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...symbolic importance for America's diplomatic and economic legitimacy, as well as for world peace. But a New York Times/CBS News poll released Wednesday showed that only 2 percent of American voters considered defense the "single most important problem for the president and Congress to deal with." The GOP can seek consolation in the poll's finding that the public considers Republicans significantly better equipped than Democrats to make military decisions. In an election year, it clearly behooves congressional Republicans to hype up the weaknesses of the nation's defense. George W. may have some angry words...
...Republicans appeared to be making concessions to the White House over funding additional police and paying U.N. dues, education is still shaping up as a fight. Although the two sides are only $200 million apart over how much to spend, the dispute is over how to spend it: The GOP wants additional spending to take the form of block grants to the states; the White House insists on federal control. Rather than dig in their heels, the Republicans have tended to sign off on some of Clinton's pet projects but then insert riders that the President may find politically...
...pick and choose the ones that are most onerous and then decide what to keep. He seems to once again have gauged the political winds more accurately than the Republicans have." Then again, ever since the government shutdown of 1995 brought disaster for the GOP at the polls, budget negotiations have been something of a home-court game for the White House...
...analysis of his own in his speech, saying he was surprised by developments in the 2000 presidential race. If he had been asked a year ago, Berke said, he would have guessed that Vice President Al Gore '69 would have scared off most of his Democratic challengers, and the GOP side of the race would be wide open...
Senator McCain, as the acknowledged champion of campaign finance reform, made the most of the night to consolidate his position in second place, hammering the special-interests-control-Washington theme while at the same time burnishing his centrist credentials by affirming his tolerance for pro-choice positions within the GOP and for gay rights. Steve Forbes basked in the fact that his flat tax had become something of a conventional wisdom among Republicans, Gary Bauer tried to claim the Buchanan legacy as the choice of the blue-collar conservative, while Senator Orrin Hatch and Alan Keyes struggled to find signature...