Word: pruning
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...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...
...started to prune the apple trees on a day of pure, frigid clarity, the snow crusted and dazzling. The sun is still too far in the south, but beginning to think, I hope, of spring. The trees are so old that no one around here can identify the kind of apples they bear - not especially apple-shaped, but resembling ancient gnomes, or a leprechaun's collection of shrunken heads. A meager harvest. The deer eat them, but we do not. We're hoping to bring the orchard back. We pruned one tree last year so radically that it was more...
...imagines the exile will last long. You can prune Bill Clinton down to a stump and he rises every time from his own ruins. It's happened many times before, it's his motif - death and resurrection. He turns up like Tom Sawyer at his own funeral. "Coriolanus," being a tragedy, had to end in the protagonist's death. Clinton is incapable of tragedy. What he needs is a new project...
...contrast, when I look at Bush's senior staff (and I do mean senior), all I can think is "shuffleboard at 3, prune juice cocktails at 4 and dinner at 5." Most look like retirement-age males, including the women. The one exception to this rule is Larry Lindsey, who, bearing a strange resemblance to Jabba the Hut, really belongs in Clinton's cabinet. For the most part we do not yet know Bush's people yet, and so we are not yet entirely comfortable with them. And until we get to know Bush's team better, we will miss...
...going to require some rule-bending - the big picture is what counts. Bush closer Barry Richard reminded the Florida high court that they were above all judges, and that the Gore team was asking them to "step into the shoes of both the legislative and executive branches" and prune the law to fit the needs of the moment...