Word: congressman
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...libido, Comedy Central has generally maintained a greater respect for its viewers' political intelligence. Rather than barrage us with easy laugh getters, like images of earnest delegates showing off Dole hand puppets, CC's commentators worked hard at the convention, managing to extract humor from sources as unlikely as Congressman John Kasich, who talked to correspondent Al Franken about his fondness for Alice Cooper...
...panacea of tax cuts seemed to have been ceded to his onetime protege Steve Forbes. Only three weeks ago, at one of the regular dinners of the pro-growth gang known as the Five Amigos--Kemp, House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Senator Connie Mack of Florida, former Minnesota Congressman Vin Weber and Senate majority leader Trent Lott--Kemp got in a shouting match with Gingrich, claiming that the party was forsaking its Reaganesque message of growth. So alienated was Kemp that, earlier this summer, he allowed his name to be dangled before the Reform Party as a possible nominee...
Where was Dole in all this? In and out of synch. As a Congressman in the early '60s he steered clear of racial politics. Dole supported the major civil rights bills, a political possibility for him because he represented a wheat-farming district that was less than 1% black, where racial friction was about as much of a problem as overcrowding. When the New Frontier evolved into the Great Society, he voted against some War on Poverty measures like public-housing subsidies and the bill that established Medicare. But his Small Government conservatism was open to the Big Government payout...
JOHN KASICH CONGRESSMAN, OHIO...
STEVE LARGENT CONGRESSMAN, OKLAHOMA...