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...Waller: The GOP played softball - last week they'd threatened to draw the White testimony out and rehash his past alongside Ashcroft's, making it a sort of dual hearing. But the GOP must have decided they're ahead on points - Ashcroft will be confirmed, so why have every civil rights and liberal group in the country up in arms over a harsh line of questioning...
...course, taught by GOP heavyweight Roger B. Porter, IBM professor of business and government at the Kennedy School of Government, held its midterm exam on Election Day. Porter has worked with the Bush transition team...
...hand at reconciling the Helms-Burton act with Washington's obligations under international free-trade agreements. Republican realism on Cuba There may be a second reason the new Bush administration may be tempted to maintain President Clinton's waiver - the widespread, if relatively muted, recognition among the GOP's foreign policy grownups that the longstanding embargo of Cuba may no longer be serving the U.S. national interest, if that interest includes influencing events in a post-Castro scenario. Publicly, of course, they'll all hold the line. Secretary of State-designate Colin Powell on Wednesday dutifully upheld the embargo during...
...Clinton would be back in the spotlight again, in other words, resurrecting precisely the type of public relations derring-do that frustrated so many of his foes over the last eight years. And now, much to the dismay of the GOP, just as the second Teflon president prepares to be yanked off the national stage, he's not riding off quietly into the sunset, as so many Republicans had hoped...
...time Ashcroft wrote to Pratt, the Virginia-based activist was already branded as a pariah even by those considered to the right of the GOP: Two years earlier, he had been forced to step aside as co-chairman of Pat Buchanan's presidential campaign after news reports of his association with leaders of the Ku Klux Klan, the Aryan Nations and militias...