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...Zell Miller, a conservative maverick Democrat from Georgia, has been courted by Republicans practically from the day he was sworn in last January. Texas Republican Sen. Phil Gramm got Miller to sign onto George W. Bush's mega-tax cut, and, ever since, Gramm has been trying to sweet talk Miller into becoming a Republican. Press speculation became white hot several weeks ago that Miller was about to jump ship. The speculators apparently were ahead of Miller, who adamantly denies he was mulling a switch. "I don't want to talk about it!" Miller barked when I cornered him with...
...course Daschle and the left side of the Democratic caucus weren't dragged anywhere - they just got outvoted. In this legislative season, it's centrists and other mavericks like John Breaux, Robert Torricelli, Ben Nelson and Zell Miller - all of whom were at the White House on Wednesday when Bush did his crowing about the tax-cut compromise - who get to prune Bush's agenda items as they see fit, and who will have an endless string of opportunities to be on the winning side of every major congressional stand...
...starting point for any count is 50-50, with Georgia Democrat Zell Miller on board the Bush plan and Rhode Island Republican Lincoln Chafee siding with the Democrats. Enter the back-scratching: Vermont Republican Jim Jeffords says he could bolt if Republicans don't give him a $180 billion plan to fully fund the federal share of education programs; Nebraska Democrat Ben Nelson - as a narrowly elected red-state Democrat, a prime target for Bush blackmail - is talking to GOP leaders about farm programs. And Chafee may yet yield to the hard party sell: "The President feels strongly about...
...also fun watching audience members use their prominence to send not-so-subtle messages. Our own Senator John Kerry, clearly yearning to snatch any jobs in the Bush administration for token Democrats from current forerunners Zell Miller and John Breaux, not only applauded when other Democrats sat on their hands, but even gave several standing ovations. Across the aisle, Bush's cabinet tried to soften its image. John Ashcroft and Christine Todd Whitman applauded the end of racial profiling as if he hadn't spoken at Bob Jones University and she hadn't posed for pictures while smiling and frisking...
...Technically, they have the numbers. They're figuring that if the Republicans hold together they can pick up some votes among southern and conservative Democrats like Georgia senator Zell Miller, who's in favor of the plan...