Word: gop
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...Quayle a contender for president? Earlier today, one of his "close associates" told CNN the former veep had all but announced for 1996. But Quayle, apparently unsure of potential GOP backing, promptly downgraded the alert to "thinking about it." Quayle's spokeswoman said he'd issue an official verdict after November's mid-term elections. BTW: A recent Harris poll of Republican and independent voters found Senate minority leader Bob Dole leads the undeclared pack with 17 percent support, followed by Quayle with 13 percent and former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Colin Powell with 12 percent...
With a little help from its GOP members, the House is expected to pass a crime bill tomorrow. The $33 billion, six-year bill includes money for several anti-crime measures including hiring 100,000 police officers and setting up drug courts. President Clinton has been lobbying hard for the bill, but conservative, NRA-backed Democrats oppose it because it bans some assault weapons; liberals don't like it because it expands the application of the death penalty. It was rescued, however, by some Republicans (between 10 and 20 at last count) who are expected to cross Party lines...
...suffered from horrendously poor voter turnout for at least twenty years. The GOP can claim about 40 percent of the nation's voters, but that's only 20 percent of the nation's eligible voting population. Opinion polls and domestic issues perennially find majorities on the side of Democrats. Quite simply, if every American over the age of 18 became informed and voted, the Republicans would have a hard time winning another presidential election...
Unfortunately, voter turnout is falling. Republicans, ever a minority, have less and less to fear from consensus. Perhaps Govs. Weld, Whitman and Wilson will wake up to the fact that shooting for consensus could just cause them to be ostracized in the party. Still, the GOP doesn't have many better--or at least relatively untainted--candidates for high office than those three...
...House Counsel Lloyd Cutler told Congress on the first day of hearings into the matter. But he was quick to add that neither the President nor his staff did anything illegal or unethical when administration officials met with the Treasury Department regarding a Whitewater-related savings & loan probe. The GOP response, summed up by Wisconsin Representative Toby Roth: "This thing smells to high heaven." Expect the rhetoric to grow worse, says TIME Washington correspondent Suneel Ratan. In further hearings this week, Republicans will get a crack at officials who allegedly had a hand in the White House/Treasury fiasco...