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...networks started scaling back their coverage in 1996, when the big stories were Dick Morris' hooker's toes and Ted Koppel walking out for lack of news. Viewers' attention spans were still too short: Ratings dropped 26 percent from 1992 for the GOP and 18 percent for the Democrats. So this time around, American politics' quadrennial summer showcase is being consigned to cable - and PBS, of course - where the junkies and the partisans can drink their fill...
...think of him as I read that both Democrats and Republicans look forward to the coming presidential campaign with what seems a high-minded determination to avoid their own dark side. The Bush campaign has ordained, for example, that the GOP convention starting in Philadelphia at the end of July is to be upbeat and positive. Normally, the second night of the convention is devoted to attacking the Democratic candidate. Not this time. All four nights are to be given over to celebrating the compassionate conservative, George W. Bush. Eliminate the negative...
Thanks to the energetic support of House Majority Leader Dick Armey, the rich may be poised to get a whole lot richer - and congressional Democrats could be staring at an election year gold mine. Friday, the GOP-controlled House, with the help of 65 rogue Democrats, passed a bill that would repeal estate taxes by the year 2010 - a far more sweeping (and expensive) tax break than the version favored by most Democrats, including President Clinton. And while Clinton has vowed to stand in the way of the bill, the Republicans are only 11 votes short of those needed...
...Republican-sponsored plan pulls through, it would eliminate current federal estate taxes. The cost: a cool $105 billion. Repealing the so-called "death tax" has been a critical issue for congressional GOP members, and they insist the expense of this cut would be covered by the polymorphous and always controversial budget "surplus." The Democrats' plan, with a slimmer $22 billion price tag, was geared toward providing "targeted" estate tax relief for family farmers and small business owners. And where would the extra $88 billion provided for in the GOP plan end up? In the bank vaults of America's wealthiest...
...fallout when national Republicans make their decision whether to abandon the seat to Corzine or give Franks a fighting chance - which will cost them big, because Corzine is just getting warmed up. That means soft money, which means more fund-raising, influence-peddling and other democratic ickiness. If the GOP leaves Franks to his own devices and gets creamed, it's arguable that democracy is not served whenever the financial entry fee gets this high...