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...Republican ruling council, looking and sounding sincere but still very capable of scaring the other half of the country to death. Bush and Cheney pulled up tastefully patterned armchairs for House Speaker Denny Hastert, with a wrestling-coach glisten on his face, and Senate boss Trent Lott, looking odd in denim. (Tom DeLay had to wait in the shed until the TV crew left.) Bush was an affable host, sharing the soundbites near-equally, and when it was his turn, he talked at some length about legislation (especially about the tax cut as economic stimulus), mused about healing, and named...
When he first heard of this quirk in the swearing-in schedule several weeks ago, Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle didn't pay it much attention. The current Senate Majority Leader, Trent Lott, would probably still run the place informally, since Republicans would be in the majority on Jan. 20, no matter which man became president, Daschle aides thought. If it's Dubya, Lieberman keeps his Senate seat and Dick Cheney casts tie-breaking votes to give Republicans control in the 50-50 chamber; if it's Al, Lieberman gives up his Senate seat and Lott controls with...
...this week, the Senate parliamentarian informed Daschle's office that rules are rules. Daschle will be majority leader for 17 days in January and Lott will have to step aside during that time. So Daschle's staff is now scrambling to decide what it will do during the Democrats' 17-day reign. They've ruled out firing the thousands of Republican staffers that the majority gets to hire. That's not the way to start out a friendly working relationship with the other party, and Lott would just rehire the aides when he was back in harness...
...agenda. But 80 percent of the country say they'll nominally support whomever is declared the winner. As for the split Congress, my unsubtle view is that the 50-50 Senate has a moderate Republican bias. There is political capital for campaign finance reform. It might happen. Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) could be wise to follow a pragmatic, moderate course of action if they want success in the 2002 midterm elections...
...determined to keep counting until he got a result he liked. Gore's Democrats were, for the first time in a long campaign, united behind their leader last week, if only out of shared disgust at his enemies. Democrats kept finding new fuel for their indignation: when Trent Lott denounced the Florida Supreme Court's "unelected judges" for usurping the rights of the people by letting the recounts continue; when Florida Republicans threatened to name their own set of electors to send to the electoral college and count on House Republican strongman Tom DeLay to make sure they get seated...