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...Republican problem is more direct. "The GOP simply has to change the perception that it's the impeachment party," says Dickerson. That unpopular image is a much harder noose to slip out of, and one that will take all the political talent that GOP leaders can muster. "The Republican party," says Dickerson, "needs to quickly hammer out a post-impeachment agenda and start lining up achievements in Congress." Policy activism, however, is also the strategy that the Democrats need to pursue. That battle could make for yet another nasty partisan fight. So what else...
When preparing for such a wide range of foes, things are bound to slip through the cracks...
...past few weeks the Microsoft trial had been in danger of slipping out of the public eye. Its endless procession of less-than-riveting economics professors and forgetful executives, mixed with scads of legal and technical split hairs, just hasn?t made for gripping headlines. But on Tuesday the government?s point man, David Boies, suggested in court that a videotape offered as evidence by Microsoft had been altered, and as soon as Bill Gates?s team had wriggled out from under that one, yet more doubts about the tape cropped up. Did Microsoft really try to slip faked evidence...
...wife PATRICIA DUFF should fill the void. Duff wants $100,000 a month for the couple's daughter Caleigh, 4. Duff already gets $12,000 a month for Caleigh and $1.5 million a year for herself. But Perelman, reportedly worth $6 billion, let his bid for sympathy slip away when he took the stand and said it takes only "about $3" a day to feed the child when she's with him. (Her menu: pasta, cereal and chicken fingers.) The next day he clarified his remarks, saying he actually spends $1,000 a day on her. Over to you, Patricia...
Stick around politics long enough and odds are you'll let something slip out that offends someone. Jesse Jackson took a lot of heat for calling New York "Hymietown," and former agriculture secretary Earl Butz's notorious remark correlating black people's ambitions with loose shoes, among other things, deservedly cost him his job. But what if the statement in question was offensive only to people who misunderstood its meaning? Just ask David Howard, a former aide to Washington, D.C., mayor Anthony Williams, who had to resign for using a word that was mistakenly considered to be racist...