Bush's Other Brain

George W. Bush's long-time advisor Karen Hughes hits the book circuit promoting her new autobiography Ten Minutes From Normal. While she's plugging her book, she's also plugging the president's re-election. The New York Times writes, "Ms. Hughes is the smiling, media-savvy White House representative whose book now wraps her -- and, by implication, the president -- in the heroism of motherhood. Its theme is clear by the identifying lines under her name on the book's front jacket: 'Counselor to the President. Wife and Mother. The woman who left the White House to put family first, and moved back home to Texas.'" Hughes, however, won't be spending too much time in Texas once she steps full-time into her role as senior advisor to Bush's re-election campaign. She's already spreading "the message about Mr. Bush in her speeches around the country, for which she receives $50,000 each." Laura Flanders writes in her new book "Bushwomen," that Hughes is "a career woman, GOP leader and stay-out-of-the-home mom," who spent years massaging Bush's "compassionate conservative" message. Marvin Olasky who is credited with authoring the catch phrase, is hardly a friend to career women. According to Flanders, he's "a man who believes in his heart that success like [Hughes'] shames society."