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A Thoroughly Discredited Congress Gets Ready for Christmas

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A Thoroughly Discredited Congress Gets Ready for Christmas

Jim Freeman
Dec 13, 2007
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Democrats Bow to Bush's Demands in House Spending Bill

Billions Trimmed From New Requests

  By Jonathan Weisman Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, December 13, 2007; Page A03

House Democratic leaders yesterday agreed to meet President Bush's bottom-line spending limit on a sprawling, half-trillion-dollar domestic spending bill, dropping their demands for as much as $22 billion in additional spending but vowing to shift funds from the president's priorities to theirs.

. . . The agreement signaled that congressional Democrats are ready to give in to many of the White House's demands as they try to finish the session before they break for Christmas -- a political victory for the president, who has refused to compromise on the spending measures.

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Swept away. In a mudslide of congressional fear and with moral purpose and election promises caving in around their grasping little ears, Congress has just pun…

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