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...parliamentary elections. Led by Vladimir Voronin, the Communists won nearly 51% of the vote and will command a majority in the legislature. Voronin lost no time in signaling that he would strengthen ties with Russia. The Communist triumph was a bitter setback for Prime Minister Dumitru Braghis, whose centrist coalition won only 13.5% of the vote...
...Democrats, attempting to send a message of courage to their Senate brethren, did everything they could to fight back. Centrist "Blue Dog" Democrats clogged up the process as best they could with procedural snags, protesting that all they wanted was to look at the budget as a whole. Liberals sounded the usual alarms about "the failed policies of the past" and offered an alternative version, which went down in a lightly attended vote in the late afternoon. And afterward, they complained that they'd been ignored...
...Maybe a centrist is a politician who knows his weaknesses...
...Even as the House prepared Thursday to bestow a party-line passage on George W. Bush's $900-odd billion marginal rate reductions, a major pocket of bipartisan opposition to the President's overall tax-cut plan reared its head in the Senate. A centrist clutch of five Republicans and six Democrats banded together Wednesday and demanded a trigger - a legislative clause that would halt tax cuts if the government ran out of surpluses - as the first condition of their support...
...enhances their job security." Democrats sense this as well, so they're fortifying their attacks with a tax cut of their own. They'll dump the "targeted" tax cuts Gore pushed during the campaign, which "were a mistake," says California representative Ellen Tauscher, new vice chair of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council. "It looked like Big Government picking winners and losers." Instead, the Democrats will offer across-the-board cuts - but no more than $900 billion of them - with the cuts weighted toward lower-income taxpayers. To sweeten the deal, Daschle and Gephardt may also propose trimming payroll taxes...