Word: nelsons
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...board the Bush plan and Rhode Island Republican Lincoln Chafee siding with the Democrats. Enter the back-scratching: Vermont Republican Jim Jeffords says he could bolt if Republicans don't give him a $180 billion plan to fully fund the federal share of education programs; Nebraska Democrat Ben Nelson - as a narrowly elected red-state Democrat, a prime target for Bush blackmail - is talking to GOP leaders about farm programs. And Chafee may yet yield to the hard party sell: "The President feels strongly about it, and that was conveyed," Chafee said Monday...
...Bush sees it as a variation on Ronald Reagan's strategy of going over the heads of Congress; Reagan's televised 1981 appeal for tax cuts flooded Capitol Hill with supportive phone calls and letters. But a week after Bush's visit to Nebraska, aides to Democratic Senator Ben Nelson say, the response to Bush was unremarkable--far fewer calls and e-mails, in fact, than the office got in January during the battle over John Ashcroft's Attorney General nomination. Daschle greeted Bush's arrival Thursday in South Dakota, Daschle's home state, with ads thanking...
...Sharon also wants to change the U.S. attitude to Yasser Arafat. The Israelis are very frustrated that the international community looks at Arafat as some kind of Nelson Mandela figure. Because Arafat doesn't behave like Mandela. The Israelis want Arafat to be judged by his actions, and that there should be fewer carrots and more sticks in the way the international community deals with...
...hear Bush describe his budget, you'd think Nelson and the others would all be jumping up and shouting "Hallelujah!" As Bush tells it, we can afford guns and butter, higher spending and lower taxes, missile defense and a prescription-drug benefit, Social Security forever. After a month that felt more like the ninth season of the Clinton Show than the first of Bush's, the new President's address last Tuesday had the air of a second Inauguration. In a real sense, it marked the beginning of his presidency, the moment when the new guy started filling his suit...
...innings, 30 runs more than the next best in the game. A recent book comparing the relative statistical achievements in a variety of sports put Bradman ahead of Michael Jordan, Ty Cobb and Pele. One of Australia's most beloved heroes, he was revered abroad as well. When Nelson Mandela was released after 27 years in prison, his first question to an Australian visitor was, "Is Sir Donald Bradman still alive...