Washington Prowler
Shifting Times
Democrats consolidate — with White House help.
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, chose not to go on the campaign
trail to spread the word about the strong Bush Administration
economy, but that doesn’t mean he wasn’t traveling on the taxpayer
dime.
/p>
Lately he’s been to London and in December he intends to travel back to China, where he will participate in the first session of the Strategic Economic Dialogue.
This is a program he started, and which he had set up an all-Democrat, former Clinton Administration team to run it for him.
Some Republicans on Capitol Hill were upset by Paulson’s refusal to campaign on behalf of the Administration, but the White House went out of its way to protect him from too much criticism.
p> PERMANENT VACANCY br> One reason Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice isn’t pushing hard for a Deputy Secretary of State is that she’s happy working with former Clinton administration State spokesman Nicholas Burns , who serves in the number three slot at Foggy Bottom. /p>Much has been made that the position formerly held by Robert Zoellick remains unfilled, but the White House isn’t pushing very hard to fill the slot, in part because Rice has said that she works well with Burns.
Now that Democrats control the Senate, it would be far easier to slip Burns through the nomination process.
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