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

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (332475)	12/22/2002 5:47:02 AM
From: E. T.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

The papers continue pursuing the fallout from Sen. Trent Lott's ill-chosen praise of Sen. Strom Thurmond. The NYT announces that with President Bush-ally Sen. Bill Frist about to become Republican leader in the Senate, Bush will have more power over Congress than any president since Johnson ("conferred excess power?"). The paper credits Bush with Frist's new appointment, saying with it, the president has "consolidated...a stunning degree of authority in the White House." The story then goes on to list all the potential reasons why actually Bush might have a tough time getting what he wants done--from an aggrieved Lott and his conservative allies refusing to work with the president to Frist balking at going along with the program in order to prove that he is not the administration's puppet. The WP says that it was Lott's fellow (traitors according to Cyberken) Southern senators who rose up against him. The senators were motivated by fear that Lott would harm the party as well as, the paper says, ambition. In what the paper calls a deciding moment in the run-up to Lott's resignation, Sen. George Allen (R-VA) called to tell him not to try to remain majority leader. The LAT guesses that one major focus in the Republican agenda under the influences of Bush and Frist will be formulating a conservative plan for health care. Republicans hope the plan, which could include tax credits to cover the uninsured and a proposal for restructuring Medicare, will narrow the gap voters perceive between Democrats and Republicans on health care.