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Indeed, Bush's success so far comes in part from nourishing political yearnings on both sides of his party. He sounds almost like a Democrat when he says saving Social Security is a high priority, but he makes like a conservative Republican when he adds that privatizing part of the system is the way to do it. In his Meet the Press interview, Bush broke with his party by endorsing the right of patients to sue their HMOs, but he burnished his social-conservative credentials by declining to meet with the leading group of gay Republicans. He's against hate...
...mainstream environmental groups that Clinton in 1982 would have counted among his natural allies are now moved to mount the biggest protests America has seen since the Vietnam War speaks volumes about the politics of the Clinton era. The centerpiece of the President's "Third Way" or "New Democrat" ideology was to challenge the Republicans' traditional monopoly on being the party of business. The Clinton administration may have have blown hot and then cold on its liberal advocates over the past seven years, but its bottom line has consistently been the bottom line of America...
Tart-tongued South Carolina Democrat Fritz Hollings, one of Domenici's predecessors as chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, decried all talk of surpluses as "a circus act if I've ever seen one." Said he: "Instead of the deficit and debt going down, they're going up." His point: while the government is no longer borrowing from Social Security, it is still borrowing heavily from trust funds for Medicare, pensions for military and civilian government employees, highway building and other things. Without those nonpublic borrowings, he contended, the government ran a deficit of $127.8 billion last fiscal year...
Consider Iowa attorney general Tom Miller, a Democrat and one of the A.G.s suing Microsoft. The company has hired two of his best friends, both former legislators. "They were in to see me once or twice" about the lawsuit, Miller says, and he's also heard from two former state A.G.s making Microsoft's arguments. A similar strategy seems to be at work in California, where, according to attorney general Bill Lockyer, the company hired a former state senator who is "a very close friend of mine." In West Virginia, Microsoft has taken a tougher tack. According to attorney general...
...review board at the Patent and Trademark Office, and defined criteria for such extensions in ways that tended to favor the drug companies. But that bill, quietly introduced by New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg, failed. This year the crusade has been more public: New Jersey's other Senator, Democrat Robert Torricelli, introduced the bill one day after the company gave $50,000 to the committee he chairs to help elect Democrats to the Senate. He says the timing was a coincidence...