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...GOP has had a rough month. Liberal interest groups are running brutal TV ads that take a page from adopt-a-starving-African-child commercials. Adorable children stare wide-eyed into the camera as a voice-over criticizes President Bush and members of his party for blocking a $35 billion expansion of the popular State Children's Health Insurance Program ("George Bush just vetoed Abby," intones the narrator). And sick kids, it turns out, are just the first salvo: Democrats have lined up an array of heartwarming--and expensive--bills that will be potentially embarrassing for Bush to veto...
...party. Utility executive Wendell Willkie had been a delegate to the 1924 Democratic Convention. But he criticized F.D.R.'s Tennessee Valley Authority as being a power grab by the Federal Government, and key Republicans, including TIME co-founder Henry Luce, thought he would be a fresh face for the GOP. Willkie had changed his party registration in 1939, but not all party regulars appreciated the interloper; Willkie's supposedly grass-roots campaign, quipped Washington hostess Alice Roosevelt Longworth, had sprung from the grass of 10,000 country clubs. Still, a tumultuous Republican Convention picked Willkie to be Roosevelt's third...
...calendar with the most sympathetic bills. They next plan to hammer Bush on a bipartisan water-resources bill that again he says costs too much money. "The President's vetoes are not consistent with the judgment of the American public," says House majority leader Steny Hoyer. "We believe [the gop] will pay a price for that...
...which gives $7 billion to restore Louisiana wetlands and reorganizes the embattled U.S. Army Corps of Engineers--has so much support that Congress is likely to hand Bush the first veto override of his presidency. After that: more spending bills on issues like veterans' funding and education. If the gop thought commercials about sick kids were bad, there may be ads on the environment, veterans, teachers and more to look forward...
Some Republican conservatives have been threatening to back a third-party candidate for President next year if Rudy Giuliani wins the GOP nomination. Yet the sometimes-liberal former New York City mayor continues to run at or near the top of polls of Republican voters. When do parties reach outside the box for candidates? Do they define the people they nominate--or can a candidate change his party...