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For Bush, next moves are key to rest of term
Katrina, court vacancy new challenges to president already on defensive

ANALYSIS
By Dan Balz
Updated: 4:34 a.m. ET Sept. 5, 2005

WASHINGTON - The first week of September 2005 likely will be remembered as one of the most troubled weeks of George W. Bush's presidency, a time in which natural disaster combined with bureaucratic bungling in ways that threatened to inundate an administration already on the defensive. Even before Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast last Monday, Bush was buffeted by public dissatisfaction over the war in Iraq and consumer outrage over rising gasoline prices. But the federal government's widely criticized response to the hurricane's devastation in New Orleans and elsewhere turned a challenging environment into one that is potentially overwhelming............