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...postpartisan age, anyone who hopes to fix anything will have to swallow hard and reach out across the aisle to find the needed votes. So if Clinton learned a lesson about hubris, the Republicans face one about bitterness. Late last week a senior White House official quietly telephoned a plea to a top Gingrich adviser. The White House knew it would win, and on the assumption that the Congress would stay in Republican hands, the aide was angling for a favor in advance. When the polls close on Tuesday, he asked, might the Speaker and Senate majority leader Trent Lott...
Clinton will have a harder time persuading both parties to wean themselves from the special-interest cash spoiling American politics. He needs to make good on his 11th-hour promise to fix the system, partly because he knows the Republicans will dangle John Huang in his face until he can get it done. But Clinton will first have to persuade his own party to break its addiction to soft money, the large contributions from fat cats that go to "party-building" activities. It is a measure of Clinton's lack of seriousness about reform that he simply informed his allies...
...even he intended to pay. The way he has run this time could do as much to shape his second term as anything he actually promised to do. After all the speeches and all the spin, the one sure mandate of the 1996 election is for both parties to fix the money system before we have to trust in it again...
...government than that which we have come to expect from the overheated debates in Washington. It is a vision of government that neither solves problems for people nor leaves them alone to fend for themselves. Rather, Bill Clinton's winning vision is one that gives people the means to fix their own problems...
...Gulf War, Mouton supports life sentences for twice-convicted child molesters and rapists. He also wants to "make prisons as uncomfortable as the Eighth Amendment prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment will allow." Pledging he will not be forced to vote along party lines, Mouton says "the best way to fix the system is from within the system...