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...compassionate conservative against the pragmatic idealist? Could they be more different, one so unpolished it's hard to imagine, the other so shiny it hurts to look. Vice President Al Gore runs as a populist who doesn't talk much about the poor; George W. Bush, backed by more GOP fat cats than any other Republican in memory, delivers "the best New Democrat speech ever given in prime time," says a former Clinton adviser...
...given that a majority of Americans support some form of abortion rights, Gore could pick up a few pre-election points by directing voters' attention to the terms of the GOP agreement, and suggesting an ominous outcome: If pro-life Republicans are so confident that Bush will blockade federal funding to family planning clinics at home and abroad, who knows what other plans the governor might have when it comes to abortion rights...
...Bush is sending out his friends. The 29 other GOP governors, the guys who drafted him in the first place, have divided up into teams and will crisscross the country explaining how well Bush works with Democrats. They will promise that with their man, things will get done. That Bush will make the federal government small enough for a lightly experienced governor to run, and that this political child can amble into Washington and soothe the savage beasts...
...gives some people a goofy sense of hope, despite the almost universal feeling that this man will need the hardest-working aides in Washington. And the Democrats have put up a man (really, he put himself up) who has gone left and made himself a fatter target for the GOP crosshairs than Bill Clinton ever was. A guy who, despite significant brainpower and numerous accomplishments, strikes a lot of people as Clinton's Peter Lorre...
...have been caused by the laws themselves. All Congress needs to do is take a vote and gross examples of unfairness disappear. Unfortunately, Congress has not acted on three simple bills that presented opportunities to fix the barbaric 1996 immigration law. The first bill, which was dropped in a GOP closed-door session earlier this month, would have restored health care benefits for pregnant legal immigrants and their newborn children. Such Medicare coverage was cut in 1996, even though legal immigrants pay taxes and have to bear all the responsibilities of citizens. Beyond the moral abhorrence of denying health care...