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...next year. Bush cut taxes repeatedly during his first term and counts it as one of his biggest accomplishments. He's not going to raise them unless he has no other choice, and even if he wanted to, more conservative Republicans in the state house of representatives have sworn it will never pass. Another revenue option on the table is allowing electronic gambling machines at racetracks and jai alai stadiums, where gambling already goes on. But it's not a reliable cash source, and who wants to campaign for national office as the governor who brought video slot machines...
...remote so he could hear what Boschwitz had to say. Angry that a Wellstone memorial service last week turned into a partisan political rally, Minnesota's unpredictable Gov. Jesse Ventura last Monday appointed independent Dean Berkley to fill Wellstone's seat until the senator-elect (Republican Norm Coleman) was sworn in next year. And Berkley wasn't telling anyone yet whether he'd side with the Democrats or the Republicans during his temporary duty...
...Chambliss, "were moving all the time" the past month, Lott told Cheney, and usually up. The two men turned to capturing the Senate next week. Talent "is on my list of people to call today," Lott told Cheney. "The minute he shows up here with his papers and gets sworn in, we're in the majority." But you can't assume Talent will get here before the lame duck ends, Lott warned Cheney. That's why Lott was working on Barkley...
...drug czar is ready for pro wrestling. He already has the name, and now he's got the prefight talk down cold. In every speech he makes in Nevada, where Bush appointee John Walters has traveled to fight an initiative that would legalize marijuana, he calls out his three sworn enemies as if he were Tupac Shakur. The czar has a problem with billionaire philanthropists George Soros, Peter Lewis and John Sperling, who have bankrolled the pro-pot movement, and he wants everyone to know he's ready for battle. At an Elks lodge meeting in Las Vegas, he ticks...
Whoever is sworn in on Jan. 3, 2003, will have a tough time living up to Wellstone's contrarian act. No other member of the Senate was on the losing side of so many 99-to-1 or 98-to-2 votes, and none voted more consistently against the Bush Administration, according to the Congressional Quarterly. But Wellstone was not merely obstreperous. Born to Russian-Jewish immigrants, he was encouraged by his father, a frustrated playwright and essayist who spoke 10 languages and worked for the U.S. Information Agency under Edward R. Murrow, to live a life that merged intellectual...