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...markets stabilization package to the floor without a majority of House Republicans on board. With constituent telephone calls to congressional offices running 100 to 1 against the proposed $700 billion Bush Administration bailout plan, the last thing Pelosi wants to do is force her own members to walk the plank for the proposal without a significant amount of company (and cover) from the other side of the aisle. But hours after Congressional Republicans and Democrats announced the outlines of a deal on Thursday afternoon, House Republicans made clear at the White House gathering with John McCain, Barack Obama and President...
...exception that looked like it might break this Democratic cohesiveness was a midsummer debate over the abortion plank in the party platform - always a particularly touchy issue but even more so in light of the continuing anger of so many female Clinton supporters over the primary campaign. After more than a decade of getting walloped by Republicans over votes against the so-called partial-birth abortion ban and now the Born Alive Act (which says that if a fetus survives an attempted abortion medical care must be used to save it), some Democrats have been exploring a new political...
...carry their babies to term - that get at the root causes of abortion. To make this shift easier for abortion-rights advocates to swallow, Dems have beefed up the party's full-throated support of the Roe v. Wade decision. The negotiations seem to have paid off - the abortion plank has been hailed by both pro-life and pro-choice Democrats as an important step forward...
...Hussein. When al-Libi insisted that he “knew nothing,” he found himself locked in a tiny cage for over 80 hours and then beaten for 15 minutes. Suddenly, he found reason to link Iraq to Al Qaeda, a lie that provided the central plank in the Bush administration’s case...
Still, at Under Armour's modest bricks-and-mortar headquarters on the Baltimore waterfront, it's pretty much all about the shoes. Plank and Peck are sitting at a table, talking kicks. "People know you're real when you're focused," Peck says, when asked if Under Armour's specialized trainers exclude a swath of potential customers--like weekend warriors and the average Joe who just wants something, anything, for the treadmill. Plank is preaching: The brand has proved itself in apparel and cleats and is ready for the next step. "We've paid our dues," he says. True...