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...wrong decision was made, but that it was made for the worst reason: partisanship. Realizing there weren't enough votes for ratification, President Clinton and many other Congressional Democrats asked Lott and the Republican leaders to take the treaty off the current Senate agenda as a way to delay the vote for further deliberation instead of killing it outright...
Realizing what was at stake, Britain, France and Germany also asked for a delayed vote. Lott, however, refused to compromise when Clinton wouldn't promise in writing that he wouldn't bring it back up for vote before the end of his presidential term in 2001. The fact that the decision to bring up the vote with no delay was decided exactly on party lines and the vote on the treaty itself practically so (with a few Republicans voting to ratify) is a pretty clear indicator that the vote was decided not for policy reasons but because of politics...
Beyond the posturing rivals and professional loudmouths, many conservative leaders secretly are not that concerned about what Bush said last week. They know he has a history of offering moderate rhetoric, then coming down solidly in their camp. Two weeks ago, he opposed a G.O.P. plan to delay tax-credit payments to low-income workers, saying his party's leaders shouldn't "balance their budget on the backs of the poor." But he supported the party's $800 billion tax-cut plan, which would require deep cuts in worthy programs aimed at the same people...
...hope, without delay...
...grassroots organization that his excitement-deprived campaign sorely needs ?- and one that has $40 million to spend ?- the endorsement couldn?t have come at a better time. As in now. "Bill Bradley wasn?t really counting on getting the union vote anyway, but he was pushing hard for a delay," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "Because if the AFL-CIO convention had come and gone without the nod for Gore, it would have been a disaster. And it would have been more evidence for the perception that Gore?s just not electable...