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...signed the No Child Left Behind Act into law last January, President Bush stood beside Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy in a public-school gymnasium and boasted of a bipartisan coup. "You're seeing government at its best," said Bush of the historic education legislation. "We figured out how to put our parties aside and focus on what's right for the American children." A year later, that focus is faltering. Kennedy, a prime sponsor of the bill, boycotted the East Room ceremony marking the law's anniversary because of a lack of resources for the legislation. Meanwhile, Democratic presidential hopefuls...
...DOUGLAS DILLON, 93, well-connected Wall Street financier, diplomat and lifelong Republican who served as Treasury Secretary under two Democratic Presidents (Kennedy and Johnson) and ambassador to France under a Republican (Eisenhower); in New York City. Dillon was an Under Secretary of State when he was tapped to lend bipartisan heft to J.F.K.'s Cabinet. At Treasury he advocated successfully for free trade and tax cuts and spearheaded Kennedy's economic-development program in Latin America. Although he was born to wealth and influence (he was the scion of the international banking house Dillon, Read & Co. and enjoyed close ties...
...plan survives its first wave of criticism as a brazen Reaganomic boondoggle, it may turn out to have a thick political skin. The marginal-rate cuts, as Bush will point out in every speech from now until spring, were already passed by Congress once (with bipartisan support, no less); why not start enjoying them now? The increases in child-care credits and marriage-penalty relief (not to mention, and Bush will, the immediate dropping of the 15 percent tax bracket to 10 percent) offer something for every hard-working middle-class family of swing voters. And the elimination...
...work closely with Democrats, or to compromise. And as far as the right wing of the GOP is concerned, that's just fine. For moderates, however, and even for President Bush, Nickles' tendency for intractability could mean more fruitless standoffs with Democrats - catastrophe, in other words, for the bipartisan spirit. Nickles' record - for drilling in ANWR, vehemently opposed to all types of abortion EM] is solidly pro-growth and anti-government intrusion. In other words, he would have no trouble filling Lott's seat at the table...
...bipartisan slam, Stewart called Republicans “brilliantly evil,” quickly adding, “Democrats, by the way, are tragically pathetic...