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...there were domestic political pressures at play as well. The White House was keen to show that Bush was in charge, setting the tone, weighing the options. Cheney would spend the week conspicuously busy on Capitol Hill, worrying about the budget. As for Rumsfeld and Powell, now playing tug-of-war with their second generation of Bush Presidents, it was the more moderate Powell who had the lead. "It's our air crew--they are military people," Pentagon spokesman Craig Quigley said. "But if you think of a military solution to this, that's not the way ahead...
...thousand years ago, the man in the middle of this potentially deadly tug-of-war was the high priest. The position, ritually paramount at the Temple, had been politically hobbled by Herod. Nonetheless, as head of the Sanhedrin, a Jewish religious and civic body, and a key participant at city council meetings, the officeholder still had great power and responsibility...
...Multiply this tug-of-war by oh, a hundred, and you get an idea of what Bush is up against. Republicans may want to roll back the Clinton years as badly as Bush, but they'll be a lot less eager to roll back the money the Clinton-era budgets sent their way. (Discretionary spending in fiscal 2001 alone was up 8.6 percent from the year before, and annual increases never dipped below 6 percent). And Democrats will be additionally eager to protect their purses, seeing in Bush's proposed curbs - from shaving $145 million off the $1 billion Clinton...
...there were domestic political pressures at play as well. The White House was keen to show that Bush was in charge, setting the tone, weighing the options. Cheney would spend the week conspicuously busy on Capitol Hill, worrying about the budget. As for Rumsfeld and Powell, now playing tug-of-war with their second generation of Bush presidents, it was the more moderate Powell who had the lead. "It's our air crew - they are military people," Pentagon spokesman Craig Quigley said. "But if you think of a military solution to this, that's not the way ahead...
...there were domestic political pressures at play as well. The White House was keen to show that Bush was in charge, setting the tone, weighing the options. Cheney would spend the week conspicuously busy on Capitol Hill, worrying about the budget. As for Rumsfeld and Powell, now playing tug-of-war with their second generation of Bush Presidents, it was the more moderate Powell who had the lead. "It's our air crew?they are military people," Pentagon spokesman Craig Quigley said. "But if you think of a military solution to this, that's not the way ahead...