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What do these political voices have in common? They're not political--not in the "vote for my side and we'll do X, Y and Z for you" sense anyway. They don't emphasize the substantive matters that define one as liberal or conservative--tax policy or affirmative action or abortion. If you are reading or tuning in, your convictions are a given. What you want, apparently, is to be told--at Wagnerian volume and in Proustian detail--what a bunch of S.O.B.s the other guys...
...surprising for a man who ascended to the post after being in the Senate for only eight years, having spent his career as a surgeon and then earning millions of dollars from HCA Inc., a hospital chain his father and brother founded. Last April Frist publicly agreed to a tax-cut package that was $200 billion less than what House Republican leaders wanted. House Speaker Dennis Hastert was furious, and Frist spent weeks healing the rift. Republican Senators trying to push the initial energy bill through the Senate last June publicly griped that they couldn't build momentum behind...
...free-range pork tossed in. "This is classic machine politics, the sort of thing we used to do," said a prominent Democrat. Hence the Wall Street Journal's opposition to both bills. After all, Bush is running such huge deficits that they might imperil the prospect of endless tax cuts--and even "increase pressure to raise taxes to pay for" these new programs, the editors noted...
...already been done. One of the biggest embarrassments came in July when a national television network ran a videotape of Roh's personal secretary Yang Gil Seung cavorting in a sleazy nightclub south of Seoul with the club's owner?a man who has been under investigation for tax evasion, pimping and instigation of murder...
...Economic policymakers, trying to reduce their export-driven economy's dependence on the U.S., implemented measures that encouraged banks and card companies to increase lending to consumers. Anyone who ran up expenditures totaling more than 10% of his annual income on credit cards was granted a 20% income-tax deduction, and long-standing restrictions on cash advances were abolished. The situation was a bonanza for card companies and banks. Miniskirted girls peddled cards on street corners, offering free plush toys and kitchen knives to new applicants...