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...that everybody's happy - not even close. Most environmental groups would prefer not to drill at all, and Florida Democrat Sen. Bill Nelson, quickly dubbed the plan "the proverbial camel's nose under the tent." (Norton did say the plan would call for a reconsideration of its limits in six years.) And the energy industry and its friends in Congress are just plain appalled at Bush's lack of backbone...
...enjoyed it so much he was eager to do it again on his Patient Protection Act, which he introduced two weeks ago with Republican John McCain and North Carolina Democrat John Edwards. "We ought to do the same thing on this," he told Bush during a Capitol Hill lunch on March 15. Bush smiled but didn't commit. "We've gotten the cold shoulder," Kennedy later complained...
...Poniewozick on one of television's indelible icons: "As O'Connor played him, Archie Bunker was perpetually and evocatively tired: tired from his job, tired from dealing with the new world of strangers that moved into his Queens neighborhood... He put the lump in lumpenproletariat... He was a Reagan Democrat years before anyone knew they existed... Archie was an Astoria King Lear." www.time.com/oconnor...
...Republican measure, sponsored by Bill Frist, Democrat John Breaux and Independent Jim Jeffords (and backed by the White House) sets up an extensive appeals process to weed out frivolous lawsuits. It also limits suits to the federal system and puts a $500,000 cap on damages. Republicans argue the Democrats' bill would leave health plans open to catastrophic legal costs and raise the price of insurance premiums, forcing employers to drop coverage. In the end, the White House argues, the unlimited-damages approach could leave millions of Americans without insurance. (Democrats contend their plan would cost just 37 cents...
Getting a patient's bill of rights he prefers just became tougher for President Bush because he strung along his friend, G.O.P. Congressman Charlie Norwood. When Democrat John Edwards introduced such a bill in the Senate last February, the White House opposed it largely because it let patients sue their HMOs for up to $5 million. The Administration got Norwood to hold off sponsoring a nearly identical bill in the House, promising to strike a compromise. Imagine his surprise when he found that Bush aides had secretly written a bill more to their liking with G.O.P. Senator Bill Frist, limiting...