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...that they've got the sunny, compassionate face of George W. Bush watching over them, congressional Republicans apparently figure it's safe to channel the pudgy soul of Newt Gingrich. And so on Monday House Speaker Dennis Hastert and GOP whipmeister Tom DeLay yanked a late-night budget deal out from under their own negotiators and waded into one last budget showdown with Bill Clinton. And this time, they're definitely gonna take him. Really...
...game is on. Kept on the campaign sidelines by his own vice president, Clinton is fighting the war in Washington, giving free play to Al Gore's priorities while keeping GOPers in Congress tied to their desks instead of getting out the vote at home. And the GOP, after weeks of dutiful negotiating, has decided to take him up on his offer for a fight. "We're not going to get pushed out of town with a bad deal," Hastert told reporters. "You call it a stalemate. I call it fighting for the American people to get good legislation...
...That's what Gore calls it too. Except that the reason DeLay and Hastert killed the deal (a repetitive-stress-syndrome OSHA regulation measure) was definitely on behalf of business - and is one of the things that tend to make the GOP look mean-spirited once Clinton gets to spinning...
...knowledge, it's particularly not hurting Republican candidates," said Alaska's Sen. Ted Stevens, one of the GOP negotiators whom Hastert and DeLay overruled. "They tell me their numbers have come...
...course, Stevens also recommended to GOP leaders that they accept the White House's compromise. And get the heck out of town...