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...means is the President finished with this issue. But given where he was a week ago with 68 Republicans opposing him in the GOP-controlled House, he?s certainly in a much better place...
...only way to convince the public that his version of "balance" does more than pad Big Business? balance sheet is to borrow a page from Al Gore?s campaign handbook. "They haven?t given anyone a reason to believe Bush isn?t doing the bidding of corporate America, one GOP strategist told TIME last month. "They need a brawl...
...Well, almost. The EPA did announce one substantive change to the original Clinton plan: the dredging will now be carried out in phases, with government scientists (and, likely, GOP pollsters) evaluating at each step whether the cleanup is an effort worth its while. In other words, Bush and Whitman will have plenty of opportunities to back off from this fight in the years ahead. But for now, the Bush team took one look at the alternative - headlines like "Bush Lets Big Corporation Off Hook On River Cleanup" - and laced up its gloves...
...understandable that Philip Morris turned Marlboro red when the Czech report came out - with things going rather smoothly in Washington (the $7 million in contributions to the GOP are by far its best-performing investment), it didn?t want to push its luck. Just like it was understandable that Big Tobacco settled with states - taking its future immunity, raising prices and running - instead of challenging whether the states really deserved to reimbursed. And it?s equally understandable that governments, faced with (dubious) evidence that higher per-pack prices reduce youth smoking, would want to punish Big Tobacco for marketing...
...know how much you could use the economic stimulus. Wall Street is counting on it to hold up consumer spending until the business cycle has a chance to come around again. So is Alan Greenspan, who?s running out of interest rates to cut. So are a lot of GOP congressmen who would actually like to get re-elected next fall...