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...election year, if anyone nudges the President's hand on this legislation, it won't be Congress - it will be the voters. No politician wants to start off the election cycle with a "victory" over extremely expensive - and extremely popular - prescription drug benefit legislation. So if Republicans prevail with a slightly less costly plan, they?ll spin it as a triumph of responsible government over the whims of spendthrift Dems. And if the Dems are the big winners, we?ll get an earful about the victory of the people over tightwad Republicans...
...many years covering politicians, I've come to the depressing conclusion that most of the ones that aren't weird are boring. Very few pass the International Herald Tribune test, which goes like this. Imagine you're on a Mediterranean beach and you see a politician out of the corner of your eye?do you hide behind that morning's I.H.T...
...president of New School University in New York City, is one of the handful of pols for whom it's worth interrupting a holiday. Kerrey has always had a slightly mysterious intelligence, as if he were looking for something that he could neither find nor define. For a politician, this was a handicap; watching him run for the Democratic nomination, when he was openly uncomfortable with the necessary idiocies of campaigning, would have been merely painful were it not grimly fascinating...
Throughout his Senate years Moynihan gained national notice as a writer as well as politician. He wrote 18 books and his latest, called Secrecy: The American Experience, criticizes the U.S. government for concealing information both from the public and from government officials...
...Moynihan the politician and policy-wonk has returned to academia. He currently teaches at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs...