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Graham, DeMint disagree on bailout; others wait, see |
WASHINGTON — Once again, Republican U.S. Sens. Jim DeMint and Lindsey Graham find themselves on opposite sides of a major issue.DeMint took to the national airwaves Wednesday to denounce the Bush administration’s financial-services bailout.Graham defended the $700 billion rescue plan as a necessary evil to avert financial catastrophe.On a day when President Bush pitched the proposal in a prime-time address and his top economic aides blitzed Capitol Hill, other lawmakers in South Carolina and beyond waited for the dust to settle before staking out a position.“The government cannot manage this much money effectively without inefficiencies and corruption,” DeMint said on NBC’s “Today” show. “The government broke it. I don’t trust them to fix it.”
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