Word: tax-cutting
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...budget hit Congress and the speech reviews hit the papers; Bush's approval ratings, and the approval ratings for the tax cut, went up among the largely Republican viewers. Thursday, the budget was the major papers' top story of choice, and in the House, Republicans sprinted forward with the tax-cut ball...
Having been handed the tax-cut football by George W. Bush, House Republicans figure the best thing to do is to run with it - fast...
...Daschle has the votes to stall any tax-cut passage at least until the whole budget hits the floor, meaning that actual tax relief of any kind has no chance of hitting Bush's desk until April. And to get moderate Republicans and southern Democrats on board, Bush may have to give up something...
...deal In the end, Bush botched an inordinate number of those phrases, even for him. After that high note had been struck, one got the sense that Bush's brain had partially shut down, that he spent the last 10 minutes of the speech thinking about how well that tax-cut bit had gone over...
...that tax-cut argument about the dangers of paying off the debt too soon - and running scary $500 billion budget surpluses in 2005 and 2006 - still sounds a little fishy when you're talking about Washington politicians. But Bush has given his big sales speech, and hit the road on his five-state tour, and though the Democrats persisted on Wednesday in patting down Greenspan for soundbites, the $1.6 trillion baby is out of the Fed chairman's hands...