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...Democratic candidate debate may have been the bland leading the bland, but the GOP's five angry men were somewhat neutered by the absence of the object of their anger. "Perhaps in the future, in a forum like this, if we call it a fund-raiser he may show up," candidate Steve Forbes said cattily of the absence of Governor George W. Bush from Thursday night's Republican candidates' town meeting in New Hampshire. But then, as Senator Orrin Hatch quickly jabbed, Forbes is sufficiently endowed by his family fortune to avoid the trawling for millions among the special interests...
Dole's departure means, among other things, that the only GOP candidate willing to stand up to the party's anti-gun control orthodoxy is out of the picture. In May, Dole said she would retain the assault weapon ban and support the prohibition of armor-piercing bullets--both common-sense measures anathema to the powerful National Rifle Association...
...would not have helped Dole. That bill aims to ban soft money, unlimited donations to political parties. But it would have been a good first step toward cleaning up our electoral system. If Sens. John S. McCain (R-Ariz.) and Russell D. Feingold (D-Wisc.) can somehow overcome a GOP filibuster next time the bill is introduced, the next step should be to consider public financing of federal elections and primaries...
...ball, Clinton's dropping his push to have the government invest 15 percent of the fund in the stock market. That's not much of a concession; Alan Greenspan's gentle but firm rejection of the Clinton plan this spring drew a lot of water, and the little-government GOP was never going to go for a plan that would result in state ownership of private companies and in effect create a "Department of Investing Everybody's Money." Still, it's a sign that the White House isn't going to let Republicans stake out the fiscal high ground without...
...while the speeches shout '60s Democrats, the plan is taken straight from the '90s GOP. "If you look at what he's doing, they're not '60s mechanisms, they're mostly tax breaks for families," says TIME chief political correspondent Eric Pooley. The comprehensive $2.6 billion plan would include increases in the earned income tax credit and the minimum wage, as well as more funding for Head Start and providing localities with large block grants for child care. Bradley may want to emphasize the tax-break aspects over the lefty-sounding rhetoric ? he could be damaging his chances with...