Reply #30: Unfortunately for Bush

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Senator Cochran (R-Mississippi) is going to be a giant pain in the ass for his plans. :)

Cochran, who has been in the Senate since 1976, and is the first Repub senator from Mississippi since Reconstruction, is a Dixiecrat at heart. Conservative on social issues, a little populist, and nationalistic -- he is NOT a neo-con. Remember, Cochran was Senator Lott's, the Jr. Senator from Mississippi, opposition for Majority Leader.

As head of the appropriations committee, any deal will have to go through him to get passed. Although he won't be a democrat by any stretch of the imagination, he will be much more interested in ending corporate welfare than agriculture subsidies. He will give the whitehouse some heartburn over the next four years.