Word: centriste
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...campaign wish list, a solid House majority and a split-down-the-middle Senate. So he uses the bully pulpit and the House's Republican leadership to set the high bid - $1.6 trillion in tax cuts, 4-percent growth in discretionary spending - and in the Senate, let the centrist Democrats make the counteroffer. Bush takes his 55 votes and calls it a compromise...
...just for Democrats, or even the centrist ones that got Bush so close to his wish-list numbers so far. Sure, the Bush White House is brandishing his veto pen at anything that tops that 4.9 percent number, but it's not a magic wand, and at this stage, even the Republicans in charge don't sound convinced...
...Except it's not working. All the home-state visits from Bush and back-room offers from Dick Cheney couldn't keep Republican moderates like Jim Jeffords and Lincoln Chafee to the party line on that $1.6 trillion tax cut, and in the end centrist Democrats like John Breaux felt little need to consider crossing over to the White House's way of thinking. The centrists called the compromise, and Tom Daschle, merely by slicing off 25 percent, was able to claim a victory...
...argued that such decisions have steered towards a centrist position, and have at times disappointed conservative groups. This tendency, Hatch said, proves that "the Rehnquist Court is not a consistently conservative...
...people see the budget, they're going to say, 'Oh, my God, I wanted a tax cut, but I didn't know what you were going to do to health care and to Medicare and national defense,'" Breaux said on ABC's "This Week" Sunday. And he's a centrist - wait until Gephardt and Daschle put in their 10 cents...