Bad Max: it's a tempting story line that Sen. Max Baucus has to cast all those pro-Bush votes because of pressure back home in Montana. It's just not true.(Dispatches)
American Prospect, The, February, 2004 by Yglesias, Matthew
OBSERVERS MARVELING AT PRESIDENT George W. Bush's ability to push a radical agenda through a closely divided Congress have tended to attribute the administration's success to the impressive party discipline within the Republican congressional caucus. And impressive it is--both historically and, especially, in comparison to the anarchic behavior of the Democrats during the same period.
Nevertheless, the Bush agenda of steep tax cuts, large spending increases targeted mainly at friendly corporate interests and aggressive militarism has provoked a steady stream of defections from ...
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