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...their proposal, Bush adviser Karl Rove told allies that any trigger "is dead on arrival with this President." The Bushies argue that a tax cut without a guarantee would be useless in reviving the economy. "These tax cuts are important because people plan investment and savings on them," says Nebraska Republican Chuck Hagel. "If you're playing around with that, the uncertainty of that will withhold commitments of capital investments, which create productivity and jobs and tax revenues." Many Democrats aren't wild about triggers either--but for very different reasons. "My preference is to reduce the size...
...argue for his tax plan. Bush sees it as a variation on Ronald Reagan's strategy of going over the heads of Congress; Reagan's televised 1981 appeal for tax cuts flooded Capitol Hill with supportive phone calls and letters. But a week after Bush's visit to Nebraska, aides to Democratic Senator Ben Nelson say, the response to Bush was unremarkable--far fewer calls and e-mails, in fact, than the office got in January during the battle over John Ashcroft's Attorney General nomination. Daschle greeted Bush's arrival Thursday in South Dakota, Daschle's home state, with...
...senate for all of two months, but he knows what the George W. Bush treatment feels like. Not just the win-a-little-nickname treatment (Bush dubbed him Nellie) but a far more punishing one--the kind that can make a politician sweat. A Democrat and former Governor of Nebraska, Nelson was onstage with Bush at the Omaha Civic Center last Wednesday when the President set about tickling the crowd of almost 4,000. Pointing out both Nelson and his Republican colleague, Chuck Hagel, Bush declared, "I know that when it comes to doing the right thing, they'll listen...
Nellie, you're on your own. The Senator won his seat last fall by the narrowest margin in state history. Bush, who crushed Gore by 30 points in Nebraska, was sending a clear message: a vote against the tax cut would be a vote against a President who was more popular in Nebraska than Nelson. It might even be political suicide...
MARRIED. BOB KERREY, 57, former Nebraska Senator and bachelor for the past 22 years, and SARAH PALEY, 44, ex-Saturday Night Live writer; in New York City...