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With Hillary Clinton's senatorial campaign managing to entangle itself in its own feet while running in place, New Yorkers find themselves returning to the question of whether or not Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has precisely the right temperament for the Senate--a deliberative body in which the acceptable responses to a colleague's disagreeing with you have traditionally not included trying to have a homeless shelter put in his neighborhood...
...Yankees ticker-tape parade. (The first two actions were reversed by courts on First Amendment grounds; the barred legislators did not go to court to test the proposition that standing on the platform like a big shot is a constitutionally protected form of expression.) At this point, New Yorkers would not be surprised to hear that someone who took a position contrary to the mayor's in a late-night discussion of how a Jack Dempsey-Rocky Marciano fight would turn out had awakened the next morning to find a municipal water-treatment plant being built on his block...
...schoolyard level. In fact, Jesse Helms has carved out a specialty in just that sort of thing, the way some other Senators have made themselves masters of farm policy or defense appropriations. But the arsenal of retaliatory weapons is rather thin. Expecting Giuliani to operate in the Senate, some New Yorkers think, is like asking a saloon brawler to conduct his business in a place that lacks both barstools and pool cues...
...crunch could come on his first bill. Judging from his style in New York, he would refer to colleagues who spoke against it as idiotic or disgusting or sick--even if they'd presented cogent arguments against legislation that would grant Senators, as a matter of personal privilege, the right to put homeless shelters in other people's neighborhoods...
...numbers add up," said Ohio Republican John Kasich, chairman of the House Budget Committee. Moreover, he asserted, they will continue to add up because of conservative assumptions used to create them. His Senate counterpart, New Mexico Republican Pete Domenici, pointed out that those estimates factor in two mild recessions sometime during the next 10 years and include assumptions that "do not contemplate the kind of growth that is actually going to occur." That would imply surpluses even greater than projected--a prospect confirmed by Allen Sinai, chief global economist for Primark Decision Economics, a forecasting firm. Sinai's "baseline" forecast...