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...think they ought to balance their budget on the backs of the poor," said Bush in California on Thursday. Compare to Bill Clinton on the same day - "I will not sign a bill that turns its back on these hard-working families" - and you can certainly see why GOP whipmeister Tom DeLay is less than pleased. "It's obvious," DeLay snapped after a gleeful Democrat read him Bush?s comments in the middle of negotiations over that very issue, "the governor's got a lot to learn about Congress...
...Under no circumstances will I vote to spend one penny of the Social Security trust fund on anything but Social Security," declaimed DeLay at the launch. Yet just hours later, the Republican-led Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that the GOP's current spending plan for next year would siphon at least $18 billion of the fund's surplus. And that, it said, was a conservative estimate. DeLay and the rest of the GOP leadership had little to say about the apparently glaring contradiction; the GOP rank and file sound worried. Under nocircumstances? "That's kind of an absolute statement...
...White House, this is all a galloping gift horse. Which is not to say that President Clinton is any better at the thrift thing. But this GOP majority is up against a President with a proven gift for making the Republicans look like coldhearted cowards. "Clinton's effectively raiding Social Security as well," says Dickerson. "They're both way over. But Clinton's doing it in ways like clean-water legislation and education that should be very easy for him to demagogue...
...Although the new fiscal year actually started Friday, the final negotiations on how to budget for it won't take place for weeks. Clinton has already promised to veto some of the Republicans' proposals; most of the rest is mired in some serious GOP infighting. In a particularly poignant example Thursday, a $2 billion cut in foreign aid favored by the party's fiscal hawks (for the money) and neo-isolationists (for the principle) was dragged down by a third GOP faction that wanted to tack on anti-abortion provisions. While Clinton stands back and drawls about "sitting down...
...George W. Bush is trying to keep his enemies closer, he's got a funny way of showing it. Even while extending another GOP olive branch to Pat Buchanan (well, mostly to his supporters), Bush hinted Wednesday night that the nascent Perot-Buchanan Reform party alliance was an attempt to do to Bush what they did to his father: Bring him down. "I've always thought the 1992 campaign was hard for my dad to get traction in the race because of, first, Patrick J. Buchanan, and then Ross Perot inflicted a series of cuts," the younger Bush said...