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In Fox News poll, President Bush earns 60 percent approval rating; 62 percent support military action to disarm Iraq and remove Saddam Hussein from power . . . Bush: “If the United Nations does not have the will or the courage to disarm Saddam Hussein, and if Saddam Hussein will not disarm for the sake of peace, for the sake of freedom, the United States will lead a coalition and disarm Saddam Hussein.” . . . Bush says Senate has “lousy record” on confirmations, adds: “The judicial confirmation process does not work as it should . . . Nominees are too often mistreated, votes are delayed, hearings are denied and dozens of federal judgeships sit empty.” . . . Of Bush’s 32 appeals-court nominees, Senate has confirmed only 14, and 15 have waited more than a year for hearing . . . Bush campaigns in Tennessee, which favored him in 2000 election despite being Al Gore’s home state: “I got a fond spot in my heart for Tennessee, if you know what I mean.” … In Zogby poll, 49 percent say Bush deserves reelection and 35 percent would support “someone new.” . . . Bush, in Georgia: “Let me give you fair warning, let me help you break the code of Washington, D.C. When you hear them say, ‘Oh, we might need to revisit the tax cuts,’ that means they’re fixing to get in your pocket.”

Newt Gingrich, on ABC: “In an ironic way, Senator Daschle, by becoming majority leader, took on a burden which cluttered him and which made it harder for him to offer a clean set of national proposals that people could focus on because it was too easy for the media to come back and just say to him, ‘Why aren’t you passing them if that’s what you believe in?’” . . . House minority leader Dick Gephardt on trying to win a majority, in New York Times: “You know, when I started this in ’95, I thought, ‘I’ll probably win the House back in one term; give me one term to win it back.’ It’s a lot harder than that. It is really hard.” . . . Boston is frontrunner to hold Democratic National Convention in 2004, says Crains In-sider, with Republicans looking at New Orleans, New York, and Tampa.

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In Fox News poll, President Bush earns 60 percent approval rating; 62 percent support military action to disarm Iraq and remove Saddam Hussein from power . . . Bush: “If the United Nations does not have the will or the courage to disarm Saddam Hussein, and if Saddam Hussein will not disarm for the sake of peace, for the sake of freedom, the United States will lead a coalition and disarm Saddam Hussein.” . . . Bush says Senate has “lousy record” on confirmations, adds: “The judicial confirmation process does not work as it should . . . Nominees are too often mistreated, votes are delayed, hearings are denied and dozens of federal judgeships sit empty.” . . . Of Bush’s 32 appeals-court nominees, Senate has confirmed only 14, and 15 have waited more than a year for hearing . . . Bush campaigns in Tennessee, which favored him in 2000 election despite being Al Gore’s home state: “I got a fond spot in my heart for Tennessee, if you know what I mean.” … In Zogby poll, 49 percent say Bush deserves reelection and 35 percent would support “someone new.” . . . Bush, in Georgia: “Let me give you fair warning, let me help you break the code of Washington, D.C. When you hear them say, ‘Oh, we might need to revisit the tax cuts,’ that means they’re fixing to get in your pocket.”

Newt Gingrich, on ABC: “In an ironic way, Senator Daschle, by becoming majority leader, took on a burden which cluttered him and which made it harder for him to offer a clean set of national proposals that people could focus on because it was too easy for the media to come back and just say to him, ‘Why aren’t you passing them if that’s what you believe in?’” . . . House minority leader Dick Gephardt on trying to win a majority, in New York Times: “You know, when I started this in ’95, I thought, ‘I’ll probably win the House back in one term; give me one term to win it back.’ It’s a lot harder than that. It is really hard.” . . . Boston is frontrunner to hold Democratic National Convention in 2004, says Crains In-sider, with Republicans looking at New Orleans, New York, and Tampa.