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...terms of that chamber's balance of power - with 51 seats already in the bag, Republicans are guaranteed at least a majority. But the runoff contest between Louisiana's incumbent Democrat, Mary Landrieu, and her Republican challenger, Suzanne Haik Terrell, does hold a powerful symbolic appeal. A number of GOP VIPs, including President Bush, have campaigned in the state recently to help solidify the party's strong national showing in November; Democrats, mindful that they already need two Jim Jeffords-like defections to retake the Senate, would prefer not to make it three . A quick rundown before Saturday's vote...
While the public clamors for assurance against further terrorist attacks, Republicans have demonstrated their willingness to compromise their basic party values in an effort to appease the electorate. Before Sept. 11, some GOP candidates ran on platforms of abolishing the Department of Education, arguing that it duplicated the efforts of state and local education. Now the party of small, efficient government is the biggest advocate of a growing executive...
More dangerous than a padded executive branch, however, is the false sense of security the department fosters among the American public. In exchange for even higher approval ratings and a GOP sweep of the mid-term elections, Republicans have sacrificed reality to placate American nightmares. True conservatives should balk at this new layer of bureaucracy, which is merely a band-aid for the country’s fear and compromises a crucial element of the party’s founding principles...
...consider: Because Congress failed to approve spending bills before the start of the fiscal year (on October 1st), the HSD, along with virtually every other federal endeavor, is operating under an assumed budgetary outline. There are sure to be battles - perhaps largely symbolic, given that come January, the GOP will have control over both houses of Congress - over exactly how much money is appropriated to which security measure. There are also concerns among Democrats and Republicans over several last-minute provisions tacked onto the HSD bill, including one (which raised particular hackles) that provides Texas A&M University - a favorite...
...hasn't been an easy road to passage for the HS Department, but now, after the Senate defeated attempts by Democrats to strip the bill of GOP-sponsored add-ons, the White House is virtually assured victory. And while the first signs of transition will be limited to moving vans and packing boxes, they will signal the largest reorganization of federal agencies since the 1947 merger of the War and Navy departments, which formed the Defense Department, and the first major restructuring since 1977, when the Energy Department first came on the scene. The HSD would employ 170,000 people...