Word: gore
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...enough that raising campaign money for Bill Clinton has tarnished Al Gore's image as a saint. Now the question is, Will shouldering the President's agenda make him a political martyr...
...President--whether it was breaking a tie vote in Congress to rescue Clinton's economic program in 1993, or demolishing Ross Perot in a TV duel to save the North American Free Trade Agreement. But now Clinton is looking toward a spot in the history books, and Gore toward one at the top of the Democratic ticket in 2000. To bolster his legacy, Clinton must make choices that could infuriate the most loyal and active Democrats, the ones whose votes Gore will need to tie up a nomination that no longer looks quite so inevitable as it once...
...will be all the worse for Gore if the ultimate budget deal involves fiddling with the Consumer Price Index, an option Clinton took off the table under sharp criticism from Gephardt. The worthy policy--cutting the government's official inflation measure--would leave candidate Gore with a lot of explaining to do to the elderly facing smaller Social Security increases...
Workers on Capitol Hill barely had time to dismantle the scaffolding for Clinton's second Inauguration before the politics of the next presidential election began getting in the way of business in Congress. With Gephardt staking out positions to the left of Gore on a range of issues, Republicans complain they are suddenly finding Clinton far less accommodating than they had hoped. Even Democrats agree. Not only is the White House gauging g.o.p. reaction to each proposal, says Democratic Senator John Breaux of Louisiana, "they also now have to worry about how much of a real political fight it creates...
...Gore rejects the idea that Clinton is holding back on his own priorities out of concern for his political heir. "I see the theory, but I don't see the facts," Gore told TIME last week. "It's just not a real dynamic. This President has been ultrasensitive to every constituency important to him for the last five years, since he got the nomination and since he's been President. It's just silly to project this idea that all of a sudden he's highly responsive to Democratic constituencies...