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...Veers Right The Republican National Committee is considering a proposal to make party funding to candidates conditional on support for a total ban on partial-birth abortions. Is the GOP going to burn its big tent...
...Finger or not, Clinton may have had the upper hand all along. TIME's Justice-watcher Elaine Shannon says that Republicans' threats sound hollow. "There was some talk that the committee would retaliate by holding up some judicial appointments," she says ? but as the GOP remembers all too well, shut-down politics is a dangerous game. "Who does that hurt more?" asks Shannon. "The side that provoked it, or the side that causes the gridlock? It's generally the latter...
...Clinton's calculated caution will disappoint Republicans, for whom Kyoto has already become the first real battleground of the 2000 election (not to mention the '98 budget and midterms). For the first time since Fred Thompson's hearings disbanded, the GOP smells blood ? and its best chance to sink some teeth into the Vice President...
Disturbing the Dead As Democratic donor Larry Lawrence's body is disinterred from Arlington National Cemetery, will the most macabre scandal to grip the Clinton administration backfire on the GOP...
...Fred Thompson would get back to writing legislation, if Trent Lott cared a little more about his country and a little less about his party, if Jesse Helms would just get off his high horse...But the responsibility to make Washington more productive does not lie solely with the GOP. Rather than lead the Democrats back to the past, Gephardt and company must accept the potential gain of engaging in cautious cooperation with the GOP...