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...absolutely essential that ... we make the right choice, because if we make the wrong choice then the danger is that we'll get hit again." DICK CHENEY, U.S. Vice President, campaigning in Iowa, implying that a vote for John Kerry would make another terrorist strike more likely...
...down history. His rivals on the Democratic ticket, he suggests, are bound to blink. "If they're going to change one day, they may change again," he tells a Las Vegas crowd. "I think you need somebody who's gonna do what he says he's gonna do." Dick Cheney's version: "Indecision kills...
That mood barely lasted another week. In November at a small breakfast that included the four top congressional leaders and Bush and Cheney, the President asked Daschle to move quickly on some controversial judicial nominees. Nothing doing, Daschle said. After the breakfast meeting broke up, Lott pulled Bush and Cheney aside and said, "That's the real Tom Daschle you just saw." Daschle felt he had also seen the real George Bush when the President insisted on pushing through another tax cut, with or without the Democrats on board. Soon Cheney went on TV denouncing Daschle and the Democrats...
...Bush wasn't fighting just the Democrats. At times he was fighting the entire Congress. Representative democracy is a messy business, and a CEO White House doesn't like a legislature of second-guessers and time wasters. Bush and Cheney shared a view that they had a mission to restore power to the presidency. They felt justified in bypassing Congress altogether on a variety of moves--making energy policy in secret, creating military tribunals by executive order, withholding budget information about the true cost of Medicare reform, resisting congressional investigations into intelligence failures and providing only the vaguest estimates...
GALLAGHER: In the short run, Bush is good for stocks, and, yes, Kerry is good for bonds--stocks because of the dividend-tax issue and bonds for a couple reasons. One is that Clinton's policies produced budget surpluses and Kerry sees things much the same way. Meanwhile, Dick Cheney is saying that deficits don't matter. Then you have the gridlock argument. The bond market would assume Kerry's spending initiatives would get frustrated. So you lower the deficit that way. And Bush does talk about Social Security reform. Under typical proposals, that would add about a hundred million...