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...moment of stunning authenticity, which roused a partisan audience - and a dozing press corps - at the end of a thoughtful, well-written drone. Poor Gephardt: put a microphone in front of him and he sounds like he's trying to climb the down escalator. He also has the coloring and demeanor of macaroni and cheese. Recently, he compared himself to a pair of old sneakers. This, believe it or not, is a strategy. In fact, it's probably a pretty smart strategy: Gephardt is attempting to fuse the two qualities that will be the most important in the coming presidential...
...galaxy" to devise a homeland-security system strong enough to protect every American. The White House points out that the $41 billion the Administration's current budget devotes to homeland security is double the amount spent on domestic defense programs before Sept. 11. But because of the partisan bickering that delayed the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, almost none of it has actually been spent. Democrats are accusing the White House of neglecting homeland security while it slashes taxes and takes up fights with enemies abroad. "How is it," says Oregon Senator Ron Wyden, "that we're asking...
...Senate Judiciary Committee stating that the release of their staff’s confidential memorandum to the Solicitor General would be unprecedented and severely damaging to the professionalism and efficacy of the office. The Times has also reported that the unsubstantiated canard being floated by one disgruntled and partisan former colleague criticizing the quality of Estrada’s work in the Solicitor’s General office was contradicted by Estrada’s chief, the Democratic Solicitor General at the time...
...General. He has also been given the highest rating by the American Bar Association. What the Senate Democrats regret is that they have been deprived of the opportunity to pick over the transcripts of such discussions for choice tidbits that they can take out of context and twist to partisan purposes. Estrada declined to play that game, but his refusal deprived no one of pertinent information...
...confirmation of Miguel A. Estrada, a Honduras-born 1986 graduate of Harvard Law School (HLS) whom President Bush nominated for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, has developed into a partisan showdown...