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...increase to 4.3 cents per gal. -- $33 per year for an average driver -- rather than the larger, broader energy tax that Clinton and the House Democrats had wanted. Republicans are expected to oppose the plan solidly, but Democratic leaders feel they can hold ranks and win narrow passage in the full House and Senate this week...
Call it flood politics and a united front. While the levee was finally broken by a narrow vote to approve a desperately needed $2.74 billion relief package, the point was well made. Senate Republicans are selflessly protecting the budget from a higher deficit, something which naturally took priority over those left without electricity, water and/or homes by the flood...
...same holds true for self-styled "pro-choice" advocates. For a bunch of people who fancy themselves as advocates of the myriad possibilities that this world has to offer, their focus is extremely narrow...
...this clearly last February, when he asked the Pentagon to study the dilemma. "I think people should not be asked to lie if they're going to be allowed to serve," the President said. "The question is not whether they should be there or not. They are there. The narrow question of this debate is . . . Should you be able to say that you're a homosexual if you do nothing wrong? I say yes." (From there, by the way, Clinton articulated the only morally supportable reason for discharge, "sexual harassment, whether homosexual or heterosexual...
...characters are not fully developed. They do not engage us. The reader neither cares about nor understands their motivations or the tortured questionings of their hermetically sealed, inconsequential lives. This work reads like an unfinished draft, a semi-literate assault on what the author perceives as society's narrow-minded preconceptions...