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Just two years ago the GOP was predicting that the Lewinsky mess would be the Democrats' Watergate, that it would expose endemic sleaze among the Democratic rank and file and, come election time, would translate into a rousing round of GOP victories. This has largely backfired. GOP approval ratings plummeted following Clinton's impeachment trial, as the public viewed the party as being up to its old "dirty tricks." The longer the Ray investigation drags on, the nastier the GOP looks. That's bad news for any Republican campaigning on a platform of "compassionate conservatism...
...inch-tall centerfold headline, "A $112 Million Mess", would be excessive--even if confined to the editorial page...
...warm sun, the gentle breeze, the beautiful climate of California during spring break could make anyone, even a driven Harvard student, into a lethargic mess for a week...
...even before the election, Putin has begun quietly dropping hints about how he views the state of affairs in Russia today. He knows it is a mess. He pledges loyalty to the man who gave him power, Boris Yeltsin. But asked recently by two Russian journalists to name his heroes, Putin singled out men who had pulled their countries out of chaos and catastrophe--neither of them Yeltsin. One was Charles de Gaulle, who created a solid, centralized state in France (and quickly pulled his country out of a colonial war in Algeria, a conflict that is often compared with...
...talk him out of it. Right? You'd probably have no luck. Cult members lose their ability to think rationally--an impediment that usually recedes about the time disaster joins the ranks. Way too late. Make no mistake: brainwashed tech-stock lovers are in the same mess, only nobody is trying to talk sense into them. Friends, and Grandma too, have all set up quarters in the same compound...