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...Last week, President Bush threatened to veto the Kennedy-McCain bill, which provides patients with a great deal of leeway in suing their HMOs, casting his lot instead with a more HMO-friendly version sponsored by GOP Senator Bill Frist. It sounds like a recipe for stalemate, but after years of arguing and finger-pointing over their failure to compromise, Capitol Hill lawmakers can scarcely afford to let a chance for indemnification pass them by. White House observers say Bush is open to negotiations...
...After Sen. Jim Jeffords became an independent and handed control of the Senate to the Democrats, the chamber's new majority leader Tom Daschle promised to treat Republicans and the White House far better than he says they treated him. GOP leader Trent Lott, in turn, dropped a threat to block the Democrats from taking control of the Senate. It was all handshakes and grins...
...there a silver lining for the GOP...
...could argue that the Jeffords switch signaled the end of the Democrats? freedom. Until the Vermont Senator jumped ship from the GOP, the Dems were the toothless underdogs, growling angrily but harmlessly at Trent Lott and his committee chairmen as they back-pedaled all over President Clinton?s legacy. Tom Daschle stood at the front of the Democrats? stage, bathed in a dim light as he vowed almost soundlessly to fight the Republican encroachment on Democratic sacred cows like debt reduction and saving Social Security...
...Democrats learn their way around an unfamiliar seat of power, GOP party strategists are quick brush aside any suggestion of Democratic dominance. This is hardly a situation, they remind anyone who will listen, that allows any party to assume a position of true supremacy. But the unintended consequence of all this is that the the Democratic majority gives the Republicans a foil and perhaps a campagin issue in 2002. You can imagine Bush campaigning against the Do-Nothing Democratic congress...