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...Capitol Hill with supportive phone calls and letters. But a week after Bush's visit to Nebraska, aides to Democratic Senator Ben Nelson say, the response to Bush was unremarkable--far fewer calls and e-mails, in fact, than the office got in January during the battle over John Ashcroft's Attorney General nomination. Daschle greeted Bush's arrival Thursday in South Dakota, Daschle's home state, with ads thanking him for the visit and urging him to work with Democrats for "real tax relief that's responsible and fair for everyone." And Daschle taunted Bush for refusing to debate...
...attorney for the Southern District of New York, the first woman to hold what is widely considered the nation's most prestigious post for prosecutors. Eight years later, after months of grandstanding at congressional hearings and scattered inquiries into Clinton's last-minute pardon spree, Attorney General John Ashcroft has given White the green light to investigate any of the 177 eleventh-hour pardons and commutations. The Justice Department characterized Ashcroft's decision, which could involve cases lying outside White's jurisdiction, as a "routine effort to consolidate cases...
...presidency, the moment when the new guy started filling his suit. The performance was, well, Clintonian in its easy embrace of the other party's ideas--more funding for education and health research, protection for national parks, even an end to racial profiling--headed up by John Ashcroft, no less...
...better to deliver that message--and harder to pin a label on--than a man who preached at the National Prayer Breakfast and voted against John Ashcroft the very same day? Edwards even has an everyman story on his side. The son of a millworker, he married his law-school sweetheart and drives his small children to the Senate day-care center--the first Senator in the staff's memory to put his children in the facility along with those of Senate employees...
...clearly yearning to snatch any jobs in the Bush administration for token Democrats from current forerunners Zell Miller and John Breaux, not only applauded when other Democrats sat on their hands, but even gave several standing ovations. Across the aisle, Bush's cabinet tried to soften its image. John Ashcroft and Christine Todd Whitman applauded the end of racial profiling as if he hadn't spoken at Bob Jones University and she hadn't posed for pictures while smiling and frisking a black man. From the podium, Bush too sent messages. His attempts at bipartisanship included announcing new funds...