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Rebel conservative Republicans and Senate Democrats handed George W. Bush a major defeat Friday, but GOP officials insist it will end up backfiring in next year's mid-term elections. Despite intense pressure from the White House and Senate Republican leadership to extend for 4 to 10 years parts of the USA Patriot Act that are due to expire at the end of the month and make other parts permanent, civil-liberty-minded opponents of the bill brought it down Friday by sustaining a filibuster. Revelations in Friday's New York Times that the White House had secretly authorized...
...Policy (cap), but only if "the larger anomaly" of big agricultural subsidies was changed, too. The French, the biggest beneficiaries and fiercest defenders of the cap, have insisted they're not open to further discussion on reducing subsidies, not now or in 2008, when Britain hopes to secure a mid-term review of spending priorities. Indeed, the biggest accomplishment Blair can claim is creating a ... BUDGETARY BROUHAHA On paper, the E.U. budget amounts to a meager sum, roughly 1% of the gross national income of all member states - substantially less than the annual €180 billion-plus they spend...
...screened for Limbaugh when he went to rehab. Franken also made pointed remarks against President Bush and the rest of his administration. “We’ve got to get rid of these guys,” Franken said. He said he even hopes that the mid-term 2006 elections will be a showcase for “subpoena power,” with voters punishing the Republicans for current scandals involving Tom DeLay and I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby. Referring to September 11 as Bush’s “little black...
...Even for Election Eve, Kilgore is unusually nervous. On Tuesday night, he will either be Governor-elect of the Old Dominion, one of the nation's most reliably Republican states, or poster boy for his national party's woes heading into next year's mid-term elections. "We can't even win in Virginia?" Republicans will be asking themselves if the former state attorney general does not pull it out in his neck-and-neck race against the Democratic Lieutenant Governor, Timothy M. Kaine. "The conventional wisdom will be that the Republicans are on the verge of a massive meltdown...
...Tung's departure also gives Beijing flexibility over how much electoral reform to allow in Hong Kong. The Basic Law, the territory's constitution, says that the Chief Secretary becomes acting Chief Executive if the top post is vacated in mid-term, and that a new leader has to be chosen by the Election Committee within six months. The question?now hotly discussed by Hong Kong's many lawyers?is whether the new Chief Executive merely serves out the rest of Tung's term to 2007, or whether he gets a new five-year term...