Word: scandalized
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...leave the impression that Thursday's vote had no relevance for the November election. "No matter who the majority leader is, things are going to get done," says Carl Forti, spokesman for the National Republican Campaign Committee. But other insiders were less sanguine about the prospects in November. "Scandal trumps all," said one senior Republican aide, "that's the problem." Democrats, for their part, are happy with the outcome. As Rahm Emanuel, head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, put it, "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss...
Buffeted by Katrina, the CIA leak and Iraq, Bush was teetering on the edge of irrelevance after a largely wasted 2005. But he found his voice in an improbable place: at the center of what looked like a serious scandal. Bush had personally tried to keep the New York Times from revealing the existence of a White House--authorized program to tap calls coming into and going out of the U.S. without a warrant if they involved a suspected terrorist, and just last week he told the Wall Street Journal, "I'm sorry we're talking about...
...Sideswiped by Livedoor's crash, shares in other merger-hungry firms like Rakuten, Softbank and Yahoo! Japan are still down between 9% and 15%, even though nobody has suggested they did anything illegal. But with the broader Nikkei 225 stock index almost fully recovered from the scandal, there's a sense that the speculative euphoria in Japan is still alive and frothing. After the previous decade of disappointing financial returns in Japan, no one-not the bankers, the investors or even the regulators-has much inclination to believe that Livedoor is anything but an isolated case, or much motivation...
...campaign priorities. The long-mooted set of initiatives, which includes stringent controls over lobbying and government appointments and stricter limits on campaign contributions, could be tabled fairly quickly in the new House of Commons, which may begin sitting in mid-March. Given the lingering anger over the sponsorship scandal, says former Reform Party leader Preston Manning, "I can't see anybody in that Parliament voting against that in principle." The bill's final form, though, will have to take into account the recommendations in Justice John Gomery's second report, due this week--a point reiterated by Harper...
...contended for the leadership of two parties. Some, meanwhile, have dramatically stepped aside. Former Deputy Prime Minister John Manley bowed out publicly in a Jan. 26 Globe and Mail Op-Ed piece, while declaring that the party must, "with humility, acknowledge the breach of trust" caused by the sponsorship scandal...