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...Whatever the configuration of the next coalition, it's a relative certainty that Tuesday's election will return Sharon to power - and lead to a continuation of current policies. And of the current deadlock. Suicide bombers continue to strike inside Israel and gunmen attack settlements; Israeli troops maintain their occupation of the West Bank and raid Gaza's population centers. Sharon says he has a peace plan but says he's waiting for an end to Palestinian violence and the effective ouster of Yasser Arafat before it can be implemented; the Palestinians maintain that little can change in their political...
...army's man. "Democratic values have failed today," lamented Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi, the PPP's losing prime ministerial candidate, who claims his supporters were either threatened or offered top government jobs in return for crossing over. These legislators countered that they jumped over altruistically to break the deadlock on choosing a Prime Minister...
...Bush has stockpiled all the support he needs to go to war against Saddam Hussein. "You won't hear as much complaining out of Congress about not being consulted," says a senior House Republican aide. Tuesday's election suggests that Bush has loosened the country's 50-50 deadlock--Republican candidates won 53% of all votes cast in congressional and gubernatorial races--but not by much. In his first two years, Bush kept his conservative base happy but was also known to compromise on issues like education and campaign finance. Like Eisenhower's, Bush's popularity rests heavily...
...This bill has been a major sticking point over the last four months; the House passed a similar bill easily, while the Senate is still in a deadlock. Senate Democrats want to ensure Homeland Security staffers will be protected under union membership, while Republicans would prefer the President be given as much leeway as possible to hire and fire employees as the department grows and changes. President Bush, frustrated by the Senate's refusal to pass a bill allowing him ultimate control over the department, announced that lawmakers will stay in Washington as long as it takes...
...past three years - that he and Bush are forging a new Republican majority that will rule the land for a generation. "This is part of it," Rove told TIME last week. "It's not going to be a dramatic realignment of American politics in which one day it's deadlocked and the next day it's a blowout. The changes are gradual, but they're persistent." "They rolled the dice, they won and now Bush has a huge mandate," marvels Tony Coelho, who served as chairman of Al Gore's 2000 campaign. "It's not about 9/11 any more...