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COLLEGE STATION -- House Speaker Dennis Hastert today blamed presidential hopefuls in the Senate for impeding President Bush's tax cut plan. "I think one of the things is we're going into the time of presidential politics," Hastert, R-Ill., said after a lecture at Texas A&M University. "You have four or five people who I'll call the prancing ponies of the Senate that all want to be a presidential candidate, or a wannabe. "It's to their advantage to not help this economy and have a bad economy going into a political year. I think it's shortsighted... I think it's politics, that's...