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...weeks Clinton has insisted that any excesses were the fault of misguided staff members at the Democratic National Committee. But the Ickes papers show the President deeply in synch with the whole fevered enterprise. The best proof is his jottings on a proposal put before him by Terry McAuliffe, his chief fund raiser, in January 1995, just as the G.O.P. congressional majority was settling in. McAuliffe, who wanted to reward old party supporters and "energize" prospective ones, suggested that the White House offer jogging, golf or coffee with the President. He also named 10 big Democratic Party supporters who might...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "Newt Gingrich and his special-interest allies aren't just out of touch. They're out of step. They're out of synch. They're out of bounds...
Where was Dole in all this? In and out of synch. As a Congressman in the early '60s he steered clear of racial politics. Dole supported the major civil rights bills, a political possibility for him because he represented a wheat-farming district that was less than 1% black, where racial friction was about as much of a problem as overcrowding. When the New Frontier evolved into the Great Society, he voted against some War on Poverty measures like public-housing subsidies and the bill that established Medicare. But his Small Government conservatism was open to the Big Government payout...
This surreally cliched plot is made even more hyperbolic by the fact that it is indeed sung. All the way through. In French. To the accompaniment of a synthetic, Esquivel-esque cocktail jazz. For the English-speaking viewer, the experience of watching auto mechanics lip-synch their way through so much ear-coating ultrasynth reaches that special level of pleasurableness which is just shy of unbearable...
...skillfully maneuvered for every job she's ever had. She arrived in the capital as a Great Society Democrat, became an independent during the Nixon years and converted to the Republican Party when she married Bob Dole. (Bedfellows make strange politics.) Her ideological transformations were perfectly in synch with each of her moves up the Washington hierarchy...