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...advantages. Take this past week. The President was making peace and photo ops in a Middle East desert, while the nominee was specifying how to ease the Social Security earnings test. The beauty of incumbency is that the President can sit back and wait. In the current political firmament, Dole proposes, Clinton disposes. And in so doing, Dole could even force Clinton to show something like consistency. The President the Dole campaign accuses of "talking right and governing left" could become the President who really does, finally, end welfare as we know it. The President also has the luxury...
...task was to distance Senate Democrats from Clinton and what the Senator's own advisers called an "aura of failure surrounding the Democratic Party." Now he faces an almost opposite challenge. "I have to be certain that the Senate floor doesn't become the presidential-campaign megaphone for Bob Dole, and to a certain extent, we can do that by keeping the Republican majority in check," Daschle says. "I also have to be sure that any legislation out of the Senate has as much a Democratic stamp as a Republican one, so the President can claim as much credit...
...Senate Republicans dismayed their counterparts in the House when they added $2.7 billion for education demanded by Clinton to a spending bill that would keep the government operating for the rest of the year. In scoring these victories, Daschle has a time-honored weapon at his disposal, one that Dole put to good use in the past--the filibuster. With enough party discipline, it makes the minority leader unstoppable. Whereas House Democrats have regularly fractured, Senate Democrats have yet to lose the seven defectors it would take to break a Daschle-backed filibuster...
...stature lined up against him. The barons who lost their chairmanships in the wake of the 1994 Democratic rout quietly recruited Connecticut's Chris Dodd to run against him, arguing that someone with Daschle's inexperience would be no match for Gingrich's gale-force approach to legislating or Dole's awesome mastery of the game...
...liability if the Democrats regain control of the Senate and are once again called upon to set the agenda, rather than thwart it. For now, though, even the Republicans acknowledge Daschle's effectiveness, at least in a backhanded way. "They made us jump a lot of hoops," says Dole. But then Dole knows better than anyone else the value of that tactic. "That's part of leadership," he adds...