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...realities of the congressional schedule have started snapping into focus, so has Bush's message. Fading fast is the once-dominant sales pitch about his plan being the road to economic recovery. (Bush will find the argument handier as he pushes for speedy part-by-part passage, starting with the nonnegotiable - according to Bush - across-the-board cuts, because it remains a convenient way to woo crossover Democrats.) But the emphasis is clearly back on passing a cut for that classic Republican reason: "Giving the people their money back...
...need to strike a few bargains like the death-tax repeal to get them to cross the aisle (and Gephardt). But to move the big numbers, like $1.6 trillion, you've gotta move the masses. And he may just do so. Daschle's and Gephardt's 2001 pitch - charts, graphs and Jon Corzine - doesn't look likely to turn many heads...
...pitch would be to cover the courtyard with a glass roof and make it a student theater space. The area is certainly big enough to be used that way, and if University architects can make the ancient University Hall handicapped accessible on all of its floors, they can figure out a way to make this space into a theater...
...Trent Lott and Denny Hastert's placard, meanwhile, said "Tax Relief for Everyone," and the pair leaned heavily on Bush's "the average working family gets $1,600" pitch. The plan, of course, has something for every conservative Republican - across-the-board cuts for the tax-code ideologues, marriage-penalty reductions and per-child and charitable expansions for the social conservatives - and Hastert and Lott seem quite content to pass the thing...
...with palm trees and shrubs. But they overlook a big, ugly sandy patch dominated by a concrete structure overlooking the "Square of Martyrs." It had been intended as a fountain cascading the waters of Ghaddafi's unfinished "Great Man-Made River Project"; instead it serves as a dusty soccer pitch for young boys who play late into the night...