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...regional stability, of a sort, was ensured by U.S. support for extravagantly corrupt and brutal regimes. The high-speed, information-age propaganda and savagery of Osama bin Laden has changed all that, as has the careful provision of social services by groups like Hizballah and Hamas. If the status quo is no longer tenable, as was the case in the Palestinian territories, it's far better for Hamas to come to power via the ballot box than the gun. The election holds out the possibility of moderation-and also the possibility that the leaders of Hamas will come to learn...
...peace process itself. Speaking at a press conference this morning, President Bush called the Hamas win a ?wake-up? call for the Fatah leadership. "You see, when you give people the vote, give them the chance to express themselves at the polls and they're unhappy with the status quo, they'll let you know," he said. "The people are demanding honest government. The people want services. They want to be able to raise their children in an environment in which they can get a decent education and they can find health care. And so the elections should open...
...points the week before Bush's State of the Union address won't be nearly as easy as the Dems would like. Americans still hold Democrats nearly equally responsible for corruption in the capital, and at least a handful of Democrats are themselves implicated in the alleged quid pro quo deals that were Abramoff's confessed specialty. Reid himself took campaign money from Indian tribal clients of Abramoff just days before signing a letter to Interior Secretary Gale Norton urging blockage of a casino those same clients viewed as a competitor, a move which undercut the letter Reid sent...
...crunching one, was a bad choice for the job. A lot of people still think so. "Any insider is the wrong person to fix a Ford or a GM," argues a hedge-fund executive who is shorting Ford stock. "Insiders have too much of a connection to the status quo and the legacy of the company to make the tough decisions that are needed." Executives humored him but cringed when he announced he wanted to make his company environmentally friendly, long before Toyota's hybrid Prius became a household name. "I think that I was perceived perhaps as a Bolshevik...
...seeking to replace DeLay by running for majority leader as Mr. Clean, an outsider bent on shaking up the system that superlobbyist Jack Abramoff mastered and that then snarled him and, so far, mainly the Republican Party in scandal. "Boehner Outlines Plan for Reform, Renewal and Changing the Status Quo," blared a statement Boehner issued less than 48 hours after DeLay announced he would not seek re-election to the House's No. 2 post. "We're kind of stuck in neutral, and we need to renew ourselves," Boehner told TIME...