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...Democrat so I would have rather been seeing Al Gore sworn in," Duraiswamy said. "But it was definitely a spectacle...
...then lived up to it. Roaming the globe building houses and talking peace has already been done - is still being done - but no one expects that to keep Clinton off the stage. Author, certainly. Guest speaker, definitely. Citizen of the world? Tony Blair's door is always open. Democratic fund-raiser? Terry McAuliffe will be in touch. Presidential campaign manager? That fourth warning was neatly framed over Clinton's shoulder - a photo of Senator Hillary Clinton, who will be the only employed one next week but is still married to the most powerful Democrat in the free world...
...Ashcroft's answers sometimes avoided the questions altogether, as if perhaps he was more interested in putting a few minds at ease than in full disclosure - an approach that reportedly has Democrats fuming and claiming Ashcroft is masking his true convictions. Will Ashcroft's closely held conservative ideology, they demanded, influence the way he'd enforce the law of the land? Absolutely not, replied Ashcroft again and again, in an increasingly injured tone. "I know the difference between enactment and enforcement." Undeterred, his assailants kept up their attack well into the evening. Democrat Herb Kohl, who lackadaisically probed Ashcroft about...
...including abortion and gay rights. As the committee members made their opening statements, an unintelligible protester shouted briefly before being carted off by Capitol police, and it looked like fireworks weren't too far off. P> They even threatened to explode once or twice as committee chairman Patrick Leahy, Democrat from Vermont, and ranking minority member Orrin Hatch, Republican of Utah, bared their teeth at each other over procedure and the reputation of their respective parties...
...senators' comments to Ashcroft fluctuated wildly between invective and praise: Senator Edward Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, declared, "I find Senator Ashcroft's record to be extremely troubling," while South Carolina Republican Strom Thurmond croaked out his support. Jeff Sessions, Republican of Alabama, told Ashcroft, "I think you are perfect for this job," and was seconded by New Hampshire Republican Bob Smith...