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...company to manage terminals at major U.S. ports--has exploded into the sharpest and most bitter confrontation that Bush has had with his party. And it has hastened the declaration of independence toward which Republicans have been edging for months. "This is the tipping point," said a House leadership strategist. "No longer will Republicans sit idle when they have a difference with the President." A senior Senate aide spoke even more bluntly: "It's every man for himself...
...about 8 a.m. Sunday, a Cheney aide called strategist Mary Matalin, who regularly advises the Vice President. The aide read her a statement about the accident that Cheney had considered releasing before he decided to encourage Armstrong to go to the Caller-Times. But the statement "didn't say much of anything," Matalin says--not even that Cheney was the shooter. Matalin then spoke with a second aide and with Cheney's family and heard different versions of what had happened in the shooting. She decided no statement should be released amid the confusion. Matalin spoke with Cheney...
...basis of expected earnings this year, the 25 largest companies in the S&P 500 are cheaper than any other broad section of the market, says Stan Nabi, chief investment strategist at Silvercreek Asset Management: "They now have far more potential than risk." One of Nabi's favorites is Home Depot, whose profits have been soaring and should grow an additional 14% this year. Yet the company's shares sit 39% below their level of six years ago. Other depressed blue chips include Intel, Dell, J.P. Morgan, Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola, Verizon, Citigroup...
...Sources tell TIME that the Vice President and his staff had prepared an elliptical statement about a hunting accident and were considering releasing it on Sunday morning. But Mary Matalin, the well-known Republican strategist and former counselor to Cheney, said the statement "didn't say much of anything." She said she thought it "would have invited hysteria," and that "a fuller accounting, with an eyewitness" would be preferable. Matalin said she talked with a Cheney staff person around 8 or 9 a.m. Sunday, and talked with the Vice President shortly after that, and that his concern was "what...
...Vice President was the press strategist, and Karl Rove was the investigative reporter. Vice President Cheney overruled the advice of several members of the White House staff and insisted on sticking to a plan for releasing information about his hunting accident that resulted in a 20-hour, overnight delay in public confirmation of the startling incident, according to several Republican sources...