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Ivins, Molly | June 18, 2001 issue

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The larger meaning of U.S. Senator Jim Jeffords' defection is that, in a single stroke, he cut through the smoke and spin manufactured by U.S. President George W. Bush's White House to obscure the radical nature of its right-wing agenda and rang the gong on those media suck-ups who compliantly portrayed this new President as the moderate middle. The senator's action even obliquely rebuked Democrats for the limpness of their opposition. Thus, Jeffords effectively resolved the dissonance between the establishment version of business as usual in Washington and what citizens at large are perceiving with growing alarm and anger. People distant from Washington, it turns out, were not wrong about Bush.

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JEFFORDS, Jim; BUSH, George W. (George Walker), 1946-; PRESIDENTS -- United States; WHITE House (Washington, D.C.); WASHINGTON (D.C.); UNITED States
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