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...make a statement and turn up the pressure on Jiang. But there were domestic political pressures at play as well. The White House was keen to show that Bush was in charge, setting the tone, weighing the options. Cheney would spend the week conspicuously busy on Capitol Hill, worrying about the budget. As for Rumsfeld and Powell, now playing tug-of-war with their second generation of Bush Presidents, it was the more moderate Powell who had the lead. "It's our air crew?they are military people," Pentagon spokesman Craig Quigley said. "But if you think of a military...
...skilled inside player, McCain realized he had been blindsided. He began to suspect that even Democrats who had voted with him, like Minority Leader Tom Daschle, were secretly against him. The next morning, as he boarded the little subway train that runs between the Senate office buildings and the Capitol, McCain was muttering, as much to himself as anyone, "Game face...
...Washington's seamy money culture. The Arizona Senator has just finished an event with a 1,500-lb. pig named Rootie, his accomplice in an annual unveiling of the pork hidden in the federal budget. Now he is tearing the wrong way up a one-way drive into the Capitol for a press conference with conservative Blue Dog Democrats supporting his effort to drive the pigs from the trough. After a decade of frustration, McCain's campaign-finance-reform bill will finally get its hearing on the Senate floor, without threat of filibuster, this week...
...Presumably this will free up O'Neill to think about more mundane matters like, say, the ailing U.S. economy, the looming Japanese meltdown and the fate of his boss' tax cut on Capitol Hill...
...smart politics for Bush to make sure that should the bill die on Capitol Hill, he has no fingerprints on the murder weapon. He also puts more pressure on lawmakers to do the deed themselves - which means the time for hugs and flowers may have passed. It's back to business as usual in the Senate...