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...minister Benjamin Netanyahu learned that harsh fact on Monday when former defense minister Moshe Arens, the man who appointed Netanyahu to the No. 2 spot at the Israeli embassy in Washington in 1982, announced he would challenge Netanyahu for the Likud party leadership. "There appears to be a growing consensus within the party," says TIME world editor Joshua Cooper Ramo, "that members may not want to bet all their cards on Bibi...
While the committee reached consensus on spending caps, there was dissent on other issues, especially on unemployment insurance. Some members supported bolstering the unemployment fund, while others thought it would be more fiscally effective to let the fund run out and then borrow from the federal government...
...year is that most citizens don't seem to think it's significant that the President had oral sex with a 22-year-old intern. Yes, yes, and he lied about it. Under oath. Blah blah blah. They still don't care. Rarely has such an unexpected popular consensus been so clear. And rarely has such a clear consensus been so unexpected...
...What ever happened to the scarlet letter?" has become a major despairing theme of conservative political commentary. (Or, "Values, shmalues," as America's leading value peddler, William Bennett, summarized the apparent new culture consensus to the New York Times recently.) Social conservatives used to be smug populists who tarred their critics as out-of-touch elitists. Now they shoot furious thunderbolts at the formerly all-wise American people. Although the dismay of the sanctimony set is enjoyable to watch, their despair may be somewhat misplaced...
Among the more serious consequences of last week's action could be a breakdown--or at least a slow erosion--of the consensus for sanctions against Iraq. China has long called for a lifting of the embargo to ensure an uninterrupted flow of imported oil. Lawmakers in Moscow too muttered darkly about unilateral removal of trade restrictions. Even if sanctions survive, there's no guarantee that Saddam will become less dangerous, just as a toothless UNSCOM didn't keep him in check...