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...billion needed to finance his tax cuts and balance the budget in six years, Dole calls on $147 billion from supply-side activity and an additional $217 billion in spending reductions on top of the $393 billion proposed in the Republican budget last June. But unlike his colleagues in Newt Gingrich's Congress who dared propose cuts in Medicare, Dole does not plan to meddle with entitlements. And on defense he's promising to spend "too much" rather than too little. So what's left on the table accounts for only about 23% of the budget. Analysts at the nonpartisan...
...that political rookie Frank Cremeans redecorated the roadsides of his sprawling Ohio district with billboards urging voters to SEND THE WHITE HOUSE A MESSAGE. These days his campaign is more likely to draw attention to the personal thank-you note Cremeans got from Bill Clinton last month for bucking Newt Gingrich and supporting a 90[cents]-an-hour minimum-wage hike. Fellow G.O.P. freshman Phil English, who maligned his 1994 opponent by labeling him a "Clinton clone," got a note too; he was so moved he announced it at a news conference back home in Erie, Pennsylvania. But neither Republican...
...President showed real backbone in his fight with Newt Gingrich and the Republican Congress over the budget. The people saw strength in Clinton's actions, in contrast to the Republicans' faulty strategizing and disregard for collateral damage. Consultant Dick Morris may have got to play in the sandbox with the big players for a while, but his influence was primarily ancillary--not to mention cynical and pandering to the nth degree. Morris' gimmickry does not address the real concerns of the people. Voters will cast their ballots on decisive pocketbook issues, just as they always do. JEFF SOFTLEY Los Angeles...
...bureaucrats didn't invent beach volleyball, who did? i ask that question because ever since this summer's Republican National Convention I've been contemplating the moment when Newt Gingrich, in the course of introducing an Olympic volleyballer to the cheering delegates, said, "A mere 40 years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about...
...values rhetoric allowed President Clinton to do something else that has dramatically changed the image of his party. For the past 20 years, Democrats have been seen as the party most closely associated with the counterculture and the Hollywood and New York cultural elite. Republicans from Spiro Agnew to Newt Gingrich have used this image to attack the Democrats for their presumed distance from the basic norms and ideals most Americans live...