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...Horatius at the bridge, our lonely defender against the Newtite hordes. Or (less partisan version): Americans have discovered that they like gridlock, as a protection against the excesses of both parties. They have not turned against the Republican vision of smaller government--they just don't trust Speaker Gingrich to control himself...
...Republicans moved toward their "train wreck" strategy of ramming a G.O.P. budget down Clinton's throat by threatening to shut down the government, Morris believed Clinton had to get a deal no matter what--it was the key to his re-election. Last fall, Time has learned, when the Gingrich Congress was going after Medicare, Morris urged Clinton to agree to a proposed increase in premiums paid by Medicare recipients. It was a responsible policy position--middle-class entitlements are devouring the budget--but Clinton didn't take it. Instead he cast the G.O.P. as granny-bashing extremists...
...suggested the best bit of stagecraft in Clinton's virtuoso State of the Union speech: planting in the gallery Richard Dean, a Social Security Administration employee who had heroically saved lives in Oklahoma City. Dean provoked thunderous bipartisan applause--and then G.O.P. consternation when Clinton noted that the Gingrich-inspired government shutdown had later locked Dean out of his office. It was Gore who forcefully advocated the quick appointment of Mickey Kantor as Commerce Secretary after Ron Brown's death; who persuaded Clinton to rediscover the virtues of being pro-environment; who twisted entertainment executives' arms until they agreed...
...days before Bill Clinton signed a welfare-reform law that will plunge more than a million children into official poverty, he marked his 50th birthday with glitzy celebrations in New York City that added $10 million to his party's bulging campaign war chest? Shades of Marie Antoinette, Newt Gingrich and Jesse Helms...
...signed a bill Wednesday that will make it easier for Americans to obtain health coverage. Although a far cry from his 1992 promise of universal health coverage, TIME's Jef McAllister says: "Clinton has to take considerable pleasure because the bill signings are a successful punctuation mark in casting Gingrich and the Republicans as extremists." Congressional Republicans, says McAllister, faced with increasing pressure from districts dissatisfied with the government gridlock, felt obliged to compromise and pass welfare, health and minimum wage bills. Part of a three- day run of signing ceremonies designed to showcase the President's achievements, Wednesday...