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...that is how Congressman Condit has behaved since the beginning of this whole ugly business. From the moment Chandra Levy was lost, he has acted as though her disappearance was a particularly nasty political trick designed to hurt his career. Mr. Condit, let me tell you something: it has been your reflexive and small-minded attention to saving your political career that will most surely...
...suppose if there's one bit of good to come out of this tawdry mess is that it allows Americans to get a glimpse of their representatives. In Washington, Gary Condit is a dime-a-dozen, the blow-dried but not particularly bright Congressman who tends his own constituent garden and doesn't have any real involvement in issues of national importance. Their careers are not about service or ideology but about re-election - that is the star they steer...
...California congressman who reportedly kept company with the missing intern will break his silence tonight at 10 p.m. ET on ABC in a live-to-tape, no-restrictions interview with the winner of the "get" sweepstakes, Connie Chung. (A nickel for Dan Rather's thoughts right now.) By Monday, similarly "candid" interviews with Condit will have appeared - at this writing - in national weeklies People and Newsweek, and on local television stations in his home district. Condit has also penned a letter to constituents, which arrived at the Modesto Post Office some time Wednesday afternoon. CNN's Bob Franken...
...while this August looked quiet. "This summer hasn't produced the usual drought, in part because the media has been fixated on Condit," Kurtz said. But without a corpse - or a word from the congressman - the saga had run up against its limits in May and June, and by August, added Kurtz, the doldrums had clearly set in. "You know things are slow when TV is replaying shark footage and the mere fact that the president is on vacation becomes an opportunity for endless media thumbsucking...
...Republicans are praying that 98-year-old Strom Thurmond hangs on until his term ends next year, when South Carolina Congressman Lindsey Graham, who's said he'll run for Thurmond's seat, stands a good chance of keeping it in the GOP column. If Thurmond leaves before his term?s up, South Carolina's Democratic governor would almost surely name someone from his party to fill the vacancy, giving Democrats a leg up in that race. What's more, Republican senators tell me at least three other GOP incumbents - Fred Thompson of Tennessee, Pete Domenici of New Mexico...