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...gospel that He Who Promises the Bigger Tax Cut Wins. His $483 billion plan was supposed to trump the cautious McCain, who talked more about paying down the debt than paying off the voters. But he hadn't bargained on pinch-fisted Yankees like the man at the Nashua Chamber of Commerce breakfast who stood up and punctured the theory. "I'm tired of all this tax-cut nonsense," the questioner told the Governor. "Can we stop it, please?" To which Bush replied, "I don't believe it's nonsense. I'm not gonna drop my plan. If the heat...
...from all sectors--conservatives, moderates, liberals. It was a win for the message." His chorus of well-prepped advisers agreed. "Message is still important," said McCain strategist Mike Murphy. "And the McCain message is clearly the message that Republican Party voters have embraced." In politics this kind of echo-chamber flackery is called being on message. And as McCain and his staff pointed their famous Straight Talk Express toward South Carolina, the message they were on was--well, their message. The message is their message. Or is it the other way around...
...Gore strode into the Republican Senate, commandeered the ivory gavel and broke a tie to require background checks on people who buy weapons at gun shows. It was, he declared, "a turning point for our country." You could almost see the ad in the can. But in that same chamber 14 years before, Gore cast some other pivotal votes--ones that made him a hero to the gun lobby and that could come back to haunt him. "We could have made Al Gore NRA Man of the Year--every single vote," says National Rifle Association honcho Wayne LaPierre...
Levin, who has in past years taught the course "Chamber Music," says that the course will begin in Sanders Theatre and may change locations depending on enrollment, which he anticipates will be high...
...This moment of phony bipartisan will not last. Senate Republicans immediately said they would scotch the amendment when they confer with House leadership to iron out the differences between this bill and an earlier debtor-default bill passed by the junior chamber. Add to that the threat of a White House veto - over concern that the bankruptcy provisions are too harsh and that the minimum wage increase should be phased in more quickly - and you can bet this bill will be taking several more twists and turns...