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...this is to have a more thoughtful debate in the context of a budget," a spokesman for Sen. Max Baucus of Montana said Monday. Translation: No tax cut will hit the Senate floor until at least April, when the 2002 budget as a whole arrives from across the Capitol. And even then it's going to get a good going-over...
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...Baucus said, "We're into the governing stage now," says Baucus. "We're out of the campaign stage. We're going to be looking for specifics, not generalities." Democrats believe that when Bush has to present the specifics of his plan for governing the country next week, he will be more vulnerable to attack. The honeymoon will be over...
...Baucus, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, said today that "there's a sense that his fixating on not one penny more and not one penny less than $1.6 trillion is beginning to cause a problem...
...Absolutely. Bush also can't get away any longer with just talking about spending and tax cuts in generalities. Baucus all this week and last has been borrowing from the "Jerry McGuire" film and chiding Bush to "show us the budget." Bush succeeded in his charm offensive with Democrats during his first three weeks in the White House. But the meetings were devoid mostly of specifics and their value couldn't last forever...