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...White House officials said the President wanted to return the loyalty Mr. Hastert had shown the Administration," the New York Times reported. But then, Lott had also been a loyal spear carrier for George W. Bush, shepherding the President's legislative priorities through the Senate in 2001 and 2002. Lott's problem was ancient history. He had been disloyal to Bush's father, siding with Newt Gingrich against the tax increases that President George H.W. Bush proposed in 1990 and dissing Bush the Elder by participating in a noisy, Gingrichite call for tax cuts during the 1992 campaign. "You think...
...Leadership aides expressed relief that members were, at least initially, staying loyal. "The ship didn't go down," one congressional aide said. Trying to quash speculation Hastert might step down under pressure from the Speakership next year if the G.O.P. retains control, his office issued a statement today saying he "will run again and serve his full term" if his colleagues elect him. But now Republicans have a new worry: Key social conservatives have issued blistering statements about the handling of the Foley matter, arguing that political correctness kept G.O.P. leaders from intervening earlier, and are making it clear that...
...Administration's efforts to topple Hamas through a financial siege may have rendered the Palestinian territories ungovernable, not only by Hamas but by anyone. Government is barely existent in much of the West Bank and Gaza, with salaries unpaid and security in the hands of rival bands of gunmen loyal to factions rather than any central authority. Last weekend's deadly clashes between Fatah and Hamas gunmen may simply have been the opening volleys of a Palestinian civil war. Hamas will certainly not go quietly, and retains the support of close to half of mainstream Palestinian society...
...Anger has been steadily rising in recent weeks between Fatah gunmen loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas militants backing Prime Minister Ismael Haniyeh. Both sides were anxious to work out a formula that would end Western sanctions, which had choked off foreign aid and tax money to the struggling Palestinian Authority and prevented the payment of salaries to 160,000 government workers over the past five months. The embargo had been imposed after Hamas, which won the January elections, took office in March. Israel, the U.S. and Europe all consider Hamas a terrorist organization, and made ending the financial...
...Soon, the political quarreling spilled onto Gaza's mean streets. Palestinians close to Abbas say that Fatah wanted to hobble the democratically elected Hamas government by a series of strikes by government workers (many of whom are loyal to Fatah) demanding that a penniless Hamas government somehow pay their wages. With U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice touring the Middle East this week, Abbas was also anxious to show the unpopularity of the Hamas government, as a prelude to dissolving Haniyeh's cabinet, sources close to the president told TIME...