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- GRAPEVINE, Page 35Sununu Agonistes
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- By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Daniel S. Levy
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- Close advisers to George Bush are grousing ever louder about
- John Sununu's bullying style. They complain that the White
- House chief of staff is unable and unwilling to play the
- crucial "outside game" of congressional and public persuasion.
- What's worse, Sununu prevents Bush from hearing frank counsel
- from savvier advisers on domestic policy, which hampered the
- White House's ability to handle the budget crisis. The problem
- isn't access; Bush still sees many domestic advisers. But
- Sununu has most of them scared to disagree with him. One Sununu
- tool is aide Ed Rogers, who spends much of his time wielding
- a yellow highlighting pen, marking up articles critical of his
- boss and guessing the identities of the reporter's sources.
- Sununu then harasses the hapless suspects.
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