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...Turn the tax cut into a crisis response. Take the smartest things about Toomey's $2.2 trillion monster - namely, its speed - and blend it with the best of the Democratic objections over fiscal sanity. Let the Senate moderates have their written-in "trigger," or "mid-course correction," however they want to name it (Bush ought to know there'll be one of those in November 2004 anyway) and back-load the debt repayment instead of the tax cuts...
...hold molten magma and hot gases in check. This could send up the volatile mix and cause an eruption. Several towns are built on top of Rainier's ancient flows--and lie in the path of new ones that would follow. Luckily, though, the slowly rising magma would likely trigger steam explosions, giving scientists ample warning. A quake can also trigger huge landslides, sending enormous slabs of boulders and clay downhill as fast as a speeding train. Fortunately, the region has had a relatively dry winter; otherwise, say experts, Rainier might already have shed part of its normally waterlogged skin...
...FREEH's FBI had failed to use a standard counterintelligence technique known as mail cover on the Russian spook who ran Hanssen. The technique involves photographing a known spy handler's mail to look for hints of whom he is running. Leads, like the false return addresses Hanssen used, trigger an investigation. The FBI's failure to use mail cover might have killed another man's career, but nobody surfs the crest of scandal like Freeh. By the time he was done with his would-be minders on the Hill last Wednesday, they were jockeying to throw money...
...Bush's tax cut comes with a congressional diet. So would Tom Daschle's, albeit a higher-calorie one. A trigger, meanwhile, would be little more than a license...
...Remember, those surplus projections come with a diet too. The CBO's rosy forecasts lowballed economic growth and productivity enough to put them on pretty firm ground. What trigger proponents are saying is that the third component of the projections - growth in discretionary spending - was hopelessly optimistic, and they can't be trusted to stick...