Word: beltways
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After attendees are treated to a "wine, cheese and carbo-loading" reception, politicians and media from both parties will bid on a host of hot-ticket beltway items...
...Larry Summers, both Greenspan buddies, are tough acts to follow, and one hopes Bush ran his Treasury shortlist (currently headed by ALCOA chief Paul O'Neill) by the Fed chairman, because the relationship between the Bush administration and the Fed will be Topic A for Wall Street's Beltway-watchers. The bad news: The new treasury secretary's first job will be selling that very same...
...That was the question being traded by inside-the-Beltway types Thursday after USA Today reported that President Bush had decided not to eliminate two offices created by former president Bill Clinton: the Office of National AIDS Policy and the Office on the President's Initiative for One America (designed to promote positive race relations...
...Perhaps it doesn't much matter at this point who gets the fleeting leg up - outside the Beltway, few minds have been or will be changed by a purely academic debate over political one-upmanship. Voters who railed against Ashcroft's nomination will probably continue to feel betrayed by the new president and will rally behind 42 of 50 Senate Democrats. Those who supported Ashcroft's candidacy will feel vindicated, and stand behind his champions in the Senate...
...Instead, we're stuck making excuses to our co-workers, most of who have taken to giggling uncontrollably whenever the topic of our Beltway job search comes up. We were never serious, we say (especially to our bosses). We thought it would just be a lark, we say, and we laugh. But behind the laughter, we, for perhaps the first time, truly know pain...