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IOWA DAILY REPORT
* QUOTABLE:
The news of
Bush's trip was not released until he was in the
air on the way back to the United States.
"If this breaks while we're in the air we're
turning around,"
White House communications director Dan Bartlett
told reporters on the flight to Baghdad, from
Associated Press story on President Bush’s
surprise visit to Iraq. “You cover the New
Hampshire primary every day and you get some
legitimate scoops ... and the only thing that gets
the attention is fun stuff like this, so you learn
about where people’s minds are.”
PoliticsNH.com’s
James Pindell, stated that the “Pick a First Lady
for Dennis Kucinich” contest that boosted his
site’s traffic from 10,000 hits a day to 160,000
at its peak. "There was no question
about the passage. The vote was not going to make
a difference in the outcome,"
said John Kerry
campaigning in Iowa about missing the final vote
on Medicare. "He was present for the
most critical vote,"
said Lieberman
spokeswoman Casey Aden-Wansbury about why
Lieberman campaigned in Arizona Tuesday rather
than vote on the Medicare bill. “My prediction is, the
big story next April or May will be, ‘What in the
world happened to Dean?’”
D’Amours said.
“They’re just carving
each other up,”
he said. “I’ve never seen anything more
effective than when they go at each other about
who did what 10 or 15 years ago. But the problem
I’m worried about is today, tomorrow, next year
and the future,”
said Wesley Clark about fellow candidates attacks
on each other. Clark said candidates who
reject the public financing system for their
campaigns reinforce the idea that money buys
influence --
reported in the Manchester Union Leader. "Americans believe that
gays and lesbians have a right to live as they
choose, but they don't have a right to redefine
marriage for our entire society,"
he says.
"Americans want our laws to send a positive
message to children about marriage, family and
their future,"
said Alliance for Marriage President Matt Daniels. "I am very impressed by
the resolve of the Afghan government, President
Karzai in particular,"
Hillary Clinton
said after meeting with Karzai at the presidential
palace. But surely an honest
definition of price controls would be "the
government telling a company how much it may
charge a third party," not "the government telling
a company how much it's willing to pay."
Chatterbox thought allowing the buyer to tell the
seller how much he's willing to pay was called
"capitalism." And historically, this very
arrangement has worked out just fine for, say,
defense contractors
-- writes
Timothy Noah in Slate about Kerry vs. Kerry and
having the government negotiate with drug
manufacturers.
* TODAY’S
OFFERINGS:
*Dean’s power play *Dean praises and criticizes
*Dean’s comments on the return of his brother’s
remains
*Clark off message *Clark’s Southern strategy
*Kerry’s backyard *New Hampshire begins in Iowa
*Kerry’s borrowing – Wife’s spending?
*Gephardt’s friends *Gephardt on Tonight show
*Lieberman declares goal of Energy independence
*Dates worked – Why not adoptions?
*A matter of faith *S. Carolina poll
*Bush visits Baghdad *More troops needed
*Private savings accounts for Social Security
*New York, New York
* CANDIDATES &
CAUCUSES: According to an Associated Press
story, Iowans will be seeing a lot fewer Christmas
ads on their televisions as the Howard Dean Mean
Machine buys up the air time to try an bury Dick
Gephardt. And you can bet if he is buying air time
at the rate of $400,000 to $500,000 over ten days
in Iowa that he is probably doing a mailing as
well. The average Iowa TV viewer could see Dean’s
commercials 18 times over 10 days. Gephardt’s campaign responded
that Dean is trying to "buy the Iowa caucuses"
with the new 60-second biographical ad slated to
start airing Monday throughout the state. Gephardt
is slated to spend less than half of that — about
$160,000 — during the same period. The ad presents the following
message, according to the
Associated press story:
The biographical ad shows Dean as a husband,
family doctor and lieutenant governor. It talks
about him taking classes at night to get into
medical school, working in an emergency room in
the Bronx with his wife, Judy, and becoming
governor "under the worst of circumstances" when
Gov. Richard Snelling died of a heart attack in
1991.
