Word: bipartisanship
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...materials, will hit the airwaves at 9:00 ET Monday morning. Republicans, naturally, want to convict the President in the court of public opinion, and Democrats -- well, Democrats would obviously like this whole thing to go back in the vault. Consequence: the statesmanship charade is off. "If this is bipartisanship, then the Taliban wins the medal for religious tolerance," Frank quipped after the vote. Hyde answered that the mostly party-line votes were "civil." "Yeah," retorted Frank. "Very civil and very partisan...
...Trent Lott has been bandying the idea about since March -- but with Clinton's speech proving less than satisfying for both sides, censure is gaining support in the President's own party. "Democrats like this," reports Branegan. "They see it as a way out, a show of bipartisanship that would put their disapproval on the record." And then, so the script goes, Clinton can make some more contrite comments and the country can move on. There's just one problem: Those in the GOP who are already calling for Clinton's resignation might simply ignore the censure -- and move ahead...
...suspicions -- at least publicly. "Sooner or later, terrorists will realize that America's differences end at the water's edge," said none other than Jesse Helms, "and that the United States' political leadership always has, and always will, stand united in the face of international terrorism." Nice to know bipartisanship is still out there somewhere...
...that ever since the tobacco bill went down--after the President assented to Republican amendment after Republican amendment, only to see the G.O.P. kill the whole package in the end--Clinton has lost his appetite for dealmaking. Says a Clinton strategist: "It really slapped down the forces for bipartisanship in the White House...
WASHINGTON: Yes, you'll still have to pay taxes. But Congress wants you to feel better about it -- and them. In an overwhelming show of lovable-issue bipartisanship, the Senate almost unanimously approved a $13 billion bill that aims to make the hated Internal Revenue Service a little more taxpayer friendly. President Clinton has promised to sign it, and the bill's jubilant coauthor, Senate Finance Committee chairman William Roth, promised "a new day for the American taxpayer." But FORTUNE Washington bureau chief Jeff Birnbaum sees a mostly empty gesture: "The vast majority of Americans won't feel any difference...