" was the message that Washington was sending to the other permanent members, an administration official said today.
But despite the architectural signal that sends, she insisted from the beginning that her theater too exist as an idea rather than a building, a permanent space demanding administration.
If the original goal was three to four million permanent modifications, the administration is less than five percent there.
With recent climate change research, these initiatives have been some of the most permanent efforts the administration has made to preserve beaches and canyons.
