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To: LindyBill who wrote (4)	4/30/2003 5:49:53 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793928

"New York Times" Looks like a done deal here. Bill Frist has learned a lesson. April 30, 2003 Republican Leaders of Congress Say They Will Strike Deal on Tax Cut By CARL HULSE WASHINGTON, April 29 Republican leaders of Congress said today they were ready to put a budget feud to rest and strike a deal on a tax cut, with the Senate majority leader, Bill Frist, saying his objective now was to get the largest possible tax cut. "My goal is to grow that number as high as I possibly can," said Dr. Frist, who this month angered House Republicans by not telling them of a private Senate agreement to hold tax cuts to $350 billion while the House was approving $550 billion. Senator Frist, of Tennessee, said today he had apologized to his counterparts in the House and was ready to move on. "The big mistake, lesson learned, is no surprises," said Dr. Frist, who met in the White House this evening with President Bush and the House speaker, Representative J. Dennis Hastert of Illinois, to map legislative strategy before another White House meeting with the Republican leadership of Congress on Wednesday. nytimes.com

To: LindyBill who wrote (4)	4/30/2003 10:22:53 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793928

ABC News has apparently saved the nine Democratic presidential candidates from the embarrassment of holding their South Carolina debate in a theater named after a staunch defender of slavery. A tried and true game. The Reps try to lambast the Dems for scheduling a debate in a theater named after a civil war figure while they continue to do their wink and a nod to racism. (Is this comment too heated for this forum, Bill?) If there were ever a fight about nothing, this one is. If you wish to do anything in the south, have debates, give speeches, whatever, without running into the fact that much of it is named after southern civil war figures. Who cares if debates are held in such places. Anyone who has ever hung out on US college campuses for any length of time knows that dorms, classroom buildings, lecture halls are sometimes named after racist bigots, zenophobes, and misogynists. Some of them had the money. Some of them are/were folk of the elite. It's always a great pleasure to have a dramatically feminist meeting in a hall named after some of the worst of these. So, my recommendation to the Dems. Have the debate in the Longstreet Hall. But make certain to offer seriously critical thoughts about Longstreet and, more importantly, his heritage.