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...outgoing President's younger brother, warned the GOP against becoming "Democrat lite. We can't just 'get along.'" Despite his disdain for Washington, the Senate would at least "give Jeb a bully pulpit," says a friend. That could help him keep his party from falling too far into the centrist, bipartisan hands of new Republican leaders like his successor, Florida Governor Charlie Crist, who last month hosted a GOP governors conference in Bush's home city of Miami, where that more pragmatic politics was trumpeted. Even if Bush doesn't run, "considering it" at least sends the signal that after...
...star Marine general. It's that Jones is a longtime friend of Senator John McCain, the man Obama defeated to win the White House. While many prior Democratic national security advisers - think Anthony Lake under Clinton - have been academics or policy wonks, Obama's choice of Jones highlights his centrist tendency and his willingness to confound his party. It will be Jones' job to serve as a foreign-policy broker for the President, funneling to Obama his assessment of how to best reconcile the conflicting views of the State Department, Pentagon, and other elements of the U.S. government's international...
...France's now-defunct 35 hour work-week, becomes the first female leader in PS history. Her objective in that post: constructing a Socialist platform rooted in more traditionally leftist policies to win back voters who flocked to Green and Communist parties after years of the PS's centrist drift. She then hopes to build a coalition of all leftist parties to finally mount a challenge to nearly a decade of unbroken national dominance by conservatives...
...campaigned as a centrist, but there are many who suspect you'll lurch to the right having won power. What would you say to that and to suggestions that New Zealand's comprehensive welfare system will be pared back on your watch? Well, I wouldn't agree with that. New Zealanders have quite high expectations of their government. There's very limited appetite for dramatic change in the volume of services provided by the state, though there's quite a strong desire to see a change in the quality of services. Long term, if we drift...
Congress returns to Washington this week for a five-day lame-duck session, and Republicans and Democrats are gearing up for the first skirmishes in what promises to be a war to remake the U.S. economy. Fights are breaking out within the parties too. Liberal and centrist Democrats are arguing over how fast to push their agenda. Republicans in the Bush Administration and Congress are split over whether to continue deep intervention in the markets. (Read "10 Things to Do with Your Money Right...