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Neither party has attempted to deal realistically with this menace. Dole's tax cuts might force a future President to demand even bigger increases than would otherwise be needed. The Republican Congress, however, did at least propose to slow the growth of Medicare spending by $270 billion over seven years. Clinton proposed cuts of $124 billion, but effectively demagogued the Republicans for proposing "drastic cuts." That kind of talk can only frighten the elderly into still more determined opposition to Medicare changes--any kind, ever...
...crash, Clinton named Gore head of a task force on airline safety--a delicate job, since the report he produces must be rigorous without implying that the President flubbed the issue earlier. Gore is also the favorite mouthpiece for Clinton's rapid-response team, "prebutting" Bob Dole before a big Dole family-values speech, or slashing at Dole's equivocations on which programs will be shrunk...
TIME: Senator Dole gets a lot of applause when he says the President sends Chelsea to private school but opposes vouchers to let you send your kids to private school...
Sensing a wedge issue, Bob Dole has promised a "war on drugs." But he won't even acknowledge that education and treatment should be favored over interdiction, as a large majority of the nation's police chiefs advocate. With nothing of substance to say, Dole has lamely promised that winning the war will be his "No. 1 priority." That's his fourth No. 1 priority so far--after school choice, a balanced budget and tax cuts. As for Clinton, recalling an old pledge might help. "If I've fallen short this year," he said in 1993, "it's in drug...
...system he brags so piously about provides few realistic ways for the poor to uplift themselves beyond insisting that they tug at their bootstraps. Clinton argues that those who still believe that the Federal Government has a duty to try to eradicate poverty should support him because Bob Dole would be so much worse. But as Jesse Jackson has repeatedly and unavailingly pointed out, it makes little sense to elect a Democrat if he governs like a conservative Republican...