There can be no side agendas, no additional interests," the statement read, using an abbreviation for board of governors.
He's pouring on the crowd-pleasing charm on his current tour, a funky dance party with a few side agendas (like mocking major labels and praising God); he romps through oldies alongside a few new songs and ones fans may have missed.
"Whichever party ends up forming the new government, the decision making process will likely be hampered by a government without a clear mandate and with parties still jostling for political survival and various side agendas.
This means going beyond the limited supply-side agenda of 1980s market liberalism which has bequeathed precarious foundations.
But this supply-side agenda fails to acknowledge the lack of local demand in poor communities, a factor that is getting worse because of the global recession.
Instead, a crisis of a different sort seemed to blindside, and frustrate, the president's economic advisers as the war progressed: Mr. Bush's proposed $726 billion tax cut, his prescription for the economy's stubborn weakness, was shrinking before their eyes, a victim mainly of a rebellion by a few Republicans in the Senate who declined to go along with his supply-side agenda.
There is also what some see as the racially tilted side-agenda of the cluster plan: To lure back into the school system the whites, and in general the working and middle classes of all races, who have fled it in such prodigious numbers.
Two places and five points separate the two sides and bragging rights will very much be on each side's agenda.
But Mr. Fleischer rarely provides the news media with any more insight or guidance than is necessary to advance his side's agenda.
Some members of both parties are holding out hope that the budget surplus will be so big -- and that the political imperative to bring some concrete accomplishments home to voters will overcome the impulse to block the other side's agenda -- that there will be room for compromise on a variety of issues.
