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...these and other reasons, even Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, whose Finance Committee gave birth to the mainstream bill, gives it little chance of passage. Harold Ickes, the chief White House strategist for health legislation, has warned Clinton that he should avoid embracing the mainstream bill lest he be identified with another failure. At the same time, Leon Panetta, the new White House chief of staff and a veteran of Congress, warns that the President must not write off the efforts of key lawmakers. Upshot: Clinton is left to cheerlead in hoarse whispers from the sidelines...
...alternating monologues that are the book's format) is re-enacted in a single 11-page chapter and merely augmented by bittersweet scenes of them pining at a distance. The uninitiated may find it startling that Bush's political director (Mary) was besotted with Clinton's master strategist (James), but political Washington is smaller and more inbred than Lake Wobegon. Now if either of them had been in love with a tree surgeon from Idaho, that really would have been something. Mary was the one who fretted that her relationship might hurt her career, which says as much about...
There is also a strain of Republican thinking that says courting the charge of obstructionism is a risk worth taking. Gingrich is satisfied that the crime-bill fight left an impression the President had triumphed with a bill that smelled of pork. And via his much faxed newsletter, party strategist William Kristol has been urging that obstructionism in the name of image- building is no vice. A party that opposes the President unyieldingly, he reasons, gets a nice, sharp profile...
...hope that in the final weeks of the campaign, particularly after Congress adjourns in early October, Clinton can galvanize the party base by reminding them, as he did two years ago, why they vote Democratic. "For months the other side has had a corner on intensity," says one party strategist. "That's what we have to turn around before November. No one knows better than they do that November is not long from...
...advance of the plutocrats can be attributed to several trends. With career politicians fallen from esteem, can-do entrepreneurs have stepped in to fill the vacuum. Then there is the huge cost of essential TV and radio campaigns. Political strategist Ken Khachigian estimates that a TV ad seen four or five times over a week by most of the Californian viewing public costs about $500,000. Challengers need lots of money to mount any serious campaign against most incumbents, who benefit from political-action-committee dollars and laws enabling them to carry money from one campaign to the next. Rich...