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...Lott's misfits are the Republican majority, and he is their natural leader. His formative experiences entwine, like honeysuckle, with those of his chief interlocutor, Bill Clinton--like Lott, an ambitious, working-class son of the South. In a capital that cares more about power than sex, theirs will be the most intriguing coupling of the next four years...
Clinton is the master of the air, of the televised town meeting and the ad campaign. But now the key battles over spending and tax cuts shift to conference rooms, where Lott is master of the ground. He arrives well armed, as the only national leader to emerge from the last election with his power enhanced and his image unsplattered by campaign-finance scandals...
...Lott and Clinton have already filled this moment with suspense and promise: the President himself traveled to Capitol Hill to open negotiations with leaders of the new Congress, and in their own risky goodwill gesture, Lott and the G.O.P. have agreed to work from the President's budget rather than write their own. But last week provided an even more striking example of the pragmatic detente between the two men: after months of private conversations with the President, Lott went public with a proposal that would have the effect of restraining Social Security and other entitlements. He called...
...their private talks, Lott has emphasized to Clinton that if they can join to make one tough decision on the CPI, they can avoid "a hundred tough decisions down the road." The pair already have an unlikely record of cooperation: last summer, shortly after Lott succeeded Bob Dole as Senate majority leader, he surprised both his G.O.P. colleagues and the White House by skillfully brokering deals to pass bills that, with Clinton's signature, reformed welfare, increased the minimum wage and made health insurance more portable for workers changing jobs. Those accomplishments helped ensure the re-election of both...
Their shared personal histories, however, suggest that Lott and Clinton are capable of missing the moment. So which will it be? Will they "hold hands and jump off the cliff" together, as Lott likes to say? Or will they hold hands and tiptoe around unpleasant choices...