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...smart and sensible politics. Remember the tax-cut fight in March? Democrats saw that Bush's plan - conceived in sunnier economic times long before it actually hit Congress - had nothing in it to address the current malaise. They hit the ground screaming for $60 billion in immediate stimulus, hoping to paint Bush as an out-of-touch ideologue who, for all his talk, couldn't be bothered to address what was actually going on America that...
...that charge "faintly bizarre," and he's right - not only did this slowdown take root last fall, but Bush has done little more than tell it like it is, and understate it at that. But it's just as bizarre a contention that Bush's plan, conceived under much sunnier economic skies, can do anything about consumer spending this year or next. And having apparently made the political decision that his tax relief isn't saleable on purely moral grounds, Bush might want to reconsider matching his message to his medicine...
...been on the force for 23 years, seven of those in narcotics. He has the tough, dour demeanor of someone who knows how bad it can get out there. Villalobos, 14 years with the police, worked gangs and sex crimes before coming to homicide but has a more empathetic, sunnier approach to life. "Brian is very intense, I do the softer approach. We feed off each other real well," says Villalobos...
...only thing that might rouse Greenspan now is - you guessed it - Florida. If the current election madness lasts long enough to put the financial markets in a serious slide, there's a possibility Greenspan will intervene with a rate cut that would put worriers in a sunnier mood. He did it in the fall of 1998, when the Asian crisis-cum-Long Term Capital fiasco was threatening to ruin his boom, and he'll be tempted to do it again if Al Gore and George W. Bush's lawyers start to do the same...
...only thing that might rouse Greenspan now is - you guessed it - Florida. If the current election madness lasts long enough to put the financial markets in a serious slide, there's a possibility Greenspan will intervene with a rate cut that would put worriers in a sunnier mood. He did it in the fall of 1998, when the Asian crisis-cum-Long Term Capital fiasco was threatening to ruin his boom, and he'll be tempted to do it again if Al Gore and George W. Bush's lawyers start to do the same...