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...Administration. And those vagaries were duly taken by hawkish Republicans and Pentagon officials to mean simply that more money - even more than Clinton threw blindly at the Pentagon at budget time every year to keep those hawks and soldiers off his back - was on the way from the new GOP president...
...where "the real political battlefield in 2000" occurred, according to one Republican Party memo. Obscure candidates for state offices found themselves flush with millions of dollars from the Democratic and Republican parties. It was money well spent, both parties believed. "From a purely financial point of view," continues the GOP memo, "if the GOP loses this war, the money it will have to spend - perhaps vainly - in attempting to recoup its loses is staggering compared with what it needs to invest ... to win the 2000 state legislative races...
...about dark decades of the past when Democrats controlled most state governments as well as the pens that drew congressional maps. Over the last ten years, of course, the Republicans have leveled the playing field considerably. Before last November?s election, the Democrats controlled only 19 governorships while the GOP controlled 29. Of the 49 bicameral state legislatures, Democrats controlled 19, Republicans held 17, while 13 others were split. (Nebraska has a unicameral non-partisan legislature...
Well, George W. Bush got his "victory" headlines. "Bush?s Energy Bill Is Passed In House In A GOP Triumph - Environmentalists Lose," moaned the New York Times. "Bush?s Energy Plan Endorsed By House," said the Washington Post. The L.A. Times went straight to the hot button: "House Votes To Allow Oil Drilling in Alaska...
...much did he actually win? By the time the House GOP leadership drummed up the 240 votes to pass its energy bill after midnight Wednesday, the 1.5 million-acre swath of the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge Bush had earmarked for exploration had been shrunk by compromise to 2,000 acres - and backers had to stroke the labor unions (salivating over construction jobs in the tundra) to get that...