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...Pride and Marine Drilling merged into the third largest off-shore drilling firm in the world. The new company has to be asking itself into which kind of environment is it entering? Supply-side energy policy won't run into much trouble with the pragmatist Democrats with oil-drenched Breaux at their head, or even the Gephardt crowd, because it's good for labor. But surely it'd rather have George W. Bush and Trent Lott setting the pace...
...Bush will still have some power on the executive end, and Breaux and the centrists will still call the shots in the Senate. But Daschle will be calling the tune. The biggest shift is really a political one, a stature issue that's bigger than Jeffords. There are a lot of moderate Americans who took a chance on Bush being a different kind of conservative, and are getting concerned. The way Jeffords tells it, Bush disappointed him. Will the Vermonter bring anyone with him? And will Bush suddenly go from a 52-point president back down...
...JOHN BREAUX Louisiana Sen. muscles four fellow Dems to vote for Dubya's budget, making him G.O.P...
...Just a pinch of bipartisanship: Republicans in the House squeaked by on Wednesday with a near party-line 221-207 passage Wednesday afternoon; the Senate followed up midday Thursday with a 53-47 margin, losing two of their own and picking five of the Breaux bunch from across the aisle...
...little centrist gloating (which sounds a lot like the White House gloating): "Is it a perfect document?" asked John Breaux. "Of course not. But does it advance the cause of government in a democracy that is almost evenly divided between the two parties? I think the answer is yes, it does...