Word: gop
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...GOP Takes On Encryption One of the architects of the Contract With America leads the charge against giving the government the keys to unlock your e-mail. Netly News: Software Money
Party Like It's 1999 The President submits next year's budget, the first balanced one in decades. But he's really gone to town with "big-government" provisions designed to anger the GOP...
...This, as the GOP points out, gives the lie to Clinton?s claim three State of the Unions ago that ?the era of big government is over.? Senate Budget Chair Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) called the 1999 budget a ?magnificent contradiction.? That it is, but Clinton?s populist proposals -- 100,000 new teachers, child care tax credits for working families -- will be hard to fight head-on. The Republicans would do better to concentrate on Clinton?s fiscally risky use of the proposed tobacco settlement; although that $368.5 billion deal is nowhere near being inked, the President has already...
...deadly date with the needle: Texas Governor George W. Bush. But he's running out of time. With hours left before the born-again killer's 7pm EST lethal injection, the Supreme Court turned down her appeal against the Texan clemency system. Will Bush, a contender for the GOP presidential nomination, step in at the last minute? Unlikely: All he has to offer is a 30-day stay of execution, an option his administration has already recommended against. No political gain is seen in merely prolonging her suffering...
...allies and enemies alike. An ABC poll gave the SOTU speech a 79 percent approval rating. Only 44 percent of those polled believed Hillary's line that the Prez's problems were due to a "right-wing conspiracy." Cokie Roberts asserted that even if the voters forgive Bill, their GOP representatives won't when his agenda hits the Hill...