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...said that he did not feel out of place as a Democrat, but that he disapproved of spectators' booing when First Lady Hillary Clinton was announced...
...this episode, which they all cite today, has since had a strange way of uniting moderate Republicans behind Ashcroft. They became equally angry over what they considered a mudslinging campaign from the White House, civil rights groups and the Judiciary Committee's ranking Democrat, Patrick Leahy, in the aftermath of the vote. "Every Republican who voted against White was branded a racist," says Republican Committee member Michael DeWine, who is proud of his civil rights record. However painful it will be to relive the White vote, it would be hard for any Republican to change his mind...
...could be that Ashcroft's fate will turn on how many Democratic Senators want to teach the nominee a lesson about fair play and equal justice. White was by no means the only judge Ashcroft tripped up; Ashcroft was notorious for blocking all kinds of appointments, from the openly gay ambassadorial nominee James Hormel to Susan Oki Mollway, the first Asian-American woman to serve on the federal bench in Hawaii. In Hormel's case, Ashcroft's objections had nothing to do with his qualifications and everything to do with his lifestyle. Ashcroft would refuse even to meet with judicial...
Which is precisely the scenario that critics of airline consolidation are eager to avoid. Says Representative Louise Slaughter, a New York Democrat: "It would be a travesty for the new Administration to let this go forward." Maybe, but few expect the Bush Administration to find the thrust reverser for this one. The President-elect hails from American's home state (CEO Carty was a big Bush contributor), and John Ashcroft, Bush's nominee for Attorney General, comes from TWA's. Says Holly Hegeman, an aviation analyst and publisher of the website planebusiness.com "I really don't think we would have...
...change in Administrations hasn't stopped some politicians, including Republican John McCain, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, who strongly opposes United's takeover of US Airways, from mounting a bipartisan effort to halt the deals. Democrat Byron Dorgan of North Dakota last week urged the Justice Department to "do its job and promote competition in the airline industry, not preside over its demise...