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...plan makes him bipartisan. Rumsfeld and Powell are keeping up the GOP?s end on foreign policy, but Bush knows the Republican Party doesn?t have a ton of credibility when it comes to the economy and Social Security and the national debt, and nobody?s in the mood right now to take a flyer on the rich people letting it trickle down. When it comes to the economy, do what Bob Rubin would do, and spread it around. Let businesses come around when they?re ready...
...caucuses to appoint the chairmen and ranking minority members from the affected committees to be members of the new committee. That would lead to deadlock, Republican and Democratic leaders privately agree. "You'd end up having chairmen with their ego problems trying to deal with each other," says a GOP senator. Lott would rather pick other members for the panel who have some expertise in the subject...
...This is something of a political renaissance for Ridge, 56, who had cheerfully accepted his fate as perpetual runner-up for vice presidential slots on recent GOP tickets. Last year, despite Bush?s long personal friendship with Ridge, GOP heavyweights advised against bringing the pro-choice Governor onto the ticket. His moderate politics were not going to help the Republicans reclaim the right wing; Ridge was simply too risky a proposition...
...Today, of course, the word "risk" carries a different connotation, and Tom Ridge has been pulled from GOP purgatory, hailed by the President as "a true patriot, military veteran and trusted friend," - and now he prepares to take on the most ambitious and difficult task of his political life...
...home and trading partners abroad that new markets are on the way. The pro-production energy plan, including Arctic drilling, would of course create innumerable jobs and other economic goodies. And balancing the budget without using Social Security funds - the very reason he's been so cool to GOP plans for further economy-juicing tax cuts - is now touted as an economic stimulus...