So I guess the

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So I guess the Bush strategy is to do the best they can getting a bill out of the Senate – whatever compromises Bush needs to make to get 51 votes. Then the repubs will take the bill into conference and rewrite it like they want. And then they’ll bring it back and figure that pretty few of those Republican Senate moderates have the guts to vote against Bush’s bill when it comes to an up or down vote. This is what I hear from a very astute conservative in DC. It could work.

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