GOP preps stage for Bush agenda

[Mr_Spock]

(der furor vants his agenda)

By Susan Milligan, Globe Staff | November 20, 2004

WASHINGTON -- With expanded majorities in both houses of Congress, Republican leaders are tightening the circle of power and sending warning signals to moderates and Democrats who might threaten the ambitious legislative agenda of the White House.

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Combined with President Bush's recent efforts to consolidate more executive-branch power in the hands of key loyalists, the GOP actions set the stage for an efficient legislative operation to process Bush administration objectives through Congress and then on to the White House for Bush's signature, analysts say.

''There is this kind of effort to convert the key policy-making institutions of government into one assembly line for the president's agenda," said Paul Light, a professor at New York University who specializes in government transitions. ''That's very unusual -- it's almost like running a large conglomerate when you have the CEO and the House and Senate as almost the manufacturing division."

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/11/20/gop_preps_stage_for_bush_agenda/

Stories like this make me sick to my stomach :puke:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. NY Times said today

that anti-abortion legislation is tied to the must-pass budget bill. They are starting to pay back the fundamentalists right now.

[arwalden]

2. Bush. Hitler. -- Hitler. Bush.

George Bush is our Adolph Hitler.

[Moderator]

3. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1007882