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...policy issues," he added, predicting that "there will be sharp questioning over whether he's going to be in the mainstream or on the edges." Ashcroft is a good note dropper who dashes off friendly cards to Republicans and Democrats alike. After his bitter Senate loss to the late Mel Carnahan in November, he sent a page-long handwritten note to Democratic leader Tom Daschle, thanking him for his friendship and help during the previous six years. Ashcroft said his only regret was that they didn't get to know each other better...
...Roving Reporter question of the week--"What do you want for Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa?" elicited a number of creative responses, including Hulsey's, who said, "I want the power Mel Gibson has in his new movie, What Women Want...
...record, Hulsey has not seen the Mel Gibson flick yet and does not plan on it. "I heard it kinda sucked," he said...
...Since he was first mentioned as a candidate for President-elect Bush's Cabinet, Ashcroft has inspired a groundswell of left-wing hand-wringing not seen since Clarence Thomas's confirmation hearing a decade ago. The former Missouri senator, whose seat was won in November by the late Mel Carnahan and is now occupied by Carnahan's widow, has a long and well-known history of conservative boosterism - but until recently, his ideology never made national headlines...
...Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Education Rod Paige--blacks would somehow overlook Ashcroft's horrendous record on race? Or that it was compassionately conservative for Bush to hire a man who had just lost re-election as Missouri's junior U.S. Senator to a dead man? (Governor Mel Carnahan, who died in a plane crash during the campaign, won the seat, and his widow is serving in his place.) It certainly couldn't have been that appointing Ashcroft would enhance Bush's image as a uniter, not a divider. Ashcroft's positions on civil rights issues are about...