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...Saying he is "troubled" by President Clinton's pardons, Attorney General John Ashcroft announces that the Justice Department will review its pardon procedures to ensure that crime victims and federal prosecutors are made aware of pardon or commutation applications. Meanwhile, pledging continued investigations into the pardons, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott says Congress must not "walk away" from the work left to be done...
...complicated than pets and baseball. It has never been completely domesticated by age and commercial calculation. One way that rock bands keep their distance from respectability these days is by shouting "F___" a few dozen times on every album. (Or even "I wanna f___ you like an animal," as Trent Reznor famously offered on one of his Nine Inch Nails albums.) Rock is still all tied up with sex and drugs, and it's a supremely subtle parent who can share all kinds of music with her kids without also seeming to endorse the troubling stuff. On this past...
...many voters. But layoffs, slipping economic indicators and a blessing from Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan made the idea credible--and now Washington can smell a big tax cut the way hogs smell slop. Politicians are scrambling to the trough. Some of their schemes are well-intended--Senate majority leader Trent Lott wants to change the alternative minimum tax so it doesn't take such a big bite out of middle-class taxpayers--but all of them threaten to grow the beast. Lott's plan would bring Bush's plan to $1.8 trillion; House majority leader Dick Armey would inflate...
...many voters. But layoffs, slipping economic indicators and a blessing from Fed chairman Alan Greenspan made the idea credible - and now Washington can smell a big tax cut the way hogs smell slop. Politicians are scrambling to the trough. Some of their schemes are well-intended - Senate majority leader Trent Lott wants to change the alternative minimum tax so it doesn't take such a big bite out of middle-class taxpayers - but all of them threaten to grow the beast. Lott's plan would bring Bush's plan to $1.8 trillion; House majority leader Dick Armey would inflate...
...theory, it is. But the way Bush and Trent Lott see it, it's really a spending trigger - just a built-in excuse for more government spending down the road, until there's no tax cut at all. Conservative Republicans are pretty adamant about this money, that once it's taken off the table for tax cuts, it stays off the table...