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What happens when conservatives die and go to heaven, and discover they may not like it there after all? Surely this moment in American history is as close to paradise as conservatives could ever have dreamed. The budget is not just balanced; it is running a surplus so big that it could total $6 trillion over the next 15 years. A Democratic President travels to the poorest corners of the country, such a convert to the miracles of private enterprise that he brings with him not a bushel of federal promises but a bunch of business leaders whom...
...hand the Democrats another issue for 2000." When it comes to touchy-feely stuff like Grandma and her heart pills, Clinton has it all over them -- and they know it. With that House majority looking thinner than ever, Republicans -- who would like to give back a lot of the surplus in tax cuts -- have learned that when they try to shout Clinton down, they lose. Kick up a little fuss and hammer out a deal, and they can save the larger argument (solvency) for a less formidable opponent (Al Gore) or a fellow traveler (George...
OLIVE GREEN = tarragon, aloe, surplus, bayleaf...
...president came out of the White House on Monday to announce good news about what counts most for most Americans: money. Because the economy is going so well, he said, the federal government expects to rake in even more cash than the government?s prior best estimates -- a budget surplus $1 trillion bigger over the next 15 years than previously thought...
...bounty, the priorities of which the President wants to be the first to define. The new money, he said, would first be used to save Social Security by permitting Social Security taxes to be allocated "for Social Security, period," rather than being needed to help balance the budget. The surplus, said the President, would next be used to strengthen Medicare and to fund his prescription drug benefit plan, details of which leaked out over the weekend before the official announcement on Tuesday. And lastly -- in a signal to both Republicans and Democrats to come to the Social Security and Medicare...