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...private meeting that took place in Rove's office last Tuesday tells you more about his value to Bush than anything about the publicity blitz. Rove--the Man to See for G.O.P. favor seekers--was joined at the meeting by Mary Matalin, a top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, and Alex Castellanos, a Republican consultant who has been working with oil companies to help sell Bush's plan to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Castellanos feared that bad press about the environment was weakening resolve inside the Administration, and he was right. Armed with polls and videotapes...
...Reported by Hilary Hylton/Austin, Andrew Meier/Moscow and Dick Thompson/Washington
...Vice President Dick Cheney: Well obviously that's not the case. During the course of the campaign we did mention that we thought it was a problem that there was no national energy policy for several years, that if you look down the road [at] the storm cloud on the horizon out there that could potentially adversely affect our long term economic outlook, it was potential problems in the energy area. And now here we are in April of 2001 and we're talking about rolling blackouts in California and power shortages all up and down the West Coast...
...overall budget, Bush - through Dick Cheney - had unsheathed his veto pen when it came to any increases in discretionary spending beyond 4 percent. Now (and this is the sort of newfound flexibility that goes with a shrinking tax cut) Bush told CNN that he's "keeping all options open...
...Except it's not working. All the home-state visits from Bush and back-room offers from Dick Cheney couldn't keep Republican moderates like Jim Jeffords and Lincoln Chafee to the party line on that $1.6 trillion tax cut, and in the end centrist Democrats like John Breaux felt little need to consider crossing over to the White House's way of thinking. The centrists called the compromise, and Tom Daschle, merely by slicing off 25 percent, was able to claim a victory...