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...John Dingell scolded the White House for letting Big Oil get away with price gouging on the way to the pump and called on Bush to follow his own campaign advice and say to OPEC, "open up your spigots." Other Democrats stumped for further short-term measures - repeal "gas tax" to ease price pressures at the pump, and wholesale price caps on electricity to force California's energy market back into a more consumer-friendly balance...
...recent assaults on environmental protection, he insists that Gore would have been no better. The president killed tougher standards for arsenic in drinking water, but the Clinton-Gore team only approved them after the election to "set up" Bush, Nader says. And while Gore might have vetoed Congress? repeal of job safety rules, he claims, the veto would have been overridden by conservatives in Congress. That?s far from certain. What is unequivocal is Nader?s newfound love of electoral politics. In next year?s Congressional elections, he hopes to field a slate of Green candidates in one- fifth...
...Bush, though they are not complaining. But Bush’s stands have not just surpassed conservatives’ expectations, they have, in some cases, broken campaign pledges, and this won’t fly. Voters know that Candidate Bush tread softly on abortion and promised not to repeal certain environment measures. Now there’s liberty and arsenic...
...will find that their $60 billion gambit just got added on to the top of Bush's serving. But Bush would still prefer this to be a bipartisan-smelling victory, and he'll need to give up more than Nelson's farm programs for that. Maybe the estate tax repeal, maybe the reduction in the top income-tax bracket, maybe the trigger...
...Back in the recent past, when Bush's vote count was stuck at 47, there was much talk of compromise. It was only last Tuesday that Bush was getting behind a retroactive cut, Larry Lindsey was putting death-tax repeal on the block to pay for it, and it looked as if Bush would use the economy as an excuse to let Lott do what he had to to get 10 Democrats on board...