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...Bush has all-but-promised to tip his hat to bipartisanship; and thus must find at least one Democrat before he fills the rest - Transportation, Labor, Education, Interior, Veterans and Energy, UN Representative and the Office of the US Trade Representative. But hardly anyone expects him to find more than...
...firms working on the Bush postelection phase. And according to the Wall Street Journal, O'Connor's husband said at an election-night party that his wife, a 70-year-old breast-cancer survivor, would like to retire but that she would be reluctant to leave if a Democrat won the presidency and got to select her successor. Hers was a key swing vote that ensured a Republican victory. A conflict? Says Lerman: "At the very least it creates an appearance problem...
Bush wants to name a Democrat to some post, perhaps the Department of Energy, if he can just find one who'll go along. The job of whittling down the options has fallen to Cheney, who has spent the past few weeks since his heart attack gathering resumes and making tentative feelers and offers so Bush is never turned down. "Cheney doesn't decide," explained an aide, "but he does tee up the choices." Giving Cheney the job of sifting through the names may turn out to be a nifty bit of Bush judo: if the party's base doesn...