WASHINGTON - In the latest sign of the deepening split among
conservatives over how far to go in challenging President Bush, Bruce
Bartlett, a Republican commentator who has been increasingly critical
of the White House, was dismissed on Monday as a senior fellow at the
National Center for Policy Analysis, a conservative research group
based in Dallas.

In a statement, the organization said the decision was made after Mr.
Bartlett supplied its president, John C. Goodman, with the manuscript
of his forthcoming book, "The Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted
America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy."

Mr. Bartlett, who was a domestic policy aide at the White House in the
Reagan administration and a deputy assistant Treasury secretary under
the first President Bush, confirmed that he had been dismissed after
10 years with the center...

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