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...Leon Panetta, a Democrat who was Budget Director under Clinton and is a former chairman of the House Budget Committee, chuckled when he heard about Bush's plan to project an image of restraint. "What the hell's he using for numbers to map that out?" Panetta asked over the phone from Seaside, Calif., where he runs the Panetta Institute, a nonpartisan center for the study of public policy. "He has put us in a deep hole that's going to be very tough...
...antagonists even use the language of the battlefield. "Everybody's waiting in the trenches," said California Democratic Congressman Leon Panetta about impending votes on Capitol Hill. A White House aide sounded last week like a lecturer at a war college: "When we could pick where and when we wanted to fight, when we could direct set-piece campaigns in which we could mobilize all the White House resources, we never lost a major battle--tax cuts, budget, AWACS, MX missiles. In the past we used to fight one battle at a time in one House of Congress. Now we have...
...cell number, but Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is the chief bullet biter. That's why California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger buttonholed him at January's presidential Inauguration; the Golden State has 62 bases to protect. The Governator has also enlisted former Democratic Congressman and White House chief of staff Leon Panetta, who says, "Having a California Governor who campaigned for this President spells political power...
...hold monthly Let's Talk America days in their living rooms and town halls. The move may come off as earnest now, but it may simply look sensible if Americans end up feeling bruised by an election turned legal train wreck. "For our system to work," argues Leon Panetta, a former Clinton White House chief of staff and now head of a nonpartisan public-policy think tank in California, "the right to vote is the fundamental power we have in a democratic society, and if people feel that, for whatever reason, their vote is not being counted, that's going...
...candidate. But once Schwarzenegger said he would run, they couldn?t take the pressure. Twelve Democratic members of the state?s congressional delegation held a worried conference call and agreed they needed a Democrat on the ballot, their top choice being Bustamante or former Clinton chief of staff Leon Panetta. Shortly afterward, Bustamante, who had up until now stood solidly behind the Governor, announced he would run. With Schwarzenegger representing Republicans and Bustamante representing Democrats on the ballot, no one is standing behind Davis. And the Governor is going to have a much harder time convincing voters to listen...