| On Inauguration Day, January 20, 2001, President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard Cheney went to work. The centerpiece of their agenda was an unprecedented $1.6 trillion tax cut that took Congress by surprise. The magnitude of the cut caught even House Speaker Dennis Hastert off balance. The Cheney-Bush strategy behind the cut was to preempt the Congress on every issue. It would tame any resistance to a radical agenda |



