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...even if Washington does show signs of cooperation, one Beltway veteran pointed out to TIME.com, there will be sharp disagreements over what issues to tackle first. "When you look at what legislation is considered ripe for bipartisan compromise, the two parties are split: The Democrats talk about coming together on campaign finance reform and a patients' bill of rights, while the Republicans want to focus on abolishing the estate tax or a ban on partial birth abortion." All issues that have garnered significant bipartisan support in the past - but not exactly the legislative trifles one might expect an evenly split...
BACKGROUND: Inside the Beltway from birth. The son of George and Barbara Bush's pet Millie, Spot was born in the White House...
...talk shows, in the Beltway, in outer Republican circles, absolutely - its started already. But not in Austin. George W. Bush, in his pool-camera photo-op Monday after the Supreme Court non-ruling, stopped resolutely short of Dick Cheney's "I do think he should concede" statement on Sunday. And Bush, so slow to the microphone throughout the legal wrangling, won't be at all tempted to join Cheney on the hard line now. He can afford to be quiet...
...watch Clinton in front of the helicopter that Nixon made famous, talking serenely about democracy in a warm Beltway breeze, was to remember that the true greatness of an edge-of-one's-armchair election night was that it wasn't a crisis at all. The Wednesday morning sun did not rise on a Gore victory, as the vice president had envisioned aloud; nor did it rise on a Bush one. But rise it did, on quiet streets and expectant water coolers and "breaking news" touts that wouldn't go away...
...gathered this international press corps. The presence of the First Lady has not only attracted record-breaking campaign contributions from across the country, but it has also ratcheted up an unprecedented level of curiosity in a race that would normally be of interest to New Yorkers and a few Beltway types. And tonight both candidates have clear directives...