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...Tuesday, it was centrist John Breaux, and he doesn't sound like he's alone. "If it was up for a vote in its current form, I would vote against it," he told reporters. "Many of us have concluded that it creates a very unlevel playing field between the two parties and I don't think that's what we should...
...also fun watching audience members use their prominence to send not-so-subtle messages. Our own Senator John Kerry, 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...
...repetitive stress. Republicans voted en masse to revoke the regulations, which they argued created undue burdens, primarily financial, for businesses. After exhaustive lobbying by Majority Whip (and repeal effort sponsor) Don Nickles, the GOP bloc was padded by votes from six moderate Democrats, including high-profile consensus builders John Breaux and Mary Landrieu, both of Louisiana...
...state Democrats on whose welcome mat Bush has been wiping his feet ever since his speech to Congress last Tuesday. Last week, Bush looked in on constituents of Blanche Lincoln (Arkansas) and Baucus (Montana); next week, he'll hold events on the home turf of John Breaux (Louisiana), Kent Conrad (North Dakota) and even Tom Daschle (South Dakota...
...black Democratic mayor of Philly and the black-Hispanic couple (twofer!) of West Chester, Pa. (Why all the fawning over the Keystone State?) He saluted the ailing Democratic congressman Joe Moakley. He quoted JFK and threw a bouquet to self-styled deal maker, Louisiana senator John Breaux. By comparison, poor Dick Gephardt and Tom Daschle seemed niggling and churlish in their Democratic response. Although you have to feel sorry for them: the faux library of a House office is no match for the live action drama from the chamber floor. It was all there: the dramedy of Sen. Hillary Rodham...