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...musical? Broadway songs are for what you can't say, for what's in your heart. Sidney, J.J. - what heart? And their success, which J.J. bathes in and Sidney just sniffs at, has as much to do with what they hide as what they say. These men do not explain themselves. They bark; the long note of a song's musical climax is not in their emotional repertoire...
Armed with colorful posters and PowerPoint presentations, they came ready to explain their plans...
...Pickering get picked on? At least one Democrat was straightforward about the reasoning behind his vote. The New York Times reports that Charles Schumer admitted that Pickering was “a decent and honorable man and certainly not a racist.” But Schumer went on to explain that the vote was about demonstrating the unacceptability of “stack[ing] the courts with Scalias and Thomases...
...That may explain why Bush isn't too bothered by a soft-money ban. For his 2004 re-election bid, the President is likely to have a huge hard-money advantage - in his first presidential bid, some 200 Bush "Pioneers" each raised $100,000 in $1,000 increments from friends--and the soft-money ban would make it hard for Democrats to catch up. Already the Dems are scrambling to narrow the huge Republican lead in hard money. The Democrats' new headquarters will have high-tech computers to help reach more of the $2,000-range donors...
...That may explain why Bush's other nickname for Rove is "Turd Blossom." The California move was part of an aggressive and unconventional Rove strategy to boost favored candidates in dozens of G.O.P. primaries around the country. Republican activists are grumbling about White House meddling in a party that claims to champion local decision making. This week supporters of Georgia state representative Bob Irvin--a former minority leader endorsed by 71 current and former state legislators--plan to send Rove and White House political director Ken Mehlman a letter protesting Bush's support of Congressman Saxby Cham-bliss over Irvin...