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...their credentials on national security and “values,” while also calling for a renewed commitment to health care, education, energy independence, and fiscal responsibility.Frost also said that he thought it best to wait until early 2006 to unveil a unified Democratic platform for the midterm elections.“I’m arguing for a practical party that can build on the mistakes of this administration and put together a platform that can win,” Frost said. “Let’s be ready to go with a program, early...
...other." What's left of the G.O.P. leadership, already beset by a raft of other political problems, was trying to figure out how to salvage the ambitious legislative agenda of more tax cuts, hurricane help and gas-price relief that they want to carry them to next year's midterm elections--a more difficult challenge with the sidelining of the man who had so determinedly pulled off many of their close victories...
...Safety for confirmation may not mean political safety for Republicans. The party's base of conservative supporters was already disillusioned because of the administration's record spending, and a hard-core pick might have rallied them ahead of next year's midterm elections. Instead, a conservative backlash built against Bush's choice all day, and Vice President Cheney phoned in to Rush Limbaugh's radio show to try to reassure the faithful. Limbaugh's first question pointed to "a lot of concern" among Bush supporters, and said there was "disappointment out there" and that some of his backers felt "depressed...
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...third move: Develop a new set of goals to announce after Katrina fades. Advisers are proceeding with plans to gin up base-conservative voters for next year's congressional midterm elections with a platform that probably will be focused around tax reform. Because Bush will need a dynamic salesman to make sure that initiative goes better than his Social Security proposal, advisers tell TIME there is once again talk of replacing Treasury Secretary John Snow. There are no plans to delay tax cuts to pay for the New Orleans reconstruction or the Iraq war, and Bush is likely to follow...