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Reform of this fiscal political question is currently being taken up by the Congress, in the process of reauthorizing the Higher Education Act. The legislation that comes up for review every so often, according to Washington lobbyist Kevin Casey...
...like reading the first chapter in a novel. You wonder what's foreshadowing of bigger things to come and what's just a false clue designed to throw you off the track. California elected a Republican action hero as its governor. Now Mississippi has elected a Republican Washington Lobbyist as its governor. Good for Bush in 2004? Or is it a positive sign for outsiders, whether they're Republicans...
...governorships. Does Haley Barbour, the governor-elect of Mississippi, bode well for outsiders? I doubt it. He is about as much of a political novice as Karl Rove. He was the political director in the Reagan White House and a Washington fixture for more than two decades as a lobbyist and TV talking head. Barbour is an iconic Republican, the same way Sen John Edwards, a trial lawyer, is the iconic Democrat...
...Norquist had also been in touch with top GOP lobbyist Don Fierce about the issue. Fierce, who has long represented MCI and is an ally of White House political guru Karl Rove, spoke personally to the GSA about MCI?s status as a contractor, lobbied House members to head off a provision that would have short-circuited MCI's future contracts and talked about the matter to the White House-which also tried to influence lawmakers. In addition, an associate of former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani-who stands to make a reported $150 million if MCI's bankruptcy reorganization...
...what they perceive to be a radical Republican Administration. Several weeks ago, at a Dean speech in San Francisco, a woman approached me and said, "I've been a moderate, Clinton-Gore Democrat, but no more." I asked her why. She said, "Grover Norquist," referring to the Republican taxophobe lobbyist who helped forge the President's tax cuts. "He said, 'Bipartisanship is date rape.' Well, I don't like being raped...