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...Democrats, for their part, seem apoplectic over Medicare, it's also because the Republicans have stolen the issue from them. And Frist, as much as any other Republican, is the one who helped take it away. He kept top Democrats like minority leader Tom Daschle from the conference that wrote the bill, not an unheard-of maneuver against a Senator of lesser rank but a brassy one to be pulling on the chamber's top Democrat. Instead Frist handpicked the Democratic Senators he would negotiate with: Louisiana's John Breaux, who worked with him on a Medicare-reform panel...
...state to give gay couples the benefits of marriage, it was satisfied when legislators adopted a compromise civil-union law. But the Massachusetts court, which gave state legislators six months to implement its ruling, does not appear to have provided any wiggle room. State attorney general Tom Reilly, a Democrat who may run for Governor in 2006, is hoping the court will accept some kind of civil-union legislation. "This ruling is just not clear [on what kind of remedy it requires]," he says. Maybe. It was a narrow ruling, so the legislature might craft a solution so nuanced that...
Lieberman is the only Democrat I would consider voting for, and it's good to see him get some attention. It will take a sincere Democrat to challenge Bush. Klein made very clear how Democrats should vote in the upcoming primaries. DAVE JASINSKI Middletown...
...Klein's essay on the integrity of Senator Joe Lieberman [Nov. 10]: Democrats and Republicans may not like Lieberman, but I do. He isn't the kind of Democrat who always votes the party line; he is guided by his morals. A sense of ethics and trustworthiness are two characteristics of the ideal politician, and Lieberman is the closest you will come to the ideal. Such a politician, however, is never elected President. ROBERT AMON Howell...
...week's events illuminate a fundamental difference between Democrats and Republicans on domestic policy. The Democrats are boxed into complicated and unpopular positions because they tend to stand on principle--although the principles involved are often antiquated, peripheral and, arguably, foolish. The Republicans, by contrast, have abandoned traditional conservatism to gain political advantage (with the elderly, for instance) or to pay off their stable of corporate-welfare recipients. The Medicare bill contains large gifts to pharmaceutical manufacturers; the energy bill is a $23.5 billion bequest to traditional-energy producers, with additional billions worth of free-range pork tossed in. "This...