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Tort reform seemed inevitable, but after six weeks of negotiations in the spring of 1995, the package stalled over the issue of capping the punitive damages that juries use to punish defendants. Bush and the Republicans wanted a cap of $100,000; Bullock and the Democrats wanted it set at $1 million. When Bush refused to budge, state senator David Sibley, a Republican ally, told him the bill could die. Bush invited Sibley to the mansion for dinner that night. While they were eating, the phone rang. It was Bullock, calling to deliver something he was famous...
When TIME asked Bush why he supported the sternest welfare measures, he resorted to standard-issue conservative rhetoric. "I don't buy the argument that old-style welfare programs are compassionate. Creating a sense of dependency is not compassionate." But why punish children for the sins of their parents? "We never said we were not going to fund children," he claimed, against the evidence. "They'd [still] have health insurance and food stamps...
...problem nor the solution. They carried signs saying END CORPORATE RULE. And the masked hoodlums who turned the city into a battleground didn't trash government offices; they went after Niketown, Starbucks and the Gap. The labor-environmental coalition that stymied the WTO wants powerful global organizations that will punish companies that exploit workers and pollute the countryside. Ask them what they want Congress to do, and you'll get a puzzled look. For them, Congress is pretty much beside the point...
...goods to attack? President Clinton could have slapped the 100% tariff on, say, Mercedes-Benz autos imported from Germany, fine wines from France, or elegant women's shoes from Italy. But that might have provoked retaliation by the Europeans against major American exports. So instead the President chose to punish smaller and less important European companies--companies that furnished bath products to Reinert, prints to Kaplan and batteries to Dove. In short, the Administration came down with a heavy foot on relatively powerless citizens. People who, like 99% of the population, contribute little or no money directly to politicians...
...that Lindner had dinner in the White House, attended a coffee klatch there for the truly generous and slept in the Lincoln Bedroom. Along the way, he periodically met with then U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor and his staff, the officials who ultimately sought the trade sanctions intended to punish the Europeans and force them to give Lindner what he wanted...