Despite the public endorsement, Sununu’s future in the administration is bleak at best. In conversations last week with Bush’s son George–on conducted at the president’s request–most of Bush’s top political advisers recommended that Sununu be ousted. And, according to an administration official, Sununu called a key member of the cabinet to ask him to “put in a good word for him” with Bush. The member–long at odds with Sununu–saw the call as an “act of desperation.”
