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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...
...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...
...from assured. The House approved a similar measure in the last Congress, when it was certain the Senate would kill it. Would it do the same if it means sending a bill to Bush's desk? And if the two houses have to reconcile their versions, whom would Lott appoint to the conference committee? If he sent McCain and his nemesis McConnell, the fight would just continue in a different theater...