Word: lott
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...Thursday night, as McCain-Feingold began to squint at the sunlight of victory, Trent Lott announced that Bush's 2001 budget - and the 10 years of tax cuts and spending curbs planted therein - had exactly half the Senate on its side...
...will have the votes," Lott declared, and at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, designated tie-breaker Dick Cheney and his old, old heart snapped to attention. On Friday, the hot wind on the Senate floor was again swirling around tax cuts, surpluses and national priorities, and after keeping to the sidelines while McCain accepted his Holy Grail, George W. Bush can get back to the fundamental question of his presidency thus far: Is changing the tone of Washington really worth compromising...
...nothing to do with McCain-Feingold - it's about the budget. Lott desperately wants to get all the budget resolution through the Senate next week, and hand President Bush a huge legislative victory going into Easter recess. Daschle wants to stop...
...happy-footed Democrats for severability appear to have been bought at the price of haste (got to foul up that Bush budget, after all), and the final victory that even Mitch McConnell expected Thursday night will not come until Monday. But after five years of butting up against Trent Lott's gatekeeping and McConnell's filibustering, John McCain and his shadow army of disgruntled voters finally got a soft-money ban onto the table, out where he could tempt senators with the prospect of a slightly less prostituted existence, if they were willing to take a chance. And more than...
...George W. Bush says he won't veto it. Phil Gramm says he won't filibuster it. Trent Lott says he wants a final vote on it Thursday night. And Tom Daschle says it's got a very good shot...