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...labor is ambitious to sink Chavez. Her past work as columnist gives them a supply of torpedoes. Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy knew what he was doing when he warned his boys, Never write anything down...
...paper trail of cracks against the pieties - against a higher minimum wage, against the concept of a woman-thwarting "glass ceiling" in business, against affirmative action, against bilingual education - is not going to make life easy for Chavez in confirmation hearings for her in-your-face appointment as secretary of labor...
...business about the illegal Guatemalan who lived in Chavez's house will not help. Perhaps Chavez is being set up as the designated sacrifice - the ritual victim whose rejection will be intended to warn the new Bush administration against more conservative Supreme Court appointments later in the game. The dogs Bork, the caravan moves...
...Chavez (admittedly a borderline case, never a full-time career columnist) is a different matter. She is, I would argue, a vivid warning to other columnists: Don't try to cross the line...
Some U.S. Senate Republicans are privately miffed at their leader, Trent Lott, because Democrats are chairing the opening rounds of hearings for George W. Bush's Cabinet nominees, particularly the ones next week for the two most controversial picks, John Ashcroft and Linda Chavez. Until Jan. 20, Democrats have a majority in the 50-50-split Senate because Al Gore still has his job as vice president of the nation and president of the Senate. Gore can cast tie-breaking votes; after Jan. 20, when Bush and Dick Cheney are sworn in, Cheney presides over the Senate, giving Republicans...