Word: gop
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Meanwhile, five Democrats are competing for the chance to evict the GOP from the corner office—real estate the Republican party has held for 12 years...
...Democrats, furiously softening the ground for when the Senate comes up with its own version down the road, are already on the attack. None of the GOP's bills "would prevent big corporations from taking advantage of their employees as Enron did,'' said Dick Gephardt and Martin Frost (D-Texas) in a letter to Speaker Dennis Hastert. "We fear that characterizing the committee-passed bills as a response to the Enron collapse would seriously mislead millions of Americans about the security of their 401(k) plans...
...news rather than inviting him to a signing ceremony. Bush hopes enactment of the bill, which McCain has been pushing for seven years, will finally shift the spotlight away from his nemesis from the 2000 presidential primary. And he's not the only one hoping for a breather - GOP senators would also like a break from McCain's legislative reforms...
...crises around the world have a way of tripping up grand presidential visions. For the Bush doctrine, that political pothole comes in the form of Middle East violence. "The broad sweeping pledges made by the President have bumped into reality," GOP Congressman Henry Hyde, who chairs the House International Relations Committee, tells me. "There are so many smoldering fires out there that may require substantial attention at any time," such as Iraq, Kashmir and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. "All of these, plus some we haven't even thought of, hold some enormous danger and could command our military resources...
...Meanwhile, his staff kept turning over, disillusioned by the candidate's lack of focus and refusal to stay on message. Riordan never built ties to Republican consultants when he was mayor of a big Democratic city, and the GOP folks he hired for this race kept quitting on him. Communication was a problem. His staff didn't even know about a 1991 TV interview in which the supposedly pro-choice Riordan condemned abortion as murder until newspapers reported it. Davis, who saw in Riordan a moderate Republican who was his most dangerous potential opponent in the general election, jumped...