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Only a few short months ago, privatizing Social Security seemed all the rage. Al Gore ’69 had to rush to promote an alternative plan; Joe Lieberman was forced to take a “private journey” from privatization; and GOP nominee George Bush had confidently urged the parties to end the “politics of fear” and give every American a stake in the booming stock market...
...been easy to support in the past, when it had no chance of passing. But in the 2000 election the Democrats had become as slick as the Republicans at raising soft money; do away with it, and all that would be left is hard money, where the GOP still holds a big advantage. Some Democrats approached McConnell quietly, he told TIME, with private pleas to "stop this from happening" and "pull some rabbit out of the hat one more time." Wellstone's amendment was the ticket. "I viewed it as another unconstitutional ornament we could put on this tree," McConnell...
...carbon-dioxide emissions, Bush has been eager to show he is a political child of the Reagan years, and willing to play the reactionary if the conservatives chant loud enough. And now that the Clinton boom is stumbling, Bush sees an opportunity to take back fiscal policy for the GOP. Tax cuts and government shrinkage - those are sacred conservative cows, and we've already seen some of Bush's best hardball as he goes down the Senate line yanking on arms...
...simple up-or-down vote on soft money, McCain found he had hung onto all but six Democrats and picked up a handful of Republicans too - thanks in no small part to the ratcheting up in the "hard money" that, in a world without the soft kind, will the GOP's bread and butter...
John McCain's crusade for campaign finance reform has attracted plenty of well-wishers over the years, but his Republican colleagues in the Senate have not often been among them. His attempt to get the bill past a GOP filibuster in 1999 set off one of the nastiest Senate confrontations in recent memory, as members of his own party ganged up to smother his reform. So it was both a good omen and a bit of a surprise that last week, as McCain launched yet another attempt, the bouquet of flowers he received came not just from a Republican...