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...prison...and stops building prisons like Holiday Inns." --Senator Phil Gramm (R-Texas), likely presidential candidates in 1996, quoted in the Boston Globe on Nov. 14, 1994. Gramm has clearly taken to practicing his rhetoric in preparation for tough debates against heavyweight contenders such as former Vice President J. Danforth Quayle...
Voting in the midterm elections was still a few days away, but Republican Senator John Chafee of Rhode Island was already feeling lonesome for the old gang. Surveying the voluntary departures of such Senate moderates as Minnesota's David Durenberger and Missouri's John Danforth as well as worrying about the loss of several others on Tuesday, a mournful Chafee said, "I'd like to say we're going to have some unforeseen support, but I must say, the middle is shrinking...
...Thomas-Hill Books. Call it neo-Thomism. Recent additions include Senator John Danforth's Resurrection and Jane Meyer and Jill Abramson's Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas. If ever we become tired of the Democrat/Republican two-party system, we could always mold American politics around the great Thomas-Hill divide...
...distraught during the Anita Hill sexual harassment hearings that he reportedly engaged in a bathroom prayer session and once writhed on the bedroom floor in despair. The info comes from a surprisingly credible source: the semi-contrite memoirs of Thomas's chief political sponsor, Missouri Sen. John Danforth. The politician-minister also confesses he might have gone a little hard on Hill to get Thomas on the bench...
Republican mainstreamers have their own suspicions about a compromise. "We didn't see this plan as one more step on a continuing march to the left," says Republican John Danforth of Missouri. "If they ((liberal Democrats)) are going to get the support of the mainstream coalition," adds Rhode Island's John Chafee, "they just can't make sizable changes in it." That could mean that the mainstreamers won't budge on their insistence on specific provisions that would limit federal health-care spending and on some cost-control requirements, perhaps via a cap on tax deductibility for employer contributions...