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Buried in her 11-page memo, and largely ignored in the simpleminded caricatures attending it, is a commendation for Rob Shapiro's "Cut and Invest" program. Shapiro was the Clinton campaign's principal economic adviser. He is now at the Progressive Policy Institute, the Washington think tank run by the Democratic Leadership Council, the group of moderate Democrats Clinton once chaired...
CONTRIBUTORS: Bonnie Angelo, Laurence I. Barrett, Jesse Birnbaum, Nina Burleigh, Stanley W. Cloud, Jay Cocks, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Elson, Pico Iyer, Edward L. Jamieson (Consulting Editor), Leon Jaroff, Gregory Jaynes, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, John Rothchild, Richard Schickel, Walter Shapiro, R.Z. Sheppard, John Skow, Martha Smilgis, Mark Alan Stamaty, Richard Stengel, Andrew Tobias, Michael Walsh...
President Clinton should also assume leadership of the Democratic party in Congress, Shapiro said...
...Shapiro stated that Republican political strategy is bound to backfire. When Clinton failed to pass health care legislation, he said, the Republicans moved to the political right, weakening their chances in future presidential elections...
When asked about Clinton's chance of success in the 1996 presidential campaign, Shapiro said he was optimistic. Incumbents have a natural advantage, he said, because they can pass legislation during the race...