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...Optimistic Republicans love to call it "the political power of a big idea": Do it big, bold, and above all now, and voters will be so taken with the spectacle of their government actually doing something both dramatic and coherent that they'll simply shrug at the fiscal implications and hope for the best down the road. And if $670 billion is maybe a little pricey for the Senate (that dividend cut is already looking like a sacrificial lamb), and the plan lands on the President's desk somewhat smaller than when it left it, at least Bush will...
...every chance. It's hard to tell her exact speed, since the speedometer is broken. The needle swings between 70 and 100 m.p.h., even when she's braking. Every now and then, Rowley pounds the dashboard above the gauges. "This is what Ross does," she says with a shrug...
...home say they can see in Trent her cheerful toughness and her obsessive tidiness. Lott's wife, the former Tricia Thompson, was the oldest of six children and says she "didn't keep house the way Trent was used to." Even in Washington, she once said with a shrug, he vacuums the house "because he doesn't like the way I do it." Lott also re-irons his shirts to get rid of the little wrinkles they pick up on the way back from the cleaners...
...cannot understand how it is that a nation that prides itself on its ability to solve any problem...is just able to look at the statistics and shrug its shoulders, Stinson said...
...Gore is best positioned for a postelection bounce, Gephardt and Daschle appear the most bloodied. The day after the election, when reality set in, Daschle conceded he had to carry the blame for Democratic losses in the Senate. "I can't shrug it," he said. "I can't shirk it." Sources say he will probably abandon a presidential run and focus on being Senate minority leader. As House minority leader, Gephardt spent most of the past decade trying to make up the 52-seat loss to Republicans suffered in 1994. "I've been consumed," he told TIME...