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...might have been intimidated by those three earlier heart attacks he?d suffered. But not Cheney - in the space of the last five years, he fearlessly gained 40 pounds, displaying a trencherman?s appetite for life and an admirable disdain for cardiologists and Surgeon Generals whining about moderation. And even after his pre-election heart scare, Cheney was seen in post-election/pre-concession Washington wolfing down fried chicken while those around him nibbled on mesclun. Food indulgence will be back big-time...
...Bush's defense is that he's only saying what the markets and the pundits have been saying for months, and he's right. The economy is slowing down, and even Alan Greenspan can't guarantee that a soft landing won't turn into a rocky one. As for White House complaints that recessionary warnings from a President-elect and his team (and a team without a lot of credibility on economic issues at that) can be self-fulfilling, well, that would appear to be a lot of hooey...
...these economic times, the only man with prophet status is Greenspan himself, and his verbal powers apply only to the markets (and even then not as much as they used to). As for the larger economy, one of the bones of contention between Greenspan and the first Bush was that Bush's Treasury people thought the Fed chairman should be jawboning the economy, and Greenspan thought that was silly, and it's doubtful Father Greenback is worried about young Mr. Bush making the recession happen with a few holiday hints about being prepared for the worst...
...seem a little absurd that Israeli and Palestinian negotiators are in Washington reprising the Camp David talks even as their followers continue to shoot at one another back home. Not least to the negotiators themselves, it appears, following reports that the suits on both sides almost came to blows in Thursday's session. But conventional wisdom holds that a peace deal with the Palestinians remains the key to Ehud Barak's chances of reelection, and that has encouraged an unlikely optimism among some observers of the talks. Still, the Israeli election on February 6 gives the talks...
...even as the negotiators parsed the fine print of the U.S. proposals Thursday, four more Palestinians and one Israeli were killed in clashes in the West Bank and Gaza. Attitudes on the Palestinian streets are hardening from indifference to the efforts of Arafat's negotiators to open hostility. He may not face a reelection battle as such, but the Palestinian leader is unable to entirely disregard Palestinian public opinion. Even in the best-case scenario, then, the talks in Washington may produce a document that will simply serve as a reminder of what might have been...