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...post-Sept. 11 patriotic fervor has silenced skepticism on Capitol Hill. One of the few complaints heard last week was that the new budget buys too few warships. (It came mostly from lawmakers from shipbuilding districts.) "The Democrats are terrified to challenge the President on defense," says Lawrence Korb, a Reagan-era Pentagon appointee. Senator Carl Levin, the Michigan Democrat who chairs the Armed Services Committee, expressed only mild concern, noting that the budget "comes without a comprehensive strategy or a detailed guide to that spending...
...classic cowboy type--all hat and no cattle--a braggart who pretended to enjoy better access to Bush than he really had. "Lay reminds me of one of those boys who shoots in the sky and claims he hit everything that falls," says Mark Stiles, a Democrat and former state legislator who was close to Bush. "Lay was just a glad-hander...
...grow and study hemp, but DEA regulations treating hemp as marijuana make such work expensive--high security is required around research plots--and Kentucky's plan isn't funded. "I wouldn't expect us to grow any hemp this year or even next," sighs majority whip Joe Barrows, a Democrat in the Kentucky house who sponsored the bill. Hawaii has a small plot where hemp cultivation is allowed, but research is going slowly...
...exactly how does a Democrat attack the budget of a Republican president whose approval numbers on a bad day dip to 80%, one who wraps himself in the flag and surrounds himself at speaking gigs like the State of the Union address with 9/11 widows, firefighters and Special Forces commandos? The upcoming midterm elections add another complication: Democrats are within six seats of taking back the House of Representatives in November, but in the two dozen hotly contested congressional races that'll determine whether they succeed, the swing voters are suburban or rural conservatives who at the moment would carve...
...result, when you see artillery fire from the Dems it's usually directed at the Bush Administration, not Bush himself. One favorite whipping boy is Office of Management and Budget Director Mitch Daniels. Democrat Kent Conrad, who chairs the Senate Budget Committee, practically accused him in hearings last week of going to the Enron School of Accounting in drafting the federal budget. The other target is Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill. He got into a silly spat last week with the Democrats' senior senator, Robert Byrd, over which one of them came from the humblest beginnings...