Word: gop
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...America." The subtext: Either Hillary's been spending too much time lately watching "Casablanca" reruns, or she really has come around to the view that the problems of three little people -- herself, Clinton and Lewinsky -- really don't add up to a hill of beans in this crazy (GOP-dominated) world. At the same time, spokewoman Marsha Berry revealed, the First Lady is finally returning calls to concerned congressmen. "She has certainly talked to some members," said Berry, "making the case that she's very proud of the President...
...where was that famous Clinton temper? Reports of presidential pique, it seems, were somewhat exaggerated. The witness remained controlled, if not entirely calm, throughout. And that may leave GOP members of the House Judiciary committee wondering if they weren't suckered into rushing the tape out with more fanfare than they intended. "The White House certainly thinks Republicans are guilty of playing a clumsy expectations game," says Branegan. That may backfire politically; on the other hand, many viewers may simply write the whole video episode off as an inevitable, unwatchable anticlimax. As one Clinton aide joked: "Only a roomful...
...before Hyde's committee is scheduled to vote on whether to release the President's grand jury testimony. The 71-year-old Hyde put the affair down to "youthful indiscretion" -- even though he was in his forties at the time, not much younger than Clinton is now. Other GOP luminaries cried conspiracy: "The President's attack dogs," said Majority Whip Tom DeLay, "don't know the difference between breaking the law and making a mistake decades ago." For its part, Salon denied a White House connection and defended the article by claiming it proved both Hyde and Clinton were still...
...they fail, aides expect that Democrats will threaten the end of bipartisan cooperation. Not that the word "bipartisan" has much currency anymore in a House where each member seems to have his own solution to the crisis. In the end, perhaps the only thing that will keep the GOP from letting the tapes be broadcast is the fear of public backlash. After all, Clinton always comes back strongest when he is most under fire...
Alexander ran for the 1996 GOP Presidential nomination after serving two years in the Bush administration as Secretary of Education between 1991 and 1993. He also served as governor of Tennessee between 1979 and 1987. Ronald Y. Koo Crimson RESTING ON HIS MORALS:LAMAR ALEXANDER touts his new tax plan at the Kennedy School of Government...