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...headliner, of course, is the tax cut. Now placeholding $1.35 trillion over 11 years (down from $1.6 trillion over 10), the details are henceforth largely in the hands of the House Ways and Means committee, which has the votes to pass whatever the gung-ho GOP leadership wants, and the Senate Finance committee, which doesn...
...military and the State Department think. From Rove he wants to know how the issue is playing with the faithful. Officially, Rove has no role in foreign policy, but during the China spy-plane crisis, he advised Bush on how various actions would be received by a key GOP constituency - the anti-China hawks...
...White House, the spinning won't have a prayer of changing public perceptions. Which is why the private meeting that took place in Rove's office last Tuesday tells you more about his value to Bush than anything about the publicity blitz. Rove - the Man to See for GOP favor seekers - was joined at the meeting by Mary Matalin, a top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, and Alex Castellanos, a Republican consultant who has been working with oil companies to help sell Bush's plan to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Castellanos feared that bad press about...
...Rove, an autodidact and amateur historian, insists that presidents should be judged on a 180-day timetable, since the legislative calendar follows one. That theory won't stop the barrage of analysis that will begin this week, so, to feed the media beast, Rove and Hughes met with GOP surrogates in the Old Executive Office Building last Thursday to hand out a script. The central message: Bush will not overhype the moment. The White House is presenting its achievements as a celebration of the joint accomplishments of Bush and Congress. The President will entertain members of Congress and their spouses...
...many of his positions from Goldwater’s example. While his assertion that Clinton and Goldwater share many of the same stances is doubtful, Perlstein’s essential point is correct. Post-Reagan, only a New Democrat like Clinton could have retaken the White House from the GOP. The entire underpinning of American politics had changed by the 1990s. But while Perlstein astutely tells the story of Goldwater’s rise to national prominence, he fails to deliver the powerful ending his introduction describes, only hinting at the ramifications of the events of November...