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...Americans give Bush high marks indeed for his handling of the war and the terror threat. But when it comes to domestic issues--the economy, health care, the budget deficit--his grades are middling, and Enron is reviving some of Bush's least favorite issues, such as campaign-finance reform, while stoking old questions about whose side he is on. With 45% of those surveyed predicting the recession is going to get worse, 51% said that Bush cares more about Big Business than he does about regular people--an ominous combination for the White House. And so last week Bush...
...Looking around for other things to Enronize, the Democrats turned next to campaign-finance reform. Last week the long-suffering backers of the Shays-Meehan bill to eliminate unregulated soft money finally attracted the 218th signature they needed to get the stalled measure onto the House floor. That doesn't mean it will pass at all, much less soon. The phrase "discharge petition" sounds encouraging but permits a vote only on certain Mondays. The House rarely, if ever, meets on Mondays. (Got that...
...planned to hit the road for two days selling his proposals to the public. Many are sure to be popular: more money for defense, intelligence gathering, homeland security and border controls and more tools for police and fire fighters. If Bush has had to shelve his plans to reform Medicare and Social Security--money is tight, and the country is in no mood to experiment with retirement benefits--that's not an entirely unpleasant outcome. Those waters are treacherous, and many wondered why he ever thought about diving...
...evidence of a Watkins-style letter from a downsized employee complaining of funny accounting at the now-bankrupt retailer - an internal investigation into its own books (by an outside auditor) and even forwarded the letter to the SEC. House members scared of their own coffers have forced campaign finance reform back onto the agenda. And Wall Street investors are suddenly very interested in old-fashioned notions like "cash flow" and "core business...
...vote in a Hamburg mayoral race recently for his new Law-and-Order Party, had threatened to field candidates nationwide if Merkel was the conservative choice, but not if Stoiber ran. Stoiber also takes a hard line on immigration, while Schröder has proposed a sweeping reform of immigration laws to allow more qualified foreign workers into the country. Voters have consistently shown themselves to be against increased immigration. If Stoiber should win, it could change the political climate in Europe. Along with Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian Prime Minister returned to power on a center-right ticket last year...