Word: gop
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...President to speak before the people who are currently judging him. And throughout the State of the Union, Republicans could be seen primly sitting or looking sour while President Clinton gave the speech of his life. But afterward, rather than raising the impeachment scandal, members of the GOP mostly confined their gripes to White House policy -- which is just what Clinton wanted. "The President is trying to set up the same trap as last year, which is to put the Republicans against Social Security," says TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson. Though Dick Armey attacked the proposed budget -- "a $4 trillion...
...Sound like the Republicans' old plan? Essentially, it is. But TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson says that Friday's play-nice decision to delay the decision on witnesses could still play into Democrats' hands. Unified Democrats would need only six GOP votes to proceed without witnesses -- which leaves Henry Hyde the task of convincing 51 weary jurors that there's more that they need to hear. Meanwhile, the White House legal team bears the schizophrenic burden of planning for the worst while hoping for the best. But it's clearly the Senate's show now, and after nearly morphing into...
...cold war anachronism, but new measures to be announced by the White House Tuesday reflect a continued pandering to Cuban exile organizations in such electoral-prize states as Florida and New Jersey. While easing restrictions on cash flow and contact between the two countries, Clinton rejected pleas by GOP Senator John Warner to launch a bipartisan review of the four-decade-old embargo -- a proposal fiercely opposed by the influential exile lobby...
...Henry Hyde and his team of 13 GOP House "managers" are in no mood for expediency. They want to hear from Monica, Betty and Vernon, and even let the President's team cross-examine: a real two-sided trial that the U.S. justice system can be proud of. A legitimate point -- but TIME congressional correspondent Jay Carney says these guys aren't the ones to make it. "In the House, it was the Republicans who insisted that they didn't need witnesses," he says. "Coming from them it could sound a little hollow...
WASHINGTON: The stampede that just last week sealed President Clinton?s impeachment is now headed in the other direction. CNN reports that at least a dozen more GOP moderates hold views similar to those of the four representatives who Tuesday asked Trent Lott to ignore that bit in the articles about ?removal from office.? But TIME congressional correspondent James Carney says that hopes for a pre-trial censure deal will run up against the same brick wall that quashed a compromise in the House: Republican leaders in thrall to the far right. ?Trent Lott can?t be seen...