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...good to be true? You bet. Last week the White House conceded that $123 billion of this year's surplus had somehow evaporated. The $158 billion left over is almost entirely made up of Social Security tax receipts--which Bush and congressional leaders have vowed not to touch. And this week the Congressional Budget Office is expected to release even more pessimistic figures, showing the government will tap those funds before the year ends. Cue up the attack ads--the ones in which each side accuses the other of endangering the retirement security of elderly Americans...
...seemed like a poor man's Clinton, a politician who lacked the instincts or talent to get himself out of trouble of his own making. Everything is eerily familiar--the long-suffering wife Carolyn Condit understudying Hillary, the still frames of a Monica look-alike, and the pol trying somehow to appease both his lawyers and his pollsters, all in the same sentence. There was even a haunting "that woman" moment when Condit declared of his wife, "I've been married for 34 years, and I intend to stay married to that woman as long as she'll have...
...blitzkrieg of interviews that followed, Condit seemed, if anything, even more reluctant to sidle up to an apology, having failed somehow to learn the lesson that political survival means always having to say you're sorry. Pressed by Sacramento's KOVR 13-TV for some moist act of contrition to constituents who feel "betrayed," Condit bit back. "If I have hurt or offended anyone, I certainly would apologize," he said. "But I think you ought to take some responsibility in the media for all the misinformation that you guys have put out there...because you didn't set a standard...
...friend (James Gandolfini), a dead-end job and the depressive sense that "life has dealt me some bum cards. Or maybe I didn't play them right." But the Coens do. They lay out their story in pearly, sepulchral black-and-white, infuse the dialogue with mordant wit and somehow blend those two postwar innovations, UFO mania and dry cleaning...
...that to matter, Gore must find a way to reintroduce himself to Americans, to convince them--somehow--that he's not the sore loserman but the funny, self-deprecating guy who conceded the election in the most graceful speech of his life. But as Gore tries to make yet another first impression, you have to wonder about his stage managing. Last week he held a bipartisan conference alongside former Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander, a two-time loser for the G.O.P. nomination. Then Gore ran an election academy in Nashville meant to train 25 young people to be good Democratic field...