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...might be leaking such bits of information as they were over the actual tidbits. D'Amato and Senate Banking Committee chairman Donald Riegle, a Michigan Democrat, both called for an ethics committee inquiry into the leaks, which is not the sort of thing that resonates loudly outside the Beltway. The hearings themselves, though, if nothing else, should serve as a kind of training camp in which both sides warm up and test themes to use in the eventual main event: the post-Fiske probe into just what happened in Arkansas...
...political instincts of a country parson. His involvement in several notable White House debacles, including the travel-office uproar, the extended search for an Attorney General and the choice of an easily targeted Lani Guinier for a top Justice Department post, earned him the reputation of a Beltway naif and worse. Until last week the most serious charges against him involved his actions after the apparent suicide last year of White House lawyer Vincent Foster, when Nussbaum interfered in investigators' attempts to examine Foster's office and removed some records, including files pertaining to Whitewater. It was an odd notion...
...major plans that have been in the news were put forth by President Clinton and Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tennessee), another Rhodes Scholar but Harvard Law graduate. Other plans have made the rounds of the beltway, and aspects of plans have made the rounds of the beltway, and aspects of plans from Hawaii, other states and Canada have been considered. The Clinton and Cooper plans, however, have received the most broad-based support and appear to have the greatest chances of being enacted. But these plans have serious financial side effects that must be considered...
...second secret trait of the Clintonites, arrogance, might be more precisely defined as the arrogance of lawyers, especially those trained in the Ivy League and working inside the Beltway. Lawyers are paid to put deals together. Restructuring the American health industry may be bigger than ingesting Paramount, but once you give a lawyer the assignment, all the rest is commentary. If a couple dozen lawyers can't handle this, then what good are their fancy educations, and what good have they done by forsaking the even fancier jobs they might have held in the private sector? If the gargantuan project...
Twelve months later it is apparent that the "revolution" is over, if it even even began. The rhetoric of the campaigns has given way to the reality of the aftermath. The newcomers quickly joined the rank-and-file members of the Hill and soon learned the ways of "the Beltway." In their first six months in office, these "babes-in-the-woods" pulled in a record $8 million in campaign contributions. Perhaps they could teach lessons to the incumbents defeated...