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...Bush's decision to announce a speedy cutoff for U.S. participation. It makes the operation less controversial at home, but could complicate life for U.S. commanders in Somalia and the peacekeepers who will replace them. The clan chiefs and gang leaders know that the big U.S. force is a lame duck, and they may delay, obstruct or simply dodge the Americans while they are there...
Some change is coming nevertheless, although the dream of public financing appears dead. Congress's incumbents don't want it because they won't yield the financial advantage they currently enjoy. But the voluntary caps on campaign spending that Clinton favors are likely, a reform that seems lame but could be meaningful if voters retaliate against those candidates who won't play along. Clinton's $1,000 PAC-contribution ceiling may fail -- another casualty of Congress's power -- "but we'll get it down somewhat, and maybe to the $1,000 level if the boss wants to spend some political...
...lame excuses for shockingly poor performance by these same individuals and their loose talk about the long-range merely serves to obfuscate real issues. It attempts to hide inexcusable blunders of the last five to six years by "averaging" them with previous more acceptable performances. This is nothing less than a cheap statistical game played against the unsuspecting president and the governing bodies. No refuge from reality should be sought in easy dismissive remarks about the long-range. This is unworthy of any analytical mind and contrary to common sense. In the long-run, as Lord John Maynard Keynes said...
...preparing to freeze salaried wages and again suspend executive bonuses, selling off money-losing operations like National Car Rental and stopping production of its slow-selling Cadillac Allante ($61,675) sport coupe. Not even the Allante's powerful '93 Northstar engine seems able to get the auto industry's lame giant moving. (See related story on page...
That's the problem with lame ducks. Though Congress will probably treat him like a pariah, Bush can still do plenty on his own. (Do the words "Iraq" and "Iran" ring any bells?) With our faces turned to Little Rock, Bush could sabotage things for the president to come...