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Political success is often accidental (Blair took command after his predecessor died of a heart attack), but it also comes from calculation. Just as Bill Clinton reinvented himself as a New Democrat to capture the White House in 1992, and then as a reborn centrist to win a second term last year, Blair has retooled Labour so that it sometimes seems like nothing but a more caring version of Toryism. Gone are the old socialist slogans. Gone is the pledge to redistribute income and nationalize industries. Blair calls his party "new Labour." His opponent, Conservative Prime Minister John Major, describes...
...acceptable face of Thatcherism to reach No. 10. Yet cloning has its limits, and Blair knows them well. He understands what happens when the dissonance between campaigning and governing becomes too great. Asked about the Republicans' 1994 midterm sweep, Blair suggested Clinton lacked the will to pursue the New Democrat policies on which he ran. "You don't run on one basis and govern on another," he said...
...scanner last December discussing ethics charges against the Speaker, a violation of his agreement with the ethics committee, they thought they had discovered "a part of history." The price for that discovery may turn out to be $10,000. The Justice Department filed criminal charges Wednesday against the two Democratic Party activists. The Florida couple faces $5,000 each in fines for violating state and federal laws against eavesdropping on phone conversations (Boehner was using a cell phone at the time) and disclosing their contents. The Martins have agreed to cooperate with the ongoing investigation into how the embarrassing conversation...
...Republicans clearly and convincingly dealt with every issue brought up by the Democrats, who failed to do so for any of the issues brought up by the Republicans," said pre-frosh James Carmichael, a New York City resident who said he is a Democrat...
...surprisingly, this latest Hatch-Kennedy effort is not dividing lawmakers along classic ideological lines: tobacco-state Senators like Kentucky Democrat Wendell Ford are certain to oppose the bill, while G.O.P. moderates like James Jeffords and Olympia Snowe have signed up as sponsors. It's got a fair shot at passing if only because, unlike Clinton's sweeping health plan, the Hatch-Kennedy proposal takes modest steps: it would cover only half of the 10 million children who lack health insurance. Conservative opponents say a better way to insure them would be to expand tax-sheltered "medical savings accounts...