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...Left Behind Act; he tilted the playing field toward the needs and desires of corporate America. He will have a tougher time getting his way in a second term because of the soaring budget and trade deficits--which, taken together, economists call the current-accounts deficit. "This is the trap door for the economy," says Robert Shapiro, a moderate Democratic economist. "We will soak up more than 80% of the world's savings to pay our deficits this year. That can't go on indefinitely...
...sniggering started when the Washington politocracy got a look at those 32 pages of debate rules. The candidates were going to have their time limits policed by lights and buzzers, like a couple of Jeopardy! contestants. What a trap the Bushies had laid for a windbag like Kerry. At 30 seconds left, a green light would come on; at 15, a yellow one; and with five seconds left, a red one. If a candidate repeatedly went over his allotted time, the moderator could start using the buzzer--and everyone knew which of the two was more likely to make that...
...remarks ratified the Bush message. In March, Kerry uttered what Bush adviser Karl Rove had called the most deadly phrase in politics: "I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it," said Kerry about his vote against supplemental funding for the war. The trap looked foolproof: If Kerry defended his vote, that would seem to be at odds with his four-day convention attack on the war. If he changed his position, he would undermine his convention's theme of strength. If he wiggled, the G.O.P. would use his running mate Edwards' devastating line during...
...White House Springs a Trap...
...President would have to tread carefully. Word went out from Air Force One that no one in the campaign or at G.O.P. headquarters was to make a political calculation within earshot of a reporter. While Bush spoke in Toledo in the late afternoon, his political aides discussed setting a trap for Kerry. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice briefed Bush throughout the day on the details of the tape, and Chase Untermeyer, the U.S. ambassador to Qatar, tried to persuade al-Jazeera not to run it. Once aides were sure the video was being aired, however, Bush wrote down some remarks...