An announcer says that as governor, Dean "earned a
reputation as a maverick and independent by
turning a deficit into a surplus, creating jobs,
raising the minimum wage twice and balancing
budgets 11 years in a row." Polls show that Americans by a
wide margin believe their political leaders need
to use more spiritual references in their
speeches. Most believe that President Bush’s use
of New Testament references is appropriate. The
Democrat centrist agrees, according to the Post:
In a recent briefing for national, state and local
politicians, the centrist Democratic Leadership
Council cited Bush as a model for how to talk
about religion without offending voters. The DLC's
policy director, Ed Kilgore, told the audience
that "natural use of scriptural language and
allegories connects with people of faith," and he
urged them to "connect policies with religious
values." For example, they should talk about
"God's green Earth" when advocating environmental
policies, he said. Howard Dean released a statement
of praise for the Senate’s defeat of the energy
bill and blasted the Bush Administration in the
same release:
"I am relieved that the Senate rejected the Bush
administration's horrific energy bill this week,
and put the needs of future generations ahead of
the wants of a few corporate interests. We are in
desperate need of comprehensive energy
legislation, but this bill did nothing to protect
our economy, our security, our health, and our
environment. I hope that the Senate leadership
leaves this bill in the legislative graveyard
where it belongs, and comes back next year to
produce a bill that promotes a new energy economy
like the one I proposed last month.
"Unfortunately, this very public victory masks the
back-room defeats we faced this week. Without the
consent of Congress, the Bush administration moved
forward on three rules that will take our country
backwards.
"First we learned that the EPA is considering a
rule change that would allow low-level radioactive
material to be stored in ordinary landfills that
are designed only for industrial and chemical
waste, and municipal garbage. Then a federal judge
ruled in favor of the mining industry and approved
the Interior Department's regulation that allows
more mining on public lands. Finally, the Bush
administration plans to open 8.8 million acres of
the North Slope of Alaska to gas and oil
development. This development would put critical
ecosystems at risk and would encroach upon the
habitat of migratory birds, whales, and other
wildlife. If we had an energy economy based on
renewable resources and energy efficiency, we
would not need to even consider such a proposal
"Americans demand and deserve a President who acts
in their best interest, not one who writes law
solely on behalf of large corporate campaign
donors." Howard Dean issued the following
comments he intends to make at the Reparations
ceremony in Honolulu:
"I want to thank the United States military for
their efforts in helping to locate the remains of
my brother, Charlie Dean. At every turn, the Joint
POW/MIA Accounting Command and the U.S. military
have been accommodating and respectful of our
family's needs, and we're grateful for their
service to our family and to every other family
who has experienced a similar loss.
"This is an extraordinary thing they've done: I've
been on the site of five POW/MIA excavations where
they believe people are buried. It's very, very
difficult. It's very rare to recover the type of
remains that were recovered. The men and women in
the military that I visited with and stayed with
at base camp last year in Laos are extraordinary
human beings. This whole operation is a real
credit to the government and the U.S. military. My
family and I are deeply appreciative.
"This has been a long and emotional journey for my
mother, Jim, Bill and me. We greet this news with
mixed emotions but are gratified that we have
closure for this painful episode in our lives.
Charlie was a great brother, and he touched the
lives of everyone who knew him. I miss him every
single day, and I'll never stop being inspired by
his passion and idealism. While we are saddened
that he is not still with us, we are comforted by
the fact that he is finally coming home.
"I hope that the families of every POW/MIA are as
fortunate as we have been in locating their lost
loved ones. Based on my time in Southeast Asia
last year, I can tell you and all those families
that similar efforts are being made for every
American still missing from these Southeast Asian
wars. These are extraordinary steps our government
has taken to bring home every POW/MIA. On behalf
of myself and my family--thank you." Wesley Clark became roasted like
a Thanksgiving turkey after demonstrating, once
again, that he does not know how to maintain
continuity of message. Wesley Clark, campaigning
in New Hampshire, got off a zinger on a radio
station there when a radio interviewer jokingly
asked if he’d be interested in a ski competition
between candidates. "I didn't have as much
practice skiing as the governor did. He was out
there skiing when I was recovering from my wounds
in Vietnam," Clark told WNTK radio. This comment was in direct
conflict with what Clark is reported to have said
at a VFW hall in New Hampshire according to the
Manchester
Union Leader:
Trying to distance himself from Democratic rivals
bent on “carving each other up,” Wesley Clark said
yesterday he’d limit his slicing to his
Thanksgiving turkey. Dean's campaign condemned Clark
for the comment made as the former Vermont
governor was in Hawaii for the return of the
remains of an American, missing since the war,
whom Dean believes was his brother.
"This personal attack, especially on a day like
today for Governor Dean, is disturbingly
ruthless," said his spokeswoman, Tricia Enright. The Union Leader reports that
Clark didn’t mean the comments to be critical of
Dean:
“If anybody’s spent a year skiing, they’ve spent a
lot more time on the slopes than I have,” he said,
adding that it would be up to veterans to decide
what to make of Dean’s actions. Today’s Democrat candidates seem
to be trying to achieve a strategy that would deny
Howard Dean the nomination outright. Foremost
among these candidates is Welsey Clark. The matter of winning the
Presidential nomination is to get one vote over
half of the delegates to the Democrat National
Convention in Boston. You do not receive the
nomination unless you have a majority (50% plus
1). For decades now, candidates have won the
nomination outright. The last really good battle
was between Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan in
Kansas City in 1976 when Reagan’s campaign manager
John Sears convinced Reagan to name the liberal
Pennsylvania Sen. Richard Schweiker as his running
mate. The naming of Schweiker to the ticket was a
gamble to gain some undecided Pennsylvania
delegates to their side, thereby winning the
nomination. What happened was the reverse: A
handful of undecideds went for Ford, feeling that
Reagan sold out conservatives with the Schweiker
pick. Wes Clark believes that he can
take the South away from Howard Dean. However, it
will take more than Clark wrapping up the south.
Someone else has to win something big to stop Dean
-- states like Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan,
Ohio, or something big like New York, Texas or
California. There still remain questions as
to whether, when the rapid-fire elections take
place, Dean supporters’ enthusiasm will translate
into the election of delegates that will add up to
the necessary numbers. And, there is always the
additional problem of the super delegates who are
appointed to appease the old power brokers who
lost their power to this new process. For the Clark camp, there is
also the problem that Dick Gephardt may stop Dean
in Iowa and roll through the Midwest the way Clark
hopes to do in the South. There is also the
problem of Border state Gephardt (from Missouri)
and another true Southerner John Edwards (S.
Carolina) nibbling at the South’s delegates.
Clark’s strategy has many difficulties to
overcome. However, if anyone has a shot at
breaking up the “Dean Mean Machine’s” win power
play into a brokered convention it is the Clark
campaign with all it’s veteran Bill Clinton
advisors. Here is a story by
AFP concerning Clark’s wooing of the voters
with his Southern charm and four stars:
A recent Time-CNN survey found that if
presidential elections were held now, Clark would
fare best among the Democrat's top five contenders
against Bush, although he would still lose by a
49-42 percent margin.
Former Vermont governor Howard Dean front-runner
in the Democratic pack who opposed the Iraq war
from the outset and who is favored to win the New
Hampshire primary, came in second in the poll
against Bush with 52-39 percent. Clark's goal is
to take Dean's vote among middle-of-the-road
Democrats who consider the former governor too
left wing to beat Bush, the former general's
advisers said.
To achieve this, his campaign team is focusing on
primary races in the conservative south as the
main battleground.
We believe we'll do very well in the South in a
match up with Dean. Voters are looking for
leadership and they are looking for someone who
can win a general election," said Clark adviser
Chris Lehane, former spokesman to ex vice
president Al Gore A
Boston Globe story provides insight as to why
Sen. John Kerry is having trouble in his home
state, as seen through the view of two state
Democrat scions: The
Grossman family has been active in Massachusetts
and national Democratic circles for decades and
has helped raise millions for Democratic
candidates and causes. Jerome Grossman, a leader
of the peace movement since Cold War days and a
pioneer in grassroots political organizing,
supports Massachusetts Senator John F. Kerry in
his bid to be the Democratic presidential nominee.
His nephew, Steven Grossman, a former national and
state party chairman and unsuccessful
Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate, supports
former Vermont Governor Howard Dean. Sen. John Kerry has come to the
decision that the New Hampshire campaign begins in
Iowa, according to
the Boston Globe story:
The Massachusetts Democrat is bulking up his
political organization in Iowa, spending more time
campaigning in the state, and sustaining an
advertising blitz that began two weeks ago. His
redoubled efforts are designed to try to offset
the union support of Representative Richard A.
Gephardt of Missouri and the backing that antiwar
activists have given former Vermont governor
Howard Dean, who are running first and second in
recent polls, with Kerry in third place. In New
Hampshire, Dean has maintained a double-digit lead
over Kerry.
"I believe that the Iowa result will have a major
impact on the last eight days of the New Hampshire
campaign," said Jerry Crawford, a Des Moines
lawyer who serves as Kerry's Iowa campaign
chairman. "Dean has created enormous expectations
in Iowa. I think the expectation for his victory
here creates an enormous opportunity for us. We
have a great organization here and a candidate who
can exceed expectations. And that can have a great
impact on the psychology of the New Hampshire
voters." The
NY Times has a story that is as clear as Sen.
John Kerry’s financial disclosure about how Kerry
plans to fund his campaign. It also leaves us
guessing about what his wife plans to do. The Manchester
Union Leader reports on New Hampshire’s former
Congressman’s campaigning for Gephardt:
Former New Hampshire congressman Norman D’Amours
campaigned for Dick Gephardt yesterday, but said
he expected Howard Dean to win the state’s
Democratic Presidential primary.
“I am not predicting a loss,” D’Amours said, “but
I don’t think Dean can be stopped in New
Hampshire.”
He added that choosing Dean would be “the biggest
single mistake in New Hampshire.”
D’Amours predicted Gephardt would get the
Democratic nomination in the long run if he wins
the Iowa caucuses. Rep. Dick Gephardt will appear
on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" on Tuesday,
December 2, 2003. Other scheduled guests include
actress Naomi Watts and singer Phil Collins. Joe Lieberman promised to enact
as President a "Declaration of Energy
Independence" that would reduce U.S. dependence on
foreign oil by nearly two-thirds within 10 years
and help America kick its foreign oil habit
completely within 20 years. Lieberman's plan would
make America energy independent by tapping new
technologies, adopting flexible market-based
systems, and protecting our environment. Lieberman criticized President
Bush, saying the energy bill he and his allies
promote benefits lobbyists and special interests
but does next to nothing for the common good. The
bill not only halts all progress toward energy
independence, but also rescinds the renewable fuel
standard and climate change provisions passed by
the Senate -- both of which would have taken big
steps toward cleaner energy production. "This Administration is of, by,
and for the oil industry. They'd rather see
Halliburton profit than let hydrogen fulfill its
promise," Lieberman charged. "For George W. Bush
and the right-wingers he surrounds himself with,
'alternative fuel' means super unleaded gasoline." Speaking at the East Valley
Institute of Technology to a group of high school
students working on technology to convert cars to
run on hydrogen fuel, Lieberman said, "If we
harness the ingenuity of our people, we can
develop homegrown energy sources that will produce
high-paying new jobs, wean us off our unhealthy
addiction on foreign oil, and protect our
environment for future generations. We need to
start generating that energy and creating those
jobs now because innovation has been in
hibernation under George W. Bush's senseless
economic policies." To reach its goals, Lieberman's
"Declaration of Energy Independence" would employ
four basic principles: increasing energy
efficiency, making smarter use of our existing
resources, speeding the deployment of new clean
technologies, and protecting our environment. The
plan's highlights include:
MARKET-BASED APPROACH TO FUEL EFFICIENCY
INVESTS IN COAL'S POTENTIAL
SPEEDS DEVELOPMENT OF RENEWABLES
PROTECTS THE ENVIRONMENT Dennis Kucinich was so
successful in gaining romantic interest from the
opposite sex, why not try adoption? The adoptions
will not be legal formally but the Kucinich
campaign wants contributors to send in money to
support the campaign interns. A young lady’s picture ascribed
to be Amy K from Michigan has quotes under her
picture stating, "Adopt me if you care a lot about
the
youth outreach of this campaign and if you're
particularly interested in the Steps for Peace
walk across America." According to the Associated
Press, the 22-year-old from Ann Arbor, Mich.,
said, however, "it feels weird to have my face on
a presidential campaign… "But it's all in the
interest of getting a very important message out
there so I'm willing to do what it takes," she
said. One of the great American
divides is on the issues of faith versus
secularism. Polls have shown a growing
polarization with Democrats becoming increasingly
supported by secularist and Republicans by
religious believers. The differential between
these two groups has become noticeable and
significant in terms of electoral results. A
Washington Post story delves into the fringes
of this issue in exploring the reluctance of
Democrats to speak publicly about their faith:
Democrats "have been very hesitant to talk about
faith . . . and in doing so we have lost a
connection with a lot of people," said Sen. Joseph
I. Lieberman (Conn.), an Orthodox Jew and one of
only two candidates who frequently talk about God.
Long-shot candidate Al Sharpton, an ordained
minister, is the other. "Democrats ought to pay
attention to the fact that the two Democrats who
have been elected president since [Lyndon] Johnson
were Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton . . . and both
talked a lot about their faith," Lieberman said. The more realistic aspect for
the Democrats is to take the Religious left and
combine it with their growing secularist camp into
a new majority alignment. The Post article only
hints at this:
In some ways, Democrats see their opening revealed
in the philosophical splits dividing the Episcopal
and Catholic churches in the United States. On the
one side are conservative Christians who interpret
the Bible more literally and see abortion and
homosexuality as incompatible with scripture and,
therefore, incompatible with their political
views. This group leans strongly Republican,
pollsters say. On the other side are the millions
of Episcopalians who supported the confirmation of
an openly gay bishop in New Hampshire and
Catholics who support abortion rights. These
voters are considered very gettable for Democrats.
Al Gore narrowly won the Catholic vote in the 2000
election.
This is the camp the Democratic candidates mostly
fall into. In interviews, those candidates who
described themselves as Christians said
homosexuality and abortion are not sinful, and all
described the New Testament as focused on helping
the poor and needy. They mostly talked about it as
a broad guide of principles not to be taken too
literally. It is a very "different set of
teachings some in the more fundamentalist parts
talk about," said Rep. Richard A. Gephardt (Mo.),
a Baptist who once considered joining the
seminary. The Feldman Group Inc.'s polled
400 likely voters for the S. Carolina primary
showed Edwards with 17 percent and Sharpton with
12 percent. Twenty-two percent of those polled
were undecided. The new poll comes four weeks
after an American Research Group survey showed
retired Gen. Clark leading with 17 percent to
Edwards' 10 percent. More than a third of that
poll's respondents were undecided. Clark had 10
percent in the new Feldman Group Poll, in which 49
percent of the respondents were black, Feldman
Group President Diane Feldman said. Democrats here
expect blacks to account for about half of the
primary voters. Sharpton, who is black, led among
black voters; Edwards, who is white, was second
with that group, Feldman said. The rest of the
candidates received the following percentages:
Howard Dean – 11; Joe Lieberman – 9; Dick Gephardt
– 8; Carol Moseley Braun – 6; John Kerry – 5;
Dennis Kucinich -1.
* ON THE BUSH
BEAT: In a surprise move with
heightened security that included a ruse to the
media, President Bush sneaked out of Crawford, TX,
to fly to Baghdad, Iraq, today. "You are defending the American
people from danger and we are grateful," Bush told
some 600 soldiers who were stunned and delighted
by his appearance, according to the Associated
Press. Bush spent only about two hours
on the ground, limiting his visit to the airport
dinner with U.S. forces. The troops had been told
that the VIP guests would be L. Paul Bremer, the
U.S. administrator in Iraq, and Lt. Gen. Ricardo
Sanchez, commander of coalition forces in Iraq.
The
Fox News report on the President’s
Thanksgiving Holiday in Crawford, Texas, was still
running on its home page -- while it had news of
the President’s Baghdad visit as a “Breaking News”
story. The report stated that:
·
A senior administration official,
who spoke on condition of anonymity, confirmed
that Bush would call "a number of" soldiers. The
official did not provide specifics, but at least
one of the intended recipients of the president's
personal thanks is recovering in Germany
from injuries suffered in the Iraq war.
·
The president's twin daughters,
Barbara and Jenna, are visiting for the holiday,
as are his parents, former President George H.W.
Bush and his wife, Barbara.
·
On the table was to be a free-range
turkey, turkey cornbread dressing, chipotle sweet
potatoes, mashed potatoes, asparagus and a salad
of Texas grapefruit, toasted walnuts and greens,
White House spokeswoman Claire Buchan reported
Wednesday. Alongside the "Prairie Chapel pecan
pie" would be another classic dessert: pumpkin
pie, she said.
·
First Lady Laura Bush will receive
the official White House Christmas tree on Monday.
* THE CLINTON
COMEDIES: Hillary Clinton visited
Afghanistan on Thanksgiving and had Thanksgiving
Dinner with the troops. According to CNN Hillary
Clinton announced the U.S.’s resolve in
Afghanistan and called for more troops:
"The U.S. is resolved to stand as a strong partner
and to ensure that the terrorists, whoever they
are, wherever they come from, will be dealt with,"
Clinton told reporters in Kabul. "The message
should be: The Taliban terrorists are fighting a
losing battle."
Later, after enjoying Thanksgiving dinner with
U.S. troops at Bagram Air Base, just north of the
capital, Clinton said in an interview with The
Associated Press that more troops are needed to
defeat Taliban militants and provide the security
needed to rebuild the country. National Public Radio is adding
to the story that Clinton is stating the troops
don’t necessarily have to be U.S. troops.
* NATIONAL: Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley left
little doubt that the issue of private savings
accounts for Social Security is on the table,
according to a story in the Des Moines Register:
"I want to save Social Security," he said. "I want
my grandchildren to have as good a deal as I had."
The United States has few options to accomplish
that, Grassley said.
The choices include doubling Social Security taxes
or cutting benefits by a third. A better idea, he
said, would be to let workers invest one-sixth of
the money they're now contributing in Social
Security taxes.
Those voluntary investment accounts could wind up
yielding more benefits for workers than they would
see from the other five-sixths of their
contributions, he predicted.
"As Einstein said, "There's only one miracle in
the world - the miracle of compound interest," "
he said. There is trouble -- and I mean
Trouble -- in the “Big Apple” for
Republicans. Planning the Republican National
Convention in New York is becoming a difficult
proposition. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is miffed
at House Majority Leader Tom DeLay’s plan in which
2,200 conventioneers would stay on a luxury cruise
ship in New York Harbor. The LA Times reports that
the NY Mayor has criticized the proposal:
But Bloomberg has repeatedly denounced the idea,
saying it would draw badly needed business away
from the city's hotels and restaurants. The cruise
ship, the Norwegian Dawn, has 14 bars and 10
restaurants. Others have suggested that the notion
of keeping delegates safe is a slap in the face to
the New York Police Department, which is spending
millions to beef up convention security.
"We have 18,700-odd restaurants here, and every
single delegate to the convention can have their
own restaurant to go to. We also have plenty of
hotel rooms. It's a very safe city," the mayor
added. "This cruise ship plan is not good for the
people who work in the hotels, but I think we'll
win the capitalistic battle." There is some support of DeLay’s
cruise ship proposal, given some groups’ plan to
make this convention resemble the experience in
Miami in 1972:
Yet many New Yorkers have been deeply critical of
the Bush administration over the Iraq war, air
quality problems at ground zero and other issues,
and have announced plans to greet the Republicans
with massive demonstrations next summer. For
months, organizers have been planning activities,
including a huge march by Madison Square Garden
and subsequent rally in Central Park that some
think could draw as many as 1 million people. According to the LA Times, the
fundraising sweetener that a city brings any big
convention to its city may also be more difficult
due to Mayor Bloomberg’s action:
Bloomberg — joining forces with the New York City
Partnership, a nonprofit business and civic group
— announced an "informational" campaign, urging
donors to think twice about giving money to DeLay
and others whose legislative actions hurt New
York. There is a question of whether
Bloomberg is trying to raise his poll numbers. A
Quinnipiac University Poll released Tuesday finds
that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg faces
low approval ratings. According to the AP, the
poll shows that only 23 percent of New Yorkers
want Bloomberg re-elected in November 2005, while
62 percent want an alternative to the
Democrat-turned-Republican mayor. And CBS News
reports that it is even worse:
Adding insult to injury, the poll indicates that
61 percent of voters would not even want to share
Thanksgiving dinner with the mayor. “Well that’s
good,” responds Bloomberg, “because I have plans
with my family on Thursday, and while we have a
big table and we always have lots of people, I
don’t think we can have as many people as the
other 40 percent that do (support me).” So, whether DeLay does it his
way or not, we are sure to see whether the
Republicans or Bloomberg make it there so that
they can make it anywhere. Maybe, the whole thing
will just wind up being a turkey for both.
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