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...domestic front, the President will work hard to make his tax cuts permanent and will probably now succeed. Legislation creating the Department of Homeland Security will probably pass as Democrats cut and run on the issue. Many in the party already blame the Cleland loss in Georgia on the Democratic leadership's inflexibility on that issue. White House aides say that Bush will now return to the issues of compassionate conservatism and community character-building that appeals to moderate voters and attempts to capture the spirit of national unity in the wake of the 9/11 attacks...
It’s sad that the politics of Congress has devolved to the party line, and the candidates’ names have become irrelevant. Yet, in this campaign season’s orgy of collective identity, voters cannot possibly succeed in discerning which of the candidates is a better human being and policymaker. With both the House and the Senate up for grabs, if voters cannot bear to check the box next to the name of a mindless automaton pretending to be a thinking candidate, they should look instead to the emblem of the one, residual difference of this...
Vitter was first elected in 1999 to succeed Rep. Bob Livingston, who stepped down from office because of his own previous extra-marital affairs during the time when Republicans were censuring President Clinton for sexual infidelities...
...think the owners and the employees know exactly what it takes to succeed in a college town,” he said...
...There is an unbelievable competitive element to college football, or any college sport for that matter, that can’t be experienced in any other setting,” Black says. “Sure, you might feel competition in whatever class to succeed, but its not the same as that primal feeling you get when teamed with 10 other guys trying to sustain a touchdown drive. So I guess on a very basic level I miss the sheer exhilaration of being part of the game...