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...with the top four leaders in Congress. The idea was to make the lawmakers feel important by treating them to scrambled eggs, coffee and the President's personality. But the Breakfast Club has not met since Feb. 27. That morning Bush led the group--Democrats Tom Daschle and Dick Gephardt and Republicans Trent Lott and Dennis Hastert--on an hour-long tour of the world, briefing them on Afghanistan, Pakistan and his recent trip to Korea, Japan and China. But the next morning Daschle and Gephardt learned what he had left out. They woke up to a headline that said...
Bush's reluctance to spend political capital on tough fights has emboldened Democrats. Daschle and Gephardt plan to press for vastly more money than Bush wants for prescription-drug and education spending, two issues they believe will play well for their party in the November elections. And Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have targeted four more conservative nominees they might block for the appeals court: Jeffrey Sutton in Ohio, Miguel Estrada in the District of Columbia, D. Brooks Smith in Pennsylvania and Priscilla Owen in Texas. Dan Bartlett, the White House communications director, says Bush intends to fight...
...Gephardt made time in New Hampshire to stump for John Kacavas, who was running for a spot on the state's executive council. Kacavas had other out-of-state supporters: Senators John Edwards, Lieberman and Kerry, as well as Vermont Governor Howard Dean. (Kacavas lost anyway.) Party activists, too, are making new friends. When Debra Crapo, vice chairman of the New Hampshire Democratic Party, got home from a Gephardt event two weeks ago, she found a message on her answering machine from a political operative for Edwards, just checking in. Edwards had already written a note to Crapo's husband...
...with fire fighters and a "listening session with seniors." (Lieberman has said he will not run if Gore does, but made it clear that he expects his former running mate to make up his mind by the end of the year.) The weekend before, House minority leader Dick Gephardt, who represents St. Louis, made his third visit to New Hampshire in less than a year, ostensibly to honor a Super Bowl bet he had made with his counterpart in the New Hampshire legislature. And not long before that, Vietnam veteran John Kerry brought Democrats in Concord, N.H., to their feet...
...vying for the chance to take on Bush and his 75% approval rating, it feels like the day after tomorrow. At least five states expect to schedule their primaries right behind the New Hampshire and Iowa contests, which means, "for practical purposes, you are running in a national primary," Gephardt says. "The old Jimmy Carter state-by-state routine is not going to happen again...