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...Bush has already fed the right wing with the antigay, antiabortion, anti-affirmative action John Ashcroft and with Gale Norton, who would open the South Lawn to drilling if she could. The chattering class on the right might howl for a while, but it's not going to abandon Bush unless he abandons tax cuts. And Ford isn't an apt comparison. Some thought, without evidence, that Ford had cut a deal with Nixon, and Nixon haters, with nothing but the bloodless Watergate hearings to feast on, felt they had not got all their licks...
There comes a time, though, when Jerry has to choose between his newfound identity as a happy family man and his older, more firmly established one as a cop who cannot abandon a case. It would be unfair to describe the jeopardy he embraces--except to say that he risks much and loses all as the result of his choice. It is not unfair to observe that for a man as rational and self-aware as he clearly is, the unhinging outcome is perhaps too much of a surprise to him and not entirely persuasive to us. That said...
...plumbing problem. Bypass the choke points with new grafts and you would more than likely bypass any future heart attacks. Over the past five to 10 years, however, doctors have come to realize that heart disease is more complicated than that. They're not by any means ready to abandon surgery, but now they rely more heavily on different types of drugs to treat both the long-term and short-term effects of heart disease...
...bill that concerned Pratt, the Violent and Repeat Juvenile Offender Act, proposed tougher penalties on criminal street-gang activities. It even had the backing of the National Rifle Association. But Pratt's far more militant GOA launched a letter-writing campaign demanding that Ashcroft and other senators abandon the measure...
...them are worried about how quickly and cleanly Bush cut his losses with Chavez, and they may want another nominee as insurance. What, they may be thinking, will happen when the Ashcroft nomination hits its first bump in the road and the confirmation runs into trouble? Will Bush just abandon ship...