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...their terms. Clinton this month offered to curb anticipated Medicare spending by an additional $18 billion, moving well toward the g.o.p. position in last year's showdown. For congressional Democrats, this amounted to an act of betrayal. Come 2000, and a Democratic challenger like, say, House minority leader Dick Gephardt might well recycle the devastating Medicare scare ads of 1996, this time aimed at the Vice President...
...will be all the worse for Gore if the ultimate budget deal involves fiddling with the Consumer Price Index, an option Clinton took off the table under sharp criticism from Gephardt. The worthy policy--cutting the government's official inflation measure--would leave candidate Gore with a lot of explaining to do to the elderly facing smaller Social Security increases...
...donorfest and the fund-raising calls he made from his office badly compromised his forthright image. Worse, they led to the March press conference where Mr. Clean became Uncle Wiggly. Though he's still the Democratic front runner for the year 2000, his troubles have encouraged rivals like Dick Gephardt and Bob Kerrey...
...DICK GEPHARDT Shuts down Clinton on both CPI and a budget compromise. 2000, here we come...
Lott wonders how much Clinton's dealmaking will be constrained by the President's desire to help Vice President Al Gore in the Democratic primaries of 2000. Almost any compromise with Lott and his Republicans is sure to bring Gore under attack by House Democratic leader Richard Gephardt and others on the left of the party. For his part, the President wonders whether Lott is positioning himself to run for the G.O.P. nomination in 2000. Clinton knows Lott keeps an active fund-raising schedule...