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January 04, 2007
Compromise and Cooperation?
Is it possible? Will President Bush support the Democrats this year? Will he acutally work with the new leadership in the Senate and the house? Read the article below from the Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com and ask, is this one of the big stories of 2006--Bush working with Democrats to get things done? Stuart James sjames139@comcast.net
Bush Signals Budget Accord
New Plan to Mirror Democrats' Goals
By Peter Baker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, January 4, 2007; Page A01
President Bush promised yesterday to produce a plan to balance the federal budget in five years and challenged lawmakers to slash their special pet projects in half next year, embracing priorities of the new Democratic leadership that will assume control of Congress today.
Appearing in the Rose Garden with his Cabinet, Bush said he has been encouraged by meetings with Democrats and thinks they can reach common ground on spending issues that have bitterly divided them for six years. He said that the budget proposal he will make Feb. 5 will erase the deficit by 2012, and he called on Congress "to end the dead-of-the-night" process in which earmarks are slipped into spending bills.
| By sjames | 06:06 AM