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Morris has guided Clinton into one of the most dramatic repositionings of his career: an attempt to return to the centrist New Democrat mode of his 1992 campaign. But there is risk as well that Clinton will find himself virtually without allies. His speech sent his own party into convulsions, with some congressional Democrats privately calling him a turncoat and vilifying Morris as a kind of serpent whispering evil in the President's ear. Republicans, having grudgingly praised Clinton at first, were suggesting within a few days that he was a fraud. Their evidence: a Congressional Budget Office estimate that...
Even as he courts centrist voters, however, Reed has been determinedly pressing Republican politicians to move toward the Coalition's right-wing policies. Last week the Coalition lobbied hard against the nomination of Dr. Henry Foster as Surgeon General. Next week the Christian Coalition and many of its Republican allies will unveil their sequel to the Contract with America: the Contract with the American Family. Meanwhile, presidential candidates are dropping in on Reed for counsel. Bob Dole's attack on the morals of Hollywood was the result of consultations with Reed. Lamar Alexander, who last summer held that Washington should...
...creating such a political hullabaloo that it is difficult to sort things out. As a result, sometimes those who are not the right people get into the State Duma. Therefore, we decided to cut off both the left and the right wings of the extremist movement and create two centrist blocs, because as you understand, one centrist bloc would be too big. This would be a model of the bipartisan system you have had for the past 200 years, resulting in a civilized state based on civilized principles. It will be a powerful force that will stop any petty politicians...
...think he would be very much in the mold of Justice Breyer, a centrist civil libertarian," Dershowitz said. "I think he'd be a tremendous intellectual addition to the court...
...rippling effect on the nation's perception of the role that the president plays in our government. Finally, Clinton must be cautious of those who advise him to move to the right (or further to the right), as a means to appease Conservatives. Such a move by a centrist Democrat is sure to prove politically fatal...