For 1st time, Bush forced back on heels

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Front page, Chicago Tribune (print):

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The pursuit of blame is often stoked in the partisan cloakrooms of the capital, then fanned by the media into a full-blown scandal.

There is a wrinkle this time, in that some experts in Washington folkways see a legitimate issue, not just the fodder of partisan pettiness.

Robert Bennett, one of the capital's most prominent defense lawyers and often one of the first to be called by a politician in trouble, said that "this is a very legitimate issue for the press to pursue and leave it to the public to determine how serious it is or is not.

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"Bush has some problems," said Andrew Kohut, director of the non-partisan Pew Research Center. "His numbers are softening. But it's not clear whether it's the credibility questions, the casualties, the economy or other issues. . . . He is being seen for the first time in his presidency as a president under fire. He's sort of on his back foot."

A lot of it is what we already know, but the significance is its front page placement. Drips turn to trickles turn to streams...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0307180313jul18,1,5514133.story?coll=chi-news-hed

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1. "Non-Partisan" Pew Research center?

Actually they're pretty darn republican if ya asked Me.

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2. This is a good line right at the top of the article which makes it even

better:

"There is a wrinkle this time, in that some experts in Washington folkways see a legitimate issue, not just the fodder of partisan pettiness."