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To: Kenya AA who wrote (50)	12/5/2000 10:24:24 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 84

W's a uniter, not a divider. Also the compassionate conservative and the reformer with results. I got nothing against W personally, but as near as I can tell all his handlers are pretty hard core partisan conservatives, as is the Republican congressional leadership. If Bush can actually build anything like a coalition government in that environment, I will be impressed. Cheers, Dan.

To: Kenya AA who wrote (50)	12/5/2000 12:34:50 PM
From: Mao II	Respond to of 84

K: My personal belief is that consensus will be very difficult to achieve for two reasons. First, there will be a cloud over this election and a substantial number of people will continue to believe that Bush tricked and schemed and lawyered and whined his way into the White House. Secondly, the Republican leadership in Congress is dominated by right-wing ideologues. Clinton, thanks to his political skills, has kept them in a box and compromised with the moderates. Bush will have to find a way to neutralize the DeLays and the Armeys if he expects to reach across the aisle in a meaningful way. If he cannot do that, he;s toast. (And we probably are too.) M2 PS Bush has some kind of rep for bipartisanship, but that;s a far different thing in Texas.

To: Kenya AA who wrote (50)	12/9/2000 7:32:38 AM
From: Mao II	Respond to of 84

K: Now that the recounts are beginning again, thanks to the Fla SUp Ct, I thought it would be useful to have a more precise identification of the Republican thugs who will be swaggering across Fla from county to county over the next few days. Here is a list of those from Washington who've been identified plus a link to a picture of them in a quieter moment of "protest". M2 1. Tom Pyle, policy analyst, office of House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Tex.). 2. Garry Malphrus, majority chief counsel and staff director, House Judiciary subcommittee on criminal justice. 3. Rory Cooper, political division staff member at the National Republican Congressional Committee. 4. Kevin Smith, former House Republican conference analyst and more recently of Voter.com. 5. Steven Brophy, former aide to Sen. Fred D. Thompson (R-Tenn.), now working at the consulting firm KPMG. 6. Matt Schlapp, former chief of staff for Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-Kan.), now on the Bush campaign staff in Austin. 7. Roger Morse, aide to Rep. Van Hilleary (R-Tenn.). 8. Duane Gibson, aide to Chairman Don Young (R-Alaska) of the House Resources Committee. 9. Chuck Royal, legislative assistant to Rep. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.). 10. Layna McConkey, former legislative assistant to former Rep. Jim Ross Lightfoot (R-Iowa), now at Steelman Health Strategies. (see below) washingtonpost.com