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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Scumbria who wrote (142225)	5/3/2001 4:50:05 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

<<The 1993 deficit reduction Act cost his party the Congress.>> More revisionism: He had no idea. His people told him the public WANTED a tax increase and socialized medicine. He made some advisory changes after Nov. '94 (Stephanopoulos became "What's-His-Name").

To: Scumbria who wrote (142225)	5/3/2001 4:52:15 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

I think you attribute too much importance to the '93 Act. In any case, no one expected the Republicans to win the Congress. It is not a "tough stand" if the result is unforeseen. Haiti was never a big problem, and, in any case, it was a sop to the Black Caucus. Gays in the military was a simple political debt, which, if he had welched, would have cost him money in the next Presidential election cycle.........