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...what the flag represents, and that's why, in every issue of Southern Partisan, there's a "Confederate States of America Today" news roundup. In one issue, Missouri gets a dart because a hotel tried to have rebel flags removed during a Sons of Confederate Veterans shindig. And Trent Lott gets a nudge to enact a strong, committed, antigay agenda...
...indeed addicted to the up-Hill fight. Like tax cuts. Or "fast track," a battle Bush began in Quebec City with typical over-optimism. It's starting to look like a pattern: Take campaign promise. Assume mandate. Make menacing speeches in senators' home states, and then take whatever Trent Lott...
...American Shipbuilding Association, however, doesn't like to call them subsidies, and is determined to get its dough. It has lined up support from coastal-state Republicans, from Majority Leader Trent Lott (from Mississippi) to Appropriations Committee czar Ted Stevens (from Alaska). Democrat John B. Breaux (from Louisiana) recently wrote Bush that the guarantees should in fact be tripled, to $100 million. Lott cosigned...
...Senate actually passed a $1.188 trillion tax cut for that 10-year period. But the Senate also approved an $85 billion rebate for this year to stimulate the ailing economy. To make it appear that the chamber came closer to Bush's number than what the Democrats wanted, Lott and Cheney add the $85 billion to the $1.188 trillion and then round the $1.273 trillion up to get to their $1.3 trillion number. Breaux's moderates originally proposed $1.25 trillion as a compromise tax cut number, so they're using $1.27 trillion because it's closer to what they wanted...
...Breaux's moderates didn't really broker a compromise. Lott simply stopped the voting on the tax cut when the number reached $1.273 trillion, fearing it would be whittled away even more if Senate Democratic continued offering amendments. The House has approved all of Bush's $1.6 trillion cut. When the two chambers go into conference to hammer out a final compromise, Lott intends to move the final number closer to $1.6 trillion and leave Breaux's compromise in the dust...