He also thinks that Mr Musharraf should be weakened politically but not eliminated at once.
A third suggested the restoration of ethics in the curriculum, eliminated "when politically correct things came into play".
In one of the more politically charged items, he eliminated $7.5 million for women's health clinics, the subject of a battle with Democrats that has lasted more than a year.
Despite the fiscal downsides to tax expenditures, they are politically difficult to eliminate.
This is politically astute, since eliminating the tax benefits that have a substantive budget impact would mean eliminating things voters love, like the mortgage-tax deduction.
The Bush administration was yesterday accused of systemic tampering with the work of government climate scientists to eliminate politically inconvenient material about global warming.
Recent banking reforms, he added, are aimed at reducing politically oriented loans, eliminating loan quotas and adopting more commercially oriented criteria for lending.
House Democrats dislike the Senate health bill and do not want to vote for it without an assurance that the Senate will pass the budget reconciliation bill to eliminate politically unpopular provisions, like one giving Nebraska extra Medicaid money.
Anwar's arrest was widely seen at home and abroad as politically motivated to eliminate any threats to the ruling coalition, whose popularity has been eroding since 2008 after more than five decades of unquestioned dominance.
A weird president, mentored by a fundamentalist Ayatollah, may now use ongoing arrests to eliminate, politically if not physically, his reform opposition and then govern by repression.
However, it is the case that in one state, Georgia, the universal pre-K program was created precisely because it was feared that the state's targeted preschool program was politically vulnerable and would be eliminated.
