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...Republicans insist they won't take it lying down this time around. They say they'll flex their power to block passage of spending items - which require a two-thirds majority in both houses that Democrats can't muster without their help - as a way to force themselves into the horsetrading sessions. Having received assurances from the Governor that deficit reduction is a priority and that he won't raise taxes, the G.O.P. has installed new statehouse leaders who say they intend to hold him to his word - and to keep him from completely caving to Democrats. "If we have...
...Israel Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert ended decades of ambiguity about his country's nuclear capabilities when he inadvertently named Israel in a list of countries that possess such weapons. Officials insist he was misinterpreted, but Iran is pressing the U.N. to place Israel's facilities under inspection - a move the U.S. would most likely veto...
...incorporate the amphibious moves of dancers filmed in motion-capture suits and weave them back into the computer-generated characters, so that the sight of 10,000 penguins gyrating to Prince's Kiss seems not only weirdly natural but also pretty cool. And being George Miller, he would insist that his tap-dancing hero Mumble (voiced by Elijah Wood) be composed of no less than six million CGI penguin feathers...
...once those talks resumed, the North Koreans tried to turn the U.S. sanctions strategy on its head, insisting that no progress was possible as long as the U.S. Treasury Department kept in place measures that have frozen North Korean funds in a bank in Macau, in retaliation for alleged counterfeiting activities. It even threatened to raise the stakes with further nuclear tests. Clearly, North Korea believes its nuclear test has strengthened its bargaining position, and it sees South Korea and China resisting U.S. calls for harsher action as signaling the limited options available to Washington; essentially, the outcome will...
...With Johnson unable to vote, Democrats still have enough to prevail, with 50 votes (including the two independent Senators, Joe Lieberman of Connecticut and Bernie Sanders of Vermont) to 49 for the Republicans. But Democrats now fear the real possibility that Republicans will filibuster that resolution. They could insist - just as the Democrats did after the 2000 election that left the chamber evenly split, with Vice President Dick Cheney as the tie-breaker - on an "out clause" that stipulates that control of the chamber goes to them if they somehow manage to achieve a majority during the course...