George W. Bush is tired of Texas two-stepping around.
After weeks of handing out nicknames, showering Democrats with compliments and even inviting the Kennedy family over for a movie – he’s abandoned bipartisan badminton for a good old-fashioned game of political hardball. Democrats who just weeks earlier had been complementing him on his inclusive style – are now saying the era of bipartisanship is over before it began.
Having successfully rolled back the Clinton Administration’s regulations on repetitive stress injuries and jammed President Bush’s tax plan down the throats of the Democrats in the House, Republicans are ready to rumble. Democrats have realized they’re not in Kansas anymore and are steeling themselves for battle with George Bush, the new Wicked Witch of the right.
Guests: Newt Gingrich, former Republican Speaker of the House; Bob Kuttner, editor, The American Prospect; David Sanger, New York Times White House correspondent; Gail Chaddock, Christian Science Monitor Congressional correspondent.
Hosted by John Mcchesney
Guests:
Newt Gingrich, former Republican Speaker of the House;
Bob Kuttner, editor, The American Prospect
David Sanger, New York Times White House correspondent
Gail Chaddock, Christian Science Monitor Congressional correspondent.