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...signs of the new order to appear. There was White House Counsel Alberto Gonzalez cooling his heels outside the Senate chamber until Democrat Patrick Leahy, now the presumptive chairman of the Judiciary Committee, could spare a moment to meet with him. There was the business lobbying group known as Arctic Power, quietly canceling a 10-state, $500,000 radio ad blitz designed to sell Memorial Day motorists on President Bush's plan to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. There were the two dozen tripods set up a full hour before Tom Daschle made...
...more than $2 a gallon, Bush predicted the country would need 1,300 new gas, coal or nuclear power stations over the next 20 years as well as more oil exploration. While the plan offered some conservation incentives, critics pointed to the Adminstration's proposed opening of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling as an assault on the environment and accused the President of using the new policy to reward former colleagues and supporters in the oil industry. Bush maintained that his proposals would "light the way to a brighter future," and tackle the countrywide energy shortages...
...report's most controversial recommendations have been widely known and discussed for months: drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and elsewhere; increase reliance on nuclear power; tie research money for renewable energy, such as wind and solar, to revenues from aforementioned drilling. The ANWR debate is expected to crumble under the weight of congressional environmentalists; the waste-related risks of nuclear power plants - compared with the global warming threat - may look like the lesser of two evils. Renewable energy, which now composes an eye-popping 2% of the nation's energy grid, needs a heck of a lot more...
...ultimate recommendations merely ratify a president's existing position. This was the chief bleat coming from Congressional Democrats Wednesday as George Bush announced his Social Security task force. "The panel members on this Social Security commission would be the equivalent of oil companies on a commission on ANWAR [the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge]," said Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle...
...blitz. Rove--the Man to See for G.O.P. favor seekers--was joined at the meeting by Mary Matalin, a top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, and Alex Castellanos, a Republican consultant who has been working with oil companies to help sell Bush's plan to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Castellanos feared that bad press about the environment was weakening resolve inside the Administration, and he was right. Armed with polls and videotapes, he tried to make the case that the policy could be a political winner, but he failed. Rove told him Bush wasn't exactly...