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...police in Vienna, Virginia, last week when he got word that followers of Lyndon LaRouche, dean of the American political fringe and Virginia resident, might ambush him along the way with a salvo of rotten fruit. "What do we do?" North asked an adviser, Mark Goodin. "Be sure and duck," Goodin replied...
...minority doesn't necessarily think the bill is bad. No, it's just politics as usual. Take the example of gun control. An insane gunman shoots President Reagan, but somehow Reagan feels enough like a duck to let that water slide off his back. In short, he doesn't support gun control--until he's out of office, when he becomes a staunch advocate of the Brady Bill. Did you ever ask Bob Dole if he's for gun control? He might be once he gets out of politics...
Besides, re-election means facing the public. Term limits would create a new, politically dangerous category of "lame duck" representatives and senators. These representatives would become completely unaccountable to the public in their final terms...
After the game, I couldn't help but duck in the back of the band's procession and follow...
...adjourn as quickly as possible. The House approved and sent to the Senate for its expected approval a stringent ban on gifts from lobbyists. The Senate, unable to overcome bitter partisan differences, walked away from campaign-reform legislation but agreed to go back for a post-election lame- duck session in order to vote on global-trade legislation...