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...there's a bonus in this for the President as well: if a close vote makes it to the floor of the Senate, Bush can allow most of the moderate Republican Senators who are up for re-election next year - Norm Coleman of Minnesota, John Sununu of New Hampshire and Gordon Smith of Oregon - to vote with the Democrats. That would permit endangered Republicans to strike an independent pose with voters and still enable Bush to sustain a veto in the House...
...With most of his rivals hitting the road in Iowa this weekend, Obama had New Hampshire relatively to himself. Climbing atop picnic tables yesterday in Sunapee to answer questions, he pounded on New Hampshire Senators John Sununu and Judd Gregg, both Republicans, for expressing doubts about Bush's so-called "surge" plan in Iraq, yet refusing to vote against it this past week in the Senate...
Usually, Institute of Politics Director Jeanne Shaheen is the one trying to persuade out-of-work politicians to return to the podium. Now, national political leaders are courting her. Shaheen met recently with Democratic campaign leaders to discuss a possible 2008 run against Republican Sen. John E. Sununu, her former rival in an unsuccessful 2002 Senate bid, The New Hampshire Union Leader reported this week. If she decides to run, the race could immediately become one of the 2008 cycle’s marquee Senate races. But Shaheen, the former governor of New Hampshire who came to Harvard...
Even close families have favored sons and daughters. Rove has that status with Bush, which may explain why, in the official explanation of what had happened, he emerged the least tainted. A little less firmly, Bush also stood by Gonzales, even as Senator John Sununu (R.-N.H.) joined Democratic calls for his resignation...
...Leahy, the incoming Judiciary chairman, is doing his part. In addition to the hearings, he and the ranking minority leader, Arlen Specter, have introduced a bill that would roll back Bush's habeas-overriding powers. Leahy, Wisconsin's Russ Feingold, and New Hampshire conservative John Sununu today will introduce a bill that would require executive branch agencies regularly to report on data mining efforts. On the record, Harry Reid's office is nominally supportive of these efforts. "The new Congress will review all aspects of the war on terror to see what improvements are needed," says Reid spokesman, Jim Manley...