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...because Starr--though he tried to portray himself as an earnest public servant guided only by his reverence for the law--couldn't help veering, sometimes coyly, into political finger wagging. In the middle of his sober presentation there was Starr embracing the three Democratic Senators--Pat Moynihan, Bob Kerrey and Joe Lieberman--who had dared go to the floor in August to say that Clinton's private behavior was a public offense...
...gone in the next election, along with many other Democrats who had come to town on Clinton's coattails.) The Senate passed the package by a single vote as well, and the fight was even uglier. His powers of persuasion failing him with his onetime presidential rival Bob Kerrey, Clinton found himself shouting into the telephone at the Nebraska Senator, "F___ you!" He got Kerrey's vote, but Democrats wondered whether it had been worth the price when Clinton nimbly disavowed his tax hikes three years later...
...worried that his speech, in which Lieberman roasted Clinton's behavior as "immoral" and "disgraceful," will break the spell that has held most Democrats back from putting real distance between themselves and the President. Two other highprofile Democrats, New York's Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Nebraska's Bob Kerrey, followed Lieberman to the podium to say they agreed with him. Lieberman made his speech despite appeals from White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles and Senate minority leader Tom Daschle that he hold off, at least until the President had returned from his trip abroad. But afterward Daschle came...
...Clinton is an unusually good liar," Senator Bob Kerrey once told Esquire magazine. "Unusually good." But this isn't quite true either. President Clinton is an extraordinary politician, a uniquely gifted product of a political culture in which telling the whole truth about small matters is simply one possible tactic among many. He is a master of the fudges, fibs, hedges, exaggerations and omissions that grease the wheels of public relations. Most pols will employ them now and then to various purposes--to flatter allies, condemn opponents, cast themselves in a happy light--and more often than not the public...
Moynihan said he and Senator Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.) would soon unveil "The Social Security Solvency Act of 1998," calling for a 10-year, $800 billion cut in payroll taxes and the introduction of a "pay-as-you-go" system that would take in only as much money as the system needed in a given year...