Word: congressmen
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Just a month ago, Republican congressmen and senators couldn't say enough good things about their president. But it doesn't take much to change their mood. They're now grumbling privately about W after last week's Senate passage of the patients bill of rights. George Bush managed to keep in place a well- coordinated media and legislative campaign to pass the tax cut and the bipartisan education bill. But then the White House seemed to go on vacation. "On the other stuff moving through the Congress" such as the patients bill of rights, energy measures, and key appropriations...
...announced Bush's energy plan last May, "he went underground," complains another top GOP aide, leaving Democrats an open field to paint it as pro-business and anti-environmental. Top House GOP leaders like Speaker Dennis Hastert and Majority Whip Tom DeLay felt marooned, along with West Coast Republican congressmen taking the brunt of public anger over energy shortages and rising gas pump prices...
...House GOP leadership aides report their phones are now jangling with calls from White House aides who want to get reacquainted. "All of a sudden, we're their best friends," says another senior GOP House staffer. "Their presence in my life has increased one-hundred-fold." Bush invited GOP congressmen over to the White House for chats on the patients' bill while his aides swarmed over the House side of Capitol Hill to schmooze. "There's been a wakeup call," says this senior House GOP aide. "The President is finding his new love for House Republicans...
...original idea was intended to combat the lingering public sentiment that Bush isn't experienced or serious enough for the job. But the effect has often been to make the President appear removed from the people--more concerned with touting his tax cut to Congressmen than projecting the regular-guy image voters responded to during the campaign. Hughes is brewing a remedy. Beginning this week, when Bush attends an inner-city block party in Philadelphia on July 4 --and continuing through meetings next week with families designed to show his concern for their health-care problems--Hughes will...
...remembered for the Living Wage Campaign's occupation of Massachusetts Hall and the selection of Lawrence H. Summers as the 27th president of Harvard University. In particular, the Progressive Student Labor Movement's (PSLM) sit-in drew national attention to campus, as daily rallies brought camera crews and Congressmen alike to Harvard Yard...