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...most immediate target will be the Knafelcenter, but in the long term the most potentialfor backlash lies in Allston...
...Thankfully, elections are just around the corner. TIME business reporter Bernard Baumohl says that fear of a voter backlash -- always politics' most potent motivator -- may end up pushing Republicans into a compromise passage. "There has to be a point when Congress realizes that unless this money is released to the IMF, the world recession is going to engulf the U.S.," he says. "And that would leave the Republicans as the ones who allowed it to happen...
Among the public, only conservative Republicans seemed to want Clinton impeached, and though the G.O.P. continued to play to them with an eye to mobilizing turnout in the midterm elections, Democrats scoured the horizon for signs of a backlash against the G.O.P. Even in some Republican districts, constituent calls to congressional offices demanding Clinton's resignation or impeachment fell sharply. Gone was talk that leading Senate Democrats would soon be calling for his resignation. In the House more Democrats were willing to follow the White House strategy of blaming Republicans for rubbing America's nose in the mess. Even Representative...
...needs for justice from those who would have to bless it: the vengeful Republicans, the bitter Democrats, the rebellious Clinton, the righteous Ken Starr. And that wasn't very likely. The only glimmer of hope from the Republican side was coming from moderates who were worried about a backlash against the next ugly data dump, a spectacle that was sure to get worse this week. The party-line vote to release the videotape of Clinton's grand jury testimony gave Democrats their opening. Never mind that two-thirds of them had voted to release everything the week before. The minute...
...dismay -- refused. "The only way you get any movement in this process is by setting deadlines," says TIME correspondent Douglas Waller. "But the last time the U.S. set a deadline for the Israelis, it backfired on Clinton because he wasn't prepared to risk a backlash from pro-Israel interests in the U.S. So the real question remains whether the White House is prepared to force the two sides to make peace...