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...latest moves at least have the virtue of making the U.S. appear busy: pressing aggressive inspections, organizing a political opposition, plotting covert action, "preparing the battlefield" for insurrection. But the results are all too likely to prove insignificant when it turns out you can't cheaply subcontract a coup or ever track down 100% of Saddam's terror arsenal...
Most of the Nation's 31 Republican Governors will meet in New Orleans this week to chew over the election results, install Oklahoma's Frank Keating as their new leader and discuss a possible coup. The target is JIM NICHOLSON, the G.O.P. party chairman who many Republicans say shares the blame for making a hash of the recent elections and for being, looking and sounding too conservative in general. Several of the Governors, including Michigan's JOHN ENGLER, have said in public that it's time for Nicholson to pack his bags. Following the model used by the Democrats...
...would be his habit. In June 1997 the issue was disaster relief. Republicans loaded the bill with blatantly partisan riders, assuming Clinton wouldn't dare veto it. The President did, within minutes of its landing on his desk, and the Republicans were blamed for flood victims' getting stranded. A coup ensued, but Gingrich prevailed, primarily because there was no obvious candidate to replace him. His response: a 12-point memo on the lessons to be learned from the disaster-relief disaster. Lesson One: "In dealing with Clinton, you must never put yourself in a position where he can be compassionate...
Most of the nation's 31 Republican governors will meet in New Orleans this week to chew over the election results, install Oklahoma?s Frank Keating as their new leader and discuss a possible coup. The target is Jim Nicholson, the GOP party chairman who many Republicans say shares the blame for making a hash of the recent elections and for being, looking and sounding too conservative in general. Several of the governors, including Michigan's John Engler, have said in public that it?s time for Nicholson to pack his bags. Following the model used by the Democrats...
...score one for tree huggers turned fire bombers: the lynx is no longer a forgotten feline. But aside from that meager p.r. coup, the group committed as much an act of self-destructive futility as of terrorism; the fires didn't halt Category III, which Vail Resorts said would proceed more or less on schedule. The blazes won't even delay the start of the ski season...