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Jun 28 2007 12:00am EDT

What Are They Thinking?

The White House and Congress are heading towards a constitutional showdown about those subpoenas over the fired U.S. Attorneys.

Can the White House afford to go down this road with a crippled attorney general, Nixonesque popularity and Republican defections from its Iraq policy?

Now, comes word that the immigration bill--the central domestic policy effort of the administration--is dead.

(Oh, the administration's last central effort, Social Security reform, went down too.)

by Matt Cooper

Matt Cooper's full Capital blog post is here.

Laura Rich is a co-founder of Recessionwire, which provides news, advice, perspective and humor about the recession and the recovery.

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