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...hand, Clinton made a point of saying over and over again: I heard you, I listened; walk, don't run; cooperate, don't confront. There was a reason Clinton hardly ever mentioned his opponent from Kansas and even less often the Democratic Party: he was running against Gingrich, not Dole, as the better man to enact a Republican agenda...
...done as Senate majority leader and can offer as evidence his efforts last summer to pass the minimum-wage increase, health-insurance portability and welfare reform. Yet the Senate that Lott inherits is more Republican than it was before, and run by more conservative Senators than the group that Dole herded around for years. The Lott-Clinton relationship is the newest, and therefore holds the most promise for cooperation. Put all the Southern charm of these two men in a single room, and the walls would melt, so it will be interesting to watch them work their wiles on each...
...been astonished by how smoothly the President has co-opted the Republican agenda. Each man is privately fascinated with the other, both have relied on consultant Dick Morris, and both can turn shirty on camera if they aren't careful. Lott brings one big advantage to the job that Dole lacked. Because Lott and Gingrich were House backbenchers in the 1980s together, he can give the Speaker advice in a way Dole never could...
...storytelling, this change makes perfect sense. As logic, it's puzzling. What was held only hours before the election to be full of suspense becomes, in retrospect, inevitable. Campaign developments reported and analyzed breathlessly as they occurred--Clinton's physical stance in the second presidential debate, Dole's decision to concentrate on California during the past few weeks--are dismissed, not long afterward, as irrelevant. And the question never seems to arise: Why have you invested all those months chasing around the country after the candidates and chewing over every twist and turn in the saga...
...spin on the history question is that history is still on their side, and its unlikely messenger is Bill Clinton: he "stole" the election by campaigning as a Republican. But this is a tremendous exaggeration. Clinton did not campaign (or govern) as a McGovernite Democrat any more than Bob Dole campaigned as a Goldwaterite Republican. Both parties and both men have accommodated to history; neither can claim history's momentum. Dole, who voted against the creation of Medicare in 1965--a principled, conservative stance--spent the 1996 campaign passionately insisting that he wanted to "save" Medicare...