Word: lets
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...following. He's the most effective leader in Congress on the nuts and bolts. You want him on your team." Austin hopes DeLay will fall into line behind Bush's agenda, which, after all, isn't exactly McGovernite. But the Bush camp doesn't know how far DeLay will let them go in accommodating moderates before he bolts--and takes his following with...
Bush also learned to let go of things he couldn't control. In Texas, aides say, he was used to managing a relatively small staff and dealing with a press corps whose members he got to know personally. The size of his campaign operation and the unpredictability of the national press corps rattled Bush at first. Early on, when asked if he had ever used illegal drugs, Bush refused to answer. Then when he was hit with a series of cleverly posed questions about whether he could have cleared White House background checks, he didn't know how to handle...
...Let there be a little national triage, fix the broke ones, and we'll continue to have the same mottled, strange and wonderful nation of polling booths we have now. We'll have pulled up our tail end, but we'll still have lots of character where things aren't going wrong, and lots of money not spent...
...Let Election Day be a national holiday. It should be a day of contemplation and choice, not running out on your lunch break in the rain. Yes, some people will take the day off, and play hooky from the polls. So be it. The inspired will vote if they want to matter, just like always...
...Let sleeping voters lie. The Democrats learned first-hand in Florida that turnout isn't everything. Thorough "get out the vote" drives produced record turnout thanks to first time voters, many of whom found themselves either fallen through the system's large cracks or somehow bewildered by the instructions that told them to punch through the cardboard and pick out the chad so the machine can read their vote...