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...again. Bush will take to the Teleprompter in economic times that are threatening to turn tough, and he'll be selling restraint of government - and some rich-men's rebates - instead of New Deal sympathies. He's not the salesman Bill Clinton was, but then again neither are Dick Gephardt and Tom Daschle, and the great thing about American politics is that viewers will have to choose one or the other...
...hadn't had to worry about in the past eight years, when Clinton was the voice of the Democratic party and could drown out the Republicans when he had to. Now the voice of the Democratic party is fractured among Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt, New Democrats like Sen. John Breaux and assorted senior committee members...
...Thursday, it was Tom Daschle and Dick Gephardt, armed with posterboards, announcing the minority party's counteroffer to George W. Bush's $1.6 trillion baby: $900 billion. No details - the Dems are still squabbling about what kind of tax cuts they want - but some proportions. With the projected non-Social Security surplus at $2.7 trillion, Daschle and Gephardt did sketch out a general surplus plan: one third for tax cuts, one third for debt reduction; and one third for new spending (education, a Medicare prescription drug benefit and the like...
...Gephardt and Daschle are recycling all the arguments Bill Clinton used to beat back Republican tax cuts in each of the past few years - not only does the Bush cut benefit the rich, it also cheats the poor of their due in government spending. This year, they don't have Clinton, and Tom and Dick - both of them comparatively untalented as demagogues - certainly miss the invaluable p.r. backup the Great Salesman used to provide...
...Democrats will get some movement in the back rooms - Bush is shopping for 15 to 30 House Democrats to stand behind him on this one, and he'll need to strike a few bargains like the death-tax repeal to get them to cross the aisle (and Gephardt). But to move the big numbers, like $1.6 trillion, you've gotta move the masses. And he may just do so. Daschle's and Gephardt's 2001 pitch - charts, graphs and Jon Corzine - doesn't look likely to turn many heads...