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...budget battle dogged Reagan all the way to the hospital. Reflecting the ire of other Senate Republicans, Majority Leader Robert Dole on Friday had publicly attacked the White House for "surrendering to the deficit" by dropping its support for the Senate's plan to freeze Social Security benefits for one year. Dole's remark, quoted in the Saturday-morning papers, stirred Reagan's wrath as he lay in bed only two hours away from surgery. He adamantly insisted to Regan that the Senate majority leader, and the public, be disabused of the notion that the White House was caving...
...Mexico's Domenici, who was not invited to the Oak Tree reception even though he chairs the Senate Budget Committee, called it "a terrible blow." Said another Senate source: "It was the Oak Tree meeting where they sawed off the limb Pete Domenici was on." Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole said the arrangement amounted to "surrendering to the deficit." Growled Iowa's Charles Grassley, one of 22 Republican Senators up for re-election next year: "The President, if he can't support us, ought to keep his mouth shut...
...cost of living adjustment on Social Security for one year, a politically brave move, while the House had refused to make any cuts in old-age pensions. To the outrage of Senate Republicans, the White House two weeks ago sided with the House. Furious, Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole accused the White House of "surrendering to the deficit...
It is one of Washington's open secrets that Senate Republican leader Bill Frist is eyeing the 2008 presidential race. But, as Bob Dole learned in 1996, running the Senate while campaigning for President is a particularly difficult proposition, and Frist's day job is already getting in the way. George W. Bush last week renominated 12 federal-appeals-court judges that Democrats had blocked in his first term. Frist has threatened to change Senate rules on extended floor debate to prevent Democrats from filibustering judicial nominees again, but Democrats say they will shut down the Senate if the Tennessean...
Having learned at least one lesson from Dole's experience, Frist will not run for re-election next year, and so will be out of the Senate before the '08 presidential primaries are under way. But the battle over Bush's judges will commence long before that. Next week, a few days after the Senate Judiciary Committee starts debate on two of the 12 renominations, Frist is scheduled to speak at a Lincoln-Reagan dinner in New Hampshire, home of the first G.O.P. primary in 2008. --By Massimo Calabresi