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...tension of the election is succeeded by the tedium of cabinet appointments, it is time to focus on the more important ramifications of the result. No, not that messy missile-defense stuff or whether George W. Bush is going to get along with Alan Greenspan. I?m referring, rather, to the matter of style. What changes in the way we dress and have fun are in the offing as Dubya loads up U-Haul One in preparation for his Washington Adventure...
President-elect George W. Bush is saving the tough work for later in the week - Wednesday, he nominated an array of moderate Republicans to a series of relatively noncontroversial Cabinet posts. This trend of soft-sells, however, is unlikely to hold - more-controversial nominees are expected Thursday and Friday...
Duberstein spoke of the need for bipartisan gestures. The Democrats, he said, should ensure "early and prompt" confirmation of Republican cabinet. That "would put pressure on Trent Lott" to reciprocate...
...team and setting a tone. The Governor's mansion was decked with holly, and in public Bush sounded increasingly gracious. He felt Gore's pain, he said; he unveiled a transition slogan--"Bringing America Together"; his team took care to drop names of Democrats he might name to a Cabinet, what programs had the best chance of passage through bipartisan seas...
...frightened of, the Gore camp challenged--that a full recount would reveal what we have argued all along? That Gore won not only the national popular vote but the Florida vote as well? That Jeb Bush is not a controlling legal authority after all? That all those Cabinet tryouts were a little premature? What we are frightened of, the Republicans countered, is a system in which deadlines come and go at the whim of a partisan court, in which fallible vote counters are asked to read minds, in which statutes and procedures and timetables and traditions for electing a President...