Krauthammer says Bush has no fear because he does not have a vice president who is going to be his heir, so he can spend his political capital freely. He doesn't have to do things in order to set up his vice president to be president. He says, "There's an unusual feature to the second Bush administration's extraordinarily important but has been almost entirely overlooked. For the first time in a half century, a two-term presidency will end without sending out its vice president to seek a mandate for succession at the next election. Vice President Cheney will not run for the presidency. Everybody knows it. When these eight years are over, the Bush-Cheney administration will simply close up shop. Nothing like that has happened since the 1950s.
We should all be so lucky.
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