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Over the past week, much to the chagrin of the media, the doubts initially held by so many centrist Israelis "in the know" proved to be well-founded. Since the media played one of the leading roles in the production of the "peace process," it is not surprising that for the past three years, their cameras have been covered with rose-tinted lenses. An accepting western audience and a battle-weary Israeli one bought into the illusion...
...Contract with America two years ago. Gone are any grand liberal schemes for redistributing wealth and re-engineering society. In their place is Families First, an agenda Gephardt calls "modest, realistic and achievable," and Republicans blast as election-year gorilla dust. The greatest testament to the House Democrats' new, centrist course is its embrace of the G.O.P. goal of balancing the budget by 2002--something many House Democrats continue to consider an unnecessary and thankless pursuit...
Throughout the Kennedy years, Bundy took a detached centrist position on Vietnam. But early in 1965, President Johnson, who proudly called Bundy "my intellectual" but liked to humiliate him by making him give briefings while Johnson sat on the toilet, sent Bundy on a fateful fact-finding trip to Vietnam. He arrived just as the Viet Cong launched a direct attack on an American base in Pleiku. Bundy got on the phone with the White House to urge retaliation, then traveled to Pleiku. For once in his coldly rational life, his response was emotional...
...protection against a Clinton landslide, the most endangered G.O.P. candidates find themselves more eager to highlight their differences with Speaker Gingrich than with Clinton. With the President in his centrist incarnation, Cremeans' adviser, Barry Bennett, is not the only Republican boasting, "You can pick 10 big issues, and we're a lot closer to Clinton than our opponent is." Behind this explicit message is an implicit one: the virtue of divided government, if only as a check on the President's liberal instincts...
...task now for the Democrats in Congress--and for the Republicans who squandered the advantage that was in their grasp after 1994--is to learn the lessons of the Clinton victory and develop a broad-based, centrist philosophy that seeks to build on the fiscally prudent, values-based agenda that President Clinton began to articulate during the 1996 campaign...