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Coalition breaks down over right-wing bent of proposed Minister of Agriculture...
...course, only a couple of months, ago, a lunatic crashed his Cessna into the White House. And a few weeks later some idiot fired a couple dozen rounds into the West Wing. While Clinton was upstairs watching television...
Nevertheless, Forbes -- a conservative publication, ordinarily not averse to a bit of flag waving -- brings enormous sympathy to this tale of Americans abandoning their country. It seems that "victim chic," ordinarily decried as a left-wing phenomenon, knows no bounds of reason or ideology. These people, after all, are less like traditional refugees than they are like the Americans who went to Canada during the Vietnam War. They are fleeing the draft -- of their wallets, not their bodies. It's a smaller imposition, some might think. Those who fled in the 1960s were motivated, at best, by principled opposition...
...G.O.P.'s attempt to consolidate its hold on Congress and win the White House in 1996 will be determined in the struggle between the party's bomb- throwing congressional wing and its governing faction in the statehouses and mayor's offices -- both of which showed remarkable success in Tuesday's voting. To be sure, Republican conservatives will also clash with Republican moderates in Congress, like Senator John Chafee of Rhode Island and Representative Jim Leach of Iowa. But there the conservatives will win, because the moderates' numbers in both parties in Congress have been decimated by retirements and by last...
...political tremors for the next two years as the Speaker's chair is transferred to the often corrosively partisan Newt Gingrich. The Speaker-in-waiting sent only a limited peace signal to the Clinton Administration -- "Cooperation, yes; compromise, no," -- and wasted little time in blasting "counterculture McGovernicks" and "left-wing elitists" at the White House. Among the Democratic war-horses sent out to pasture by the electorate: Illinois' Dan Rostenkowski, Texