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...self-aware--a few of them exist--know they're only going through the motions. In 1964, for example, even Barry Goldwater's fabulists knew they were fighting the good fight and little more. In years like this, the scent of triumph is palpable. Following their 1994 midterm sweep, the Republicans are salivating. They believe their prescriptions command wide appeal: smaller government, lower taxes and fewer, less costly social programs. They're confident as well that the President's attempts to retard their march will fail or be perceived as obstructionist and that his embrace of some G.O.P. nostrums will...
...should Republicans be out on the hustings so soon after the midterm elections? We all know that they think. What we don't know is whether they mean it or not. Nothing that is said at a luncheon in New Hampshire makes a dime's worth of difference when the show so clearly is in Washington and the keynote figure in the party is Newt Gingrich. A lot of mouths are moving, but his is the voice we hear. Senator Dole has been in Washington so long that all his edges have worn off--when asked about burning issues...
With the drudgery of midterm season rolling around, I thought it might be appropriate to begin this occasional series on a light note by reviewing a good, old-fashioned video game...
...dreary days after the disastrous midterm elections, one topic made the often volcanic President Clinton erupt more than any other: his political consultants. "How could we have paid them so much and done so poorly?" he once shouted in the Oval Office. But now, just three months later, those fires have clearly cooled. Not only have most of the offenders been welcomed back, but they also have been placed at the heart of the White House's most important and difficult challenge: getting the President re-elected...
...above all others that the federal government has been spineless in dealing with a problem that has little urgency for present voters. When President Bill Clinton showed the requisite backbone and cut over $600 billion from the deficit, the voters rewarded him with a stunning rebuke in the November midterm elections. Nevertheless, the new Republican majority in Congress has promised to balance the budget once...