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...Democrats, several of whom have unveiled their own more modest proposals, say Bush's economics embrace a central stereotype of the Republican Party: only the rich need apply. Although Bush touted the fact that the average tax bill would shrink $1,083, almost half of all filers would get reductions of less than $100, according to the left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. The top 1% would get breaks of $24,400, on average. "This is the most reckless policy I have seen pursued by any President in my adult life," fumes Kent Conrad of North Dakota...
Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat who gave up her seat as governor of New Hampshire for an unsuccessful bid for Republican Bob Smith’s former seat in the U.S. Senate, will lead a weekly study group...
...It’s not like threading a needle. There is going to be plenty of room for a Democrat to win,” Rosenthal said...
...election. In campaigning, many centrist politicians have adopted his controversial positions on issues like immigration, crime and education. Freedom and Democracy Party leader Gerrit Zalm has embraced the notion that the country can no longer take in immigrants: "The Netherlands is full," he now says in his speeches. Social Democrat leader Wouter Bos is doing a more effective Fortuyn impersonation - "Only Dutch to be taught in our schools" - and is leading in the polls. Ironically, Fortuyn's own party, the List Pim Fortuyn, is faring badly. But as his once-radical ideas turn into the conventional political wisdom, Fortuyn...
...going to parties because even a spilled drink can lead to a shooting. Police say some black inner-city youths use guns as fashion accessories. In London last year, 20 of the city's 22 gun homicides were the result of black-on-black crime. Simon Hughes, a Liberal Democrat frontbench M.P. for a South London constituency, says "the culture isn't limited to youngsters of Caribbean extraction but is spreading out into other black communities, and into Turkish and Balkan ones." While last week's headlines prompted calls for stronger action against gangs, the government's first reaction...