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Picking Your Battles

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When you're stuck down at 30% approval and down to your last 18 months in office, an administration really has to pick and choose its battles. Only real matters of principle are worth a fight. And the Bush administration has found one -- resisting "state efforts to expand":http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/20/washington/21cnd-health.html?hp=&pagewanted=print the Children's Health Insurance Program to more middle income families.

Christopher Hayes is the Washington, D.C. Editor of The Nation.

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