Word: democratization
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Summers's colleagues in Washington say that he was a brilliant economic administrator who was critical in the development of the Clinton administration's financial policies. But they say that though Summers is a Democrat, his competence and lack of partisanship have earned him the admiration of Republicans and Democrats alike...
...Bush, it sounds like a big fat loophole. A lame economy isn't the only way the surplus projections can go south - an increase in government spending would do the trick just as well. And when Bush hears a Democrat talk about making sure there's money for "necessary programs" in 2005, he figures he knows what they mean: Hello spending...
...That may depend on how much the Democrats are willing to bend in the name of consensus. There are signs that even staunch party members may be ready to talk turkey - no one, after all, wants to be labeled as the party that sank the education bill. When asked about vouchers Tuesday, Senator Edward Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, chose to accentuate the positive. "We have differences in that area, but the areas where we are in agreement are substantial and can make a very important difference." Paris agrees that concord could at last be poised to overwhelm conflict, and cites...
...Which is why top Senate Democrat Tom Daschle did most of the talking when he and Gephardt took to the microphones Thursday and introduced a budget of their own, which leans politically on "a hedge" against those rosy surplus projections' coming up crabgrass...
...even talk about a comprehensive energy policy without concrete policies to reduce oil demand," said Senator Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico, the ranking Democrat on Murkowski's committee. "We cannot produce our way to independence from foreign oil supplies...