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...sacrifice may win you points in baseball or religion, but in politics it's a riskier proposition. When Bill Clinton used that word in his Inaugural Address, it marked a victory for the deficit hawks among his supporters. This faction of the President's aides, joined by centrist Democrats in Congress, is urging him to take advantage of the new public willingness to accept what Ross Perot calls "shared sacrifice" to balance the budget and revive economic growth...
Clinton has received high marks for naming nearly as many blacks and women as Wasp men to his Cabinet. But centrist Democrats have reason to doubt Clinton's commitment to political reform. Several of the "new Democrats" who helped generate the best ideas for Clinton's campaign, including Democratic Leadership Council luminaries David Osborne and Robert Shapiro, have not found places in the new regime. Said former drug czar and Education Secretary Bill Bennett: "We know now that 'a place called Hope' seems to be a room full of lawyers." For all the ethnic and gender diversity of Clinton...
That statement distills the centrist internationalism of the Clinton team, which is convinced that the world will be safer and more stable -- goals that were also Bush's watchwords -- if the U.S. stands up more robustly for democracy and human rights. Berger respects Jimmy Carter's ideals and is attracted to service in government as a means of doing good, but he measures good in terms of practical results. "Carter launched too many initiatives and kind of overloaded the circuits," Berger reflects. In serving his old friend from Arkansas, he is determined to ensure that the new President does...
ULTIMATELY, IT MAY COME DOWN TO A MATTER OF passion vs. Passion. Twenty Republican centrist leaders who think they can muster enough of the former to check the growing power of the latter have announced the creation of the Republican Majority Coalition. The group's main goal is to excise controversial moral questions, like abortion, gay rights and school prayer from politics generally and from the next G.O.P. platform in particular...
...Clintons adroitly navigated Washington's political shoals last week, trickier decisions loom ahead. Many of the Governor's more liberal advisers note that the man who has been criticized for trying to be all things to all people has taken a distinctly centrist tack of late. Last week Clinton named former South Carolina Governor Richard Riley to be the transition team's lead headhunter. Nor is Riley the only moderate Southerner on board: Al From, head of the Democratic Leadership Council and the transition's domestic-policy chief, is seen as increasingly influential. "The folks who expected the Trojan horse...