Word: bipartisanism
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...needed to get to know each other." The admiral was taken aback when the White House contacted him about the job two weeks ago. He agreed to take it only after he was satisfied that Clinton was personally committed to building a strong, forward-looking national-security policy with bipartisan support. Though impressed by Clinton, Inman still hesitated until his old friend "Chris," as Inman calls Secretary of State Warren Christopher, stepped in with an appeal. When the deal was finally cut, the President was particularly pleased that word of Aspin's departure had not leaked. On Wednesday he remarked...
Complicating the equation is another promise that the President made in order to pass his budget plan: establishing a bipartisan commission on entitlement reform, led by Nebraska Democratic Senator Bob Kerrey and G.O.P. Senator John Danforth of Missouri. The tentative consensus within the White House leans toward dynamic inaction, waiting for the commission's report in May to test the political waters on paring entitlements. But that would still leave unresolved a ticklish problem: Where would the savings from entitlement reform go? Congress is awash with it's-the-deficit-stupid fervor, while the Administration covets new money...
...long ago, means testing was a notion embraced mostly by small political journals and policy wonks swimming in think tanks. But respectability came as the bipartisan cut-the-deficit Concord Coalition and investment banker Pete Peterson pushed schemes that would trim federal subsidies in gradual steps for families earning above about $40,000 a year. The new mood is reflected by Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman, who declared recently, "Means testing in selected areas is an idea whose time has come...
WASHINGTON -- Senators Bob Kerrey and John Danforth, co-chairs of the Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement Reform -- the group President Clinton agreed to back in order to win Democrat Kerrey's crucial vote on the budget -- appear set to pick Fred Goldberg, the IRS chief under Bush, as their executive director. Goldberg is an advocate of shifting federal taxes away from income to consumption, as are -- in a general way -- Danforth and Kerrey. This worries Clinton economic advisers. Having been singed already this year by a VAT scheme, they don't want the President to be associated with any similar proposals...
...able to get elected to public office but may not be able to get appointed to anything. It's just | ridiculous. And thoughtful people in both parties recognize it. I'm trying to think of a device we can employ next year to get a good, fresh bipartisan look at the whole appointments process...