Word: surpluses
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...dwindling surplus and the ailing economy and the gathering tax-cut rematch weren't enough, George W. Bush just got handed another ticking time bomb...
...environment is not likely to get much better. The fall months will be consumed by a massive budget fight where the president and his party will be trying to protect their priorities and limit spending. The surplus is shrinking slightly, and with the Democrats in control of the Senate, there could be mean and close fights over the 13 appropriations bills that direct government check writers. Getting to the other side will require horse-trading and sweet-talking - and that will burn up political capital. Or, the president might have to wing out a veto or two, which will really...
...George Bush, shrinking government revenues isn't something you want to see just after you got Congress to pass a $1.3 trillion tax cut. During the budget debate, Democrats howled loud and long that the budget surplus projections W. was using to justify his tax cut were flaky. The tax revenues wouldn't pan out, particularly if the economy soured, they argued. With the economy now worsening and the revenue projections dropping, Democrats plan to remind the White House of this "all the time," says a senior aide with the House Democratic leadership. "It's a big problem for Republicans...
...really going to start basing social policy on the assumption that a few embryonic cells equal a human being? If so, restricting research on discarded embryos is an odd place to start. Why not restrict fertility clinics, which routinely produce more embryos than they need and destroy the surplus? To pursue the gruesome Holocaust analogy, it's like outlawing the lampshades while ignoring the gas chambers. And yet President Bush is not searching for compromise on the issue of fertility clinics because there is no such issue. The Roman Catholic Church and others are publicly opposed to high-tech fertilization...
...industry and baseball; the other dropped out of college and laid oil pipes out West. Neither speaks too much, preferring action to words. Hobbies? Fly-fishing, with little talking; walking on the ranch. An energy crisis? Drill for more oil. A teaching failure? Test 'em. A surplus? Give it back to the people...