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...tenure has been controversial among some Democrats for what might be called Kerrey's Merry Millionaires. His enthusiastic championing of wealthy businessmen such as Walter Minnick in Idaho, Tom Bruggere in Oregon, and former Glaxo executive Charlie Sanders in North Carolina (who last month lost the Dem-ocratic primary to Gantt) has caused some Democrats to wonder whether it was wise to link the erstwhile party of the working- man with those perceived as high rollers. Kerrey bristles at this charge. "Who was our most hallowed Democratic politician of this century? Frank-lin Del-a-no Roos-e-velt," Kerrey...
DICK GEPHARDT AND AL GORE Played the Dem line hard with an eye to the 2000 presidential race...
...DEM PROBE BAGS G.O.P. CATCH...
...discovered that Clinton can more easily appear the leader in opposition than in power, fighting against things instead of for them. It is an odd, frustrating position for someone who arrived in Washington two years ago brimming with ideas, promising change and assuring the public that he and the Dem-ocratic Congress would break gridlock. This year his most notable acts as President will be to create gridlock, with vetoes of Republican legislation he considers extreme. Whether the fight is over Clinton's program to fund 100,000 more police or the survival of his national-service youth corps...
...political and practical move by the Democrats to define themselves as clearly different from the Gingrich crowd, according to TIME political writer Michael Kramer. "Newt's free ride in the world of big think ends this week, " Kramer writes in this week's issue of TIME. But will the Dem's embattled big chief sign on? Writes Kramer: "Few expect him to summon the courage to tackle entitlements seriously...