Word: tax-cutting
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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...
...Democratic caucus weren't dragged anywhere - they just got outvoted. In this legislative season, it's centrists and other mavericks like John Breaux, Robert Torricelli, Ben Nelson and Zell Miller - all of whom were at the White House on Wednesday when Bush did his crowing about the tax-cut compromise - who get to prune Bush's agenda items as they see fit, and who will have an endless string of opportunities to be on the winning side of every major congressional stand...
...past week alone, while working on Bush's environmental makeover, Rove plotted strategy at meetings on how to proceed with health-care reform, stem-cell research and the tax-cut debate. He worked on recruiting candidates for office in two states and orchestrated the withdrawal of a candidate in a third. He attended a meeting with National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice to discuss policy toward Sudan, a country that persecutes Christians and is therefore of particular interest to evangelicals. And he helped conceive what the Bushies call the "Echo Chamber," a plan to use the media's obsession with marking...
...past week alone, while working on Bush's environmental makeover, Rove plotted strategy at meetings on how to proceed with health-care reform, stem-cell research and the tax-cut debate. He worked on recruiting candidates for office in two states and orchestrated the withdrawal of a candidate in a third. He attended a meeting with National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice to discuss policy toward Sudan, a country that persecutes Christians and is therefore of particular interest to evangelicals. And he helped conceive what the Bushies call the "Echo Chamber," a plan to use the media's obsession with marking...
...battle of amendments continued on Wednesday, Cheney stayed on the sidelines - and not because the White House was suddenly awash in converts. The Senate voted 53-47 in favor of an amendment by proposal by Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) to take $450 billion of tax-cut money and redirect $225 billion to federal education programs and another $225 billion to debt repayment...