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...Photo-op time. Before the plan had even arrived, Democratic leaders Dick Gephardt and Tom Daschle were camped out behind a podium bearing a placard that said "Bush Tax Plan: New Lexus for Every Millionaire." And behind the podium was a Lexus. And there was Gephardt doing political standup, insisting that under the President's plan, lower-income families would only be able to afford "the muffler...
...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...
...large placard in front of the common read, "This is the State of our Democracy," and decried "intimidation at polling stations," and missing ballots, both electoral irregularities alleged in recent news reports...
...Since May 1, these deft miniaturists - members of the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, which represents 135,000 actors - had been on strike against the advertisers and their agencies, for reasons too complex to fit on a placard. And they were finding that not only they but their cause remained unknown. "This isn't about the celebrities," Tim Robbins says. "It's about the 'second doctor from the right,' the people in the background shots - actors struggling to make a living." Just the problem: The strikers weren't famous, not even almost. What...
...that pervaded the police-protester interactions in Philadelphia. Belying this city's otherwise ultra-serene attitude, the LAPD, primed to a state of near-hysteria by repeated reports of brewing trouble, was ready with rubber bullets and tear gas, and when they descended on a huge crowd of rowdy placard-holders leaving a Rage Against the Machine concert across the street from the convention, it was clear there was going to be trouble...