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Babbitt made his exit gracefully in a quip-filled Washington news conference. "Look, I'm not going to slash my throat if we don't raise taxes tomorrow," said the former Arizona governor, who had asked voters to stand up for a national sales tax to reduce the deficit...
Opponents of the authority fear that it would be an unnecessary expansion of presidential power. A president with the power to veto individual appropriations could slash his opponents' favorite programs and leave intact his supporters' plans. Fearing for their re-election chances, legislators could become completely subservient to the executive...
...revivify Bush and galvanize his campaign. "We're getting phone calls now from fence sitters we've been after for weeks," said Bill Cahill, a Bush staffer in New Hampshire. At a campaign stop in South Dakota, Bush found dozens of his listeners wearing lapel buttons with a diagonal slash across "Dan Rather." At Bush's national headquarters, an aide scurried through the lobby with a long memo draft titled "Reaping the Benefits of the Rather Interview...
...that wall may be made of rubber. Beanpot futility gives the Crimson a lot of bounce. As soon as the slash falls into the loss column, Harvard flys back, as if snapped out of the jaws of a rubber band...
...take much partisan advantage from the Republican deficit distress. Gephardt's notions of bitter medicine, for example, do not extend to Iowa voters; he fervently backs a farm bill that he admits would increase food prices. Dukakis still clings to his widely ridiculed notion that stricter IRS enforcement would slash $35 billion from the deficit. Dukakis does not want to discuss new taxes, claims Chris Edley, his campaign-issues director, because he fears that they would draw attention from his IRS compliance scheme. Gore is equally vague. All he offers is platitudes and a modest grab bag of $16 billion...