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...novelty-sized check made out to "U.S. Taxpayer" in the amount of $1,600 - which, say White House mathematicians, is the average tax cut for a family of four under the plan - and some actual working families, one for each of the three lowest brackets, Bush hit all the GOP campaign themes. "Everybody who pays taxes will get some relief." "No American should pay more than a third of his income to the federal government." And the across-the-board point again: "I think it's important to cut all tax rates...
...shall remain unnamed - largely because her parents would not be at all pleased to hear about this baby step toward the dark side, a.k.a. the GOP - applied for pretty much every job in the administration. And thanks to the magic of the Internet, it only took her three or four minutes. Check off a few boxes, scroll down a couple of listings, cut and paste a résumé, and that's it - you're in the running to become secretary of state. Isn't America great...
Conservative groups, meanwhile, have mounted an equally aggressive ad campaign on Ashcroft's behalf. His answers during two days of testimony and to more than 360 written questions the committee's Democrats threw at him "are thorough and forthright," insists Jeanne Lopatto, an aide to the panel's GOP chairman, Orrin Hatch...
...GOP conservatives unimpressed...
...rubber chicken circuit (where Powell earned up to $100,000 per speech). Already conservative Republicans, including some influential staffers on Capitol Hill, are complaining that Powell's choices for the top jobs are not sufficiently ideological. (He has been trying to recruit good managers.) Frank Gaffney, a hard-line GOP foreign policy maven, has lost no time writing an op-ed piece attacking the administration's China policy...