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...Nevada Democrat said that while he welcomed talk of a compromise, he was considering expanding the filibuster threat to include Bush's pick to be U.N. Ambassador, John Bolton, whose confirmation hearings begin this week. "We might filibuster him," Reid told TIME. And he added another name to the list of those who might be talked to death: Stephen Johnson, whose nomination to head the Environmental Protection Agency has drawn fire from California Senator Barbara Boxer over a pesticide-testing program involving children...
When emotionally charged political discussions erupt in the house, meanwhile, the staunch conservative stays up and argues right alongside her cohabitants. Swimming in a sea of liberals, Rachel has had plenty of chances to hone her debating chops. “Get me with some Democrat, and I’m right in there,” she says...
...presidency for the power it gave him to play the hero, and when it ended, he was as wounded and blind as a husband who loses an adored wife to another man,” O’Toole writes. The two candidates split the Republican ballots, and a Democrat, Woodrow Wilson, won with 42 percent of the vote...
DIED. HOWELL HEFLIN, 83, chief justice of Alabama's Supreme Court turned three-term Senator from Alabama; in Sheffield, Ala. A conservative Democrat, he voted against the nominations of Judges Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas and was a consistent supporter of black colleges and civil rights, including fair-housing legislation and a national holiday in honor of Martin Luther King...
...stratospheric to 55%, more or less. And while the Dems' knee-jerk support for the unions is a perennial portrait in cowardice, Schwarzenegger's proposals do avoid one crucial area of reform. "If he really wanted to lead with moral authority," says California state treasurer Phil Angelides, a Democrat running for Governor in 2006, "He would be asking everyone to make sacrifices. But he has been totally unwilling to ask those with means to give a nickel of their resources. We need a comprehensive package-spending cuts and revenue increases," that is, tax hikes. Angelides adds that G.O.P. Governors Ronald...