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...John Ashcroft's claim that people who raised concerns that the Patriot Act was a threat to liberty were aiding terrorists. Before Campaign '04 was over, Soros had become one of the largest political contributors in U.S. history, spending about $27 million, most of it channeled to the independent partisan groups called 527s--all of it aimed against Bush. As it turned out, all was for naught. So, what does Soros do now? "I think I go into a monastery," he jokes. "I need to regroup." Then he adds pointedly, "But one doesn't want to stay in a monastery...
...subsequent weeks, what was left of Bush's lead was ground away by, as always, Iraq--a steady drip drip drip of discouraging news punctuated by the occasional sensation amplified by an eager and often partisan press. The finale was the 380 tons of explosives that had disappeared, only possibly on Bush's watch, out of a total of more than 650,000 tons left behind by Saddam Hussein. Banner-headlined, it dominated the news--and Kerry's attacks--in the final week of the campaign...
...Today’s mood has been pretty somber, everyone’s real touchy,” Truesdell said, referring to Republicans “under fire” on Adams-Schmooze. Heated debates on many house open lists yesterday signalled a continuing partisan fervor in the wake of the election...
Ryan said she too tried to hide her feelings in Stat 100, but questioned her success. “I felt I should be non-partisan but I probably showed I was disappointed,” she said. “I tried not to show it too much...
Full public financing should not be a partisan issue. Unlike caps on campaign contributions and expenditures, full public financing comports with the right’s inherent skepticism of government regulation. And it perfectly reflects the left’s ambition to liberate politics from special interests. Until the public controls the power of the purse, it will continue to get shortchanged. If someone is going to own our politicians, it might as well...