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...Bush aides had once considered potential allies. By forcing the most fiscally conservative members of the party to accept a tax cut they consider too large and by doing it before he produced the details of his budget and spending cuts, Bush galvanized the Democrats "in a way Dick Gephardt could never do," says Democratic Senator John Breaux. "That could spell serious problems for them on Medicare reform, education reform and other issues. What they did certainly didn't change the culture. It was just a repeat...
...Part of this, I guess, was started when Dick Cheney a few months back said we were in a recession," Gephardt said. "We've been talking ourselves into this; now it is happening...
...leaving himself open to that valid half of the Democratic argument ("Now there are real facts out there and the economic plan to me is not meeting the needs that are out there," Dick Gephardt declared Tuesday), he's giving unnecessary weight to the other half - that Bush is causing this "sputtering" himself...
...fact, this is probably how Bush should have sold his CO2 flip-flop - as a crisis-induced, temporary delay until the skies clear a little (no pun intended) - and it's how a big tax cut can make everybody, from Armey to Bush to Gephardt, look like they're actually reading the financial pages instead of just skimming over the headlines and moving on with their own ideological agenda...
While party leaders Tom Daschle and Dick Gephardt might have liked a bigger spotlight last week, the better to expose Bush's mysterious budget magic, they could not control the images emanating from Washington. More than a month after Clinton left office, he remains the image of the party even when he is battered and silent. He was supposed to be leading the government in exile, chiding Bush for reckless driving. "The liberals would have liked for Clinton to weigh in," says one key Democratic Senate aide. "But he can't. The Republicans have neutered...