<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7140123c-4930-409c-b773-8f1975619f3b/C5D64B02-AABE-4319-98EA-D778E4861CEE/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blog.washingtonpost.com/cheney/chapters/a_strong_push_from_back_stage/index.html" href="http://blog.washingtonpost.com/cheney/chapters/a_strong_push_from_back_stage/index.html" style="font-size: 11px;">blog.washingtonpost.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.washingtonpost.com/cheney/chapters/a_strong_push_from_back_stage/index.html"> the annual retreat of Republican House and Senate leaders. He had come to sell them on the economic centerpiece of President Bush's first term: a $674 billion tax cut.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.washingtonpost.com/cheney/chapters/a_strong_push_from_back_stage/index.html">Cheney had spent months making sure the package contained everything he wanted. One thing was missing.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.washingtonpost.com/cheney/chapters/a_strong_push_from_back_stage/index.html">The president had accepted Cheney's diagnosis that the sluggish economy needed a jolt, overruling senior economic advisers who forecast dangerous budget deficits. But Bush rejected one of Cheney's remedies: deep reductions in the capital gains tax on investments.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.washingtonpost.com/cheney/chapters/a_strong_push_from_back_stage/index.html"><P> a stock market battered by scandals such as Enron. House allies inserted Cheney's cut into their package. But that came at the expense of one of Bush's priorities: abolishing the tax on stock dividends.</p> <P>Cheney has changed history more than once, earning his reputation as the nation's most powerful vice president.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.washingtonpost.com/cheney/chapters/a_strong_push_from_back_stage/index.html"><DIV id="outerImageContainer"><DIV id="imageContainer"><IMG id="lightboxImage" src="http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2007/06/21/PH2007062101456.jpg" /><DIV id="hoverNav"><A id="prevLink" href="#"></A><A id="nextLink" href="#"></A></DIV><DIV id="loading"><A id="loadingLink" href="#"><IMG src="http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/interactives/citizenkstreet/lightbox/images/loading.gif" /></A></DIV></DIV></DIV><DIV id="imageDataContainer" class="clearfix"><DIV id="imageData"><DIV id="imageDetails"><SPAN id="caption">When the president </SPAN></DIV></DIV></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.washingtonpost.com/cheney/chapters/a_strong_push_from_back_stage/index.html"><DIV id="outerImageContainer"><DIV id="imageContainer"><IMG id="lightboxImage" src="http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2007/06/21/PH2007062101450.jpg" /><DIV id="hoverNav"><A id="prevLink" href="#"></A><A id="nextLink" href="#"></A></DIV><DIV id="loading"><A id="loadingLink" href="#"><IMG src="http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/interactives/citizenkstreet/lightbox/images/loading.gif" /></A></DIV></DIV></DIV><DIV id="imageDataContainer" class="clearfix"><DIV id="imageData"><DIV id="imageDetails"><SPAN id="caption">When Bush met with Alan Greenspan, Cheney was almost always present. Behind the scenes</SPAN></DIV></DIV></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C5D64B02-AABE-4319-98EA-D778E4861CEE/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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