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...group, lawyers are the most generous donors to the Democratic party. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, lawyers gave $97.8 million in the 2000 election cycle, of which more than two-thirds went to the Democrats. With $10 billion in tobacco fees coming down the pipe, the GOP can't help but worry how much will end up in Democratic coffers...
...moderate Republicans, Sen. James Jeffords and Sen. Lincoln Chafee, have announced they are leery of a tax cut as high as $1.6 trillion. Jeffords likely will be brought back into the GOP fold, say Republican and Democratic Senate sources, but Chafee is a problem for Bush. So is Sen. Olympia Snowe, who has been talking up the idea of a "trigger" to kick in a higher tax cut only if surplus projections...
...playing into Bush's hands. The White House already knows that Bush's honeymoon will end soon and its top people are previewing this to reporters so they set the bar low for Bush. He's a master at keeping expectations low, then exceeding them. As one senior Senate GOP aide told me, "We are going to be aggressively underestimating ourselves throughout the entire process. That way we husband the momentum of the President and weather some of these ups and downs...
...without Clinton around, the protest wattage looks awfully low. Big Bad Bill's grandstanding skills were so formidable that GOP senator Phil Gramm on Thursday was blaming last year's pork-barrel budget on "Democrats working with the President." (Um, Phil, weren't you guys in the majority last year?) And this year the tax cut is coming the other way - from Pennsylvania Avenue to a still-unified Republican majority - and it's a few lower-income compromises away from winning over some Democrats as well...
...Bush's surprise at the feeding frenzy is, of course, an act. White House aides wanted a fever for the political cover it provides. When GOP conservatives howl for a $2.6 trillion cut and the Democrats come in at $900 billion, Bush's plan becomes the reasonable compromise at $1.6 trillion...