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...role as congressional observer, I watched congressmen and senators who once could barely stand to be in the same room suddenly working through thorny problems together. George W. Bush's political opponents suddenly voiced unabashed admiration for how he handled himself in meetings. Some examples of what I discovered in my reporting...
...role as congressional observer, I watched congressmen and senators who once could barely stand to be in the same room suddenly working through thorny problems together. George W. Bush's political opponents suddenly voiced unabashed admiration for how he handled himself in meetings. Some examples of what I discovered in my reporting...
...Tuesday, with the Pentagon still in flames, the congressional leadership, with a crowd of Senators and Congressmen behind them, stood on the Capitol steps. "When Americans suffer and when people perpetrate acts against this country, we as a Congress and as a government stand united, and stand together," said an angry Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the House, with Democrat Dick Gephardt standing stony silent beside him. Both parties "will stand shoulder to shoulder to fight this evil," Hastert promised. He asked everyone to bow their heads in a moment of silence. Afterward the Congressmen and Senators, Republicans hugging Democrats, broke...
...Tuesday, with the Pentagon still in flames, the congressional leadership, with a crowd of Senators and Congressmen behind them, stood on the Capitol steps. "When Americans suffer and when people perpetrate acts against this country, we as a Congress and as a government stand united, and stand together," said an angry Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the House, with Democrat Dick Gephardt standing stony silent beside him. Both parties "will stand shoulder to shoulder to fight this evil," Hastert promised. He asked everyone to bow their heads in a moment of silence. Afterward the Congressmen and Senators, Republicans hugging Democrats, broke...
...Unlike the congressmen, who are starting to sweat profusely about the 2002 midterms, stupid, George W. Bush can afford to be patient - recessions are generally two-year beasts at most. While he tries to walk the political line in the interim between feel-your-pain and scare-you-silly, Bush isn't ready to offer much more than photo-ops and the $300 tax rebates he's already sent out. For now, and until the quasi-recession turns real, that's all he can afford...