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...thing. "This was badly mishandled on both sides of Washington," says Calabresi. "The Republicans scheduled a vote and then tried but failed to find a way out. But the administration clearly hadn?t done nearly enough work to muster support for the treaty." Adds TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan, "It?s too bad that the President offered his most spirited defense of the treaty only after it had been defeated. If he?d done that earlier it might have helped sway some votes...
...sorely needs ?- and one that has $40 million to spend ?- the endorsement couldn?t have come at a better time. As in now. "Bill Bradley wasn?t really counting on getting the union vote anyway, but he was pushing hard for a delay," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "Because if the AFL-CIO convention had come and gone without the nod for Gore, it would have been a disaster. And it would have been more evidence for the perception that Gore?s just not electable...
...Workers both dissented, calling Sweeney?s dictum "a sod job" and citing southern-fried wisdom about weighing one?s pig before wrapping it. Which hardly means they were Bradley backers ? just that they wanted to soak Gore for a few more concessions before climbing aboard. In fact, what impressed Branegan was how quietly ?- and quickly ? the rest of the AFL-CIO went along. "It seems to be a very enlightened group," he says. "Both Bradley and Gore are free-traders ? Gore?s biggest moment was defending NAFTA against Perot ? and there hasn?t been a word about that." Of course...
...votes to pass, senators were negotiating Wednesday to reschedule next Tuesday's vote. "The White House was confident that given a normal legislative process with weeks of hearings and plenty of advance warning, it could muster the votes to win this one," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "On the other hand, Senator Lott knew he could hold the line against the treaty if he caught the White House off guard with a quick vote." Although the two sides may agree to postpone the battle, Republicans want it to wait until after the 2000 elections, while the White House...
...scrambling to draft a stopgap spending bill (to avoid a shutdown) and get those bills on the White House desk in any form ? then at least Republicans can take the fight to him. Initiative like that might have helped with the tax cut, says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "Before the Republicans were able to agree on anything, Clinton was standing there with the veto pen in his hand," he says. "He and the Democrats were able to talk people out of a big tax cut before it ever got started." This year, say the polls, the suspicion...