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...right," says Neil A. Cooper '91, the president of College Democrats of Massachusetts. "It helps us across the state when Republican groups take such extreme positions. When you have a political party, you have to build coalitions and compromise. We're going to attract Jesse Jackson liberals and Lloyd Bentsen conservatives. Anderson's going to alienate people who would otherwise support...
Some legislators accused Bush of going soft on Japan. Senate Democrat Lloyd Bentsen called the decision a "serious mistake" that could "poison the well," meaning Congress might be less likely to approve the Administration's future trade agreements with Eastern Europe and new rules being negotiated in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. House majority leader Richard Gephardt was just as opposed: "At the very moment when we're beginning to see signs of tangible progress, the Administration seems to be saying it's time to back up and back...
...these days Yepsen looks out over the rolling fields greening in the spring sun and sees nothing. "Strangely quiet," he says. Last October, Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen showed up and added his weight to a notably leaden fund raiser. A couple of months ago, Colorado's voluble Congresswoman Pat Schroeder came around for two eminently forgettable speeches at Drake and Iowa universities. Since then nary a candidate...
...Democrats must run somebody -- and they will. Not long ago, a retired Senator walked into the office of Robert Strauss, former Democratic chairman, and urged him to announce his candidacy. Strauss, 71, declared himself too old. The prominent whisper now is that the Democrats should field the soothingly sensible Bentsen as a sacrificial lamb and put Kerrey beside him to position the Nebraskan for the big Quayle bash in '96. Trouble is that neither Bentsen nor Kerrey has said he would go along with the plan. It may be a while before Dave Yepsen sees anything on his far horizons...
...policy of excluding women. But Senator Sam Nunn has until now preferred working on his golf handicap rather than his electoral one. By resigning last week the Georgia Democrat appeared to be teeing up for a presidential race in 1992. Of course, he can always follow in Lloyd Bentsen's cleats and rejoin his old club if he loses...