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...since Bush v. Gore have so many constitutional lawyers jumped on a case. First Amendment liberal Floyd Abrams has joined Starr. McCain and Feingold are assembling their own impressive team to help U.S. Solicitor General Ted Olson defend the law. Sources say former Clinton Solicitor General Seth Waxman will lead lawyers from Common Cause, Democracy 21 and other reform groups...
...West Wing was Clinton-era wish fulfillment--that the White House could have a moral compass--the new series are post-Bush-vs.-Gore, post-9/11 wish fulfillment: that young people can love public service, that a divided government can set aside politics and that the CIA can get the bad guys...
...rematch with George W. Bush seems to be what Gore has in mind. At a recent dinner for Democratic fund raisers in Manhattan, Gore ripped into Bush's handling of the presidency. The President's philosophy is "speak loudly and carry a small stick," he said. Fund raiser Robert Zimmerman, who organized the dinner, says, "We saw how energized he was and how enthusiastic he was about being in the national debate." The pointed critique may have been a test run for next month, when Gore will return to his Alamo, giving a speech to the Florida Democratic convention. Gore...
...difficult to find a Democrat in Washington who doesn't say publicly that the nomination is Gore's if he wants it. But it's just as hard to find one who privately expresses any enthusiasm for the prospect. That doesn't bother Zimmerman, who says, "The Beltway underestimates Al and Tipper's very strong national following." Maybe so, but many big-and not-so-big-name Democrats are discovering that urgent matters demand their presence in states that happen to hold early presidential primaries. Even Gore's running mate seems to have got the bug: last weekend Senator...
Besides, men are frustrated that we don't have our own Oprah. Ours are all embarrassing flameouts like Robert Bly, or the Promise Keepers, or Al Gore the week that Naomi Wolf made him wear flannel. The best we have right now are Adam Carolla and Jimmy Kimmel of The Man Show, and those guys wouldn't even be able to fill out their live audience if they didn't liberally sprinkle the studio with pole dancers...