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...just in case he started to waffle, the Democrats had built in some safeguards. They insisted, for example, that Daschle and Gephardt sit in on the talks and tend to the party's soul. So Clinton decided to use Gephardt as his bad cop. ''You gotta speak up,'' Clinton told Gephardt during private Democratic strategy sessions. And Gephardt followed through. ''If you're going to talk about tax cuts," he told the Republicans at the table, "let's talk about tax cuts for people who need them...
...millions of dollars last year attacking "Republican cuts" in Medicare, said nothing, having been counseled to stay calm at such moments. Gore remained feisty, however--so much so that rumors began circulating that he was throwing bones to the party faithful with an eye to a presidential race against Gephardt in the year...
Although Mitchell was once active in his county Democratic Party and supported Dick Gephardt for President in 1988 he can't stomach Bill Clinton and hasn't seen him tackle the wage problem in an effective way. Nor is Mitchell hearing answers from most of the Republicans running for President. But there's one exception, and that's why, on a crisp October evening, Mitchell drives to a hotel ballroom on the outskirts of town and listens to a former Nixon speechwriter named Pat Buchanan...
...cuts of just $90 billion, the sum the Health Care Financing Administration, which oversees the system, says is needed to restore solvency. "We know that if the Republicans would only drop their trickle-down tax breaks, they simply wouldn't need to ravage Medicare," says House minority leader Dick Gephardt...
...Maybe Gephardt should send Mayor Giuliani. Gingrich attacked New York City, calling it a corrupt, over-unionized drain on the rest of the country. New York City Mayor Giuliani responded that while his city sends $9 billion more to Washington than it gets back in federal spending, Georgia gets $1 billion more than it pays in taxes. Giuliani added that Gingrich's own congressional district is a leading recipient of federal pork...