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...chances are there won't be heated protests at the ARCO Forum tonight when Democrat Richard H. Gephardt mars the Harvard campus with his presence. No candlelight vigils are planned, and few students are likely to stand up bearing controversial signs during his speech. He is one of the most influential people in American politics today, and few seem to care what he says or does. Why? Two reasons...
...First, Gephardt, House minority leader and 20-year representative of the St. Louis area, is not in power. Those right-wingers who'd be opposed to him are too pleased to find themselves still in the majority--and too concerned about their own leadership's attempted coups--to pay much attention to presidential posturing on the Democratic side...
Second, and more important, those who have the biggest gripes with Gephardt are not the loud-mouthed left. Gephardt's goaders, if they spoke up, would be the economic moderates--the Clinton voters with a little Ec 10 behind them. But then, things like fast track trade legislation just don't spark political passions. Moderates read the papers and vote, but too often remain on the sidelines as key debates are taking place. We live in a country of Crossfires, in which public discourse is harshly split. This fall, with bitter, partisan campaign finance investigations and the almost comical obstructionism...
...business Democrat, but since the Republicans took control of Congress in 1994, business hasn't been donating that much to Democrats, pro-business or not. After all, every additional New Dog in Congress is a step toward corporate America's nightmare of nightmares: a Democratic House majority and Speaker Gephardt. The Democratic National Committee can't make up the shortfall because it's flat broke. That leaves the tender New Dog pups facing their first re-election next year dependent on labor. And that's why half the NDC opposed the President on fast-track trade authority last week, even...
...time, Jackson said his "destiny's larger than that." Larger and apparently more Oval-shaped. The reverend is coy about his presidential aspirations--but not too coy to needle a potential opponent. When asked if he would back the all-but-announced candidate and House minority leader, Dick Gephardt, Jackson grinned and reminded TIME that he had done his part in 1988 to make sure Gephardt could "spend more time with his family." Attention, Dick Gephardt: Get the Barcalounger ready...