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...last week that Republicans weren't only looking for answers, they were looking for scapegoats. Top party officials wonder privately whether Scott Reed can rally his team during halftime; but the same officials acknowledge that Reed alone enjoys Dole's trust and that not even Reed can change Dole's ways...
There is plenty of irony in this on both sides. Even as White House aides celebrated their tactical victory in the scuffle over the gas tax, Clinton admitted he would consider repealing it. The rapid-response game is working so well for him that he can afford to concede Dole the substantive points and still come out ahead politically. Which means that even if Dole can lay out an agenda that voters might crave, it won't matter if he can't get it to the table while it's still...
...When Bob Dole said last week that the government should get out of the housing business and give poor people vouchers instead, you might have thought this idea was on its way to becoming bipartisan reality. After all, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros had already proposed that the nation's 3 million public-housing residents be given vouchers to spend where they please on rent. And how could Dole's fellow free-market Republicans object to housing vouchers--a system that relies on the market, not government, to determine how and where poor people live, a system first...
...Dole's G.O.P. colleagues responded to his proposal with surprise. Despite its being a traditionally Republican solution to public housing, congressional Republicans (including Dole) over the past 18 months have repeatedly voted to shrink the voucher program and refused to pass the Clinton Administration's proposal to convert all federal housing programs into such a system...
...What Dole's laudable support for housing vouchers appears to be up against is not philosophical opposition but something more visceral. Displaying symptoms of the NIMBY, or not-in-my-backyard, syndrome, Republicans, including House majority leader Dick Armey, have staunchly opposed voucher programs that might lead poor and disproportionately black public-housing residents to seek housing in the mostly white suburbs. Freshman Congressman Robert Ehrlich Jr., who represents the white, working-class suburbs of Baltimore, Maryland, has even introduced legislation to cut off money for voucher programs ordered by a federal judge in his district. "People who have worked...