Word: governability
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...here by accident. After a campaign in which the two parties together spent more than half a billion dollars getting their messages out, the voters finally had their chance to send one back: We have too little faith in your instincts or discipline to let either of you govern unchaperoned. And we have too many problems that have to be solved to trust either of you to do it alone. All through the campaign, whenever Bob Dole and Bill Clinton stumbled into any issue that could sting them, they volunteered to "take it out of politics" and hand...
...Republicans' spin on the history question is that history is still on their side, and its unlikely messenger is Bill Clinton: he "stole" the election by campaigning as a Republican. But this is a tremendous exaggeration. Clinton did not campaign (or govern) as a McGovernite Democrat any more than Bob Dole campaigned as a Goldwaterite Republican. Both parties and both men have accommodated to history; neither can claim history's momentum. Dole, who voted against the creation of Medicare in 1965--a principled, conservative stance--spent the 1996 campaign passionately insisting that he wanted to "save" Medicare...
...governs by caucus, seeking Democratic votes to the exclusion of Republicans, Clinton will be forced repeatedly to sell his soul to the left in Congress. So the only way for Clinton to govern effectively, and to govern in the center, is to form a bipartisan government. He needs to reach out immediately to the Republicans and bring them to the White House. The President, a peacemaker abroad, must be one at home...
Weinberg does point to certain precedents that help govern the council's decisions...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "We must begin restoring confidence in our ability to govern ourselves, integrity in the political process, and dependable individual and community values...