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After gaining control of both Houses of Congress this week, the Republican Party now faces greater pressure to make progress on issues such as health care, tax reform and social security, domestic policy expert Stuart M. Butler told an Institute of Politics (IOP) discussion group last night...
...pressure is going to be that they are going to have to deliver,” said Butler, a fellow at the IOP and vice president of Domestic and Economic Policy at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C. “The American public is not forgiving...
...VACQUITTED. PAUL BURRELL, 44, former footman of Queen Elizabeth II who went on to become the butler and confidante of Princess Diana, of stealing more than 300 of the Princess' personal belongings; in London. Prosecutors dropped the case after the unusual intervention of the Queen and before Burrell was called to testify...
...trial of Paul Burrell filled the British press corps with gleeful anticipation. The former butler to Diana, Princess of Wales (pictured with Burrell in 1997), was accused of stealing hundreds of personal items, including clothing, letters and photos, from his employer, and there was the possibility that members of the royal family would be called to testify and perhaps even reveal intimate secrets. But it was not to be. Twelve days into the trial, Queen Elizabeth suddenly remembered a salient tidbit of information that dramatically, and conveniently, ended the proceedings. While prosecutors claimed Burrell had unlawfully secreted Diana's possessions...
...Right now, the Bush Administration might be a lot more comfortable with someone like Butler, whose actions were driven by a belief that Iraq was hiding weapons of mass destruction and that it was his job to get in Saddam's face and alert the international community to his non-compliance. One can only speculate on how Vice President Cheney, for example, might have greeted the news that the 72-year-old Swedish diplomat had subjected his inspectors to a program of "cultural sensitivity" training so as to avoid them unnecessarily offending the Iraqis. But Blix is unmoved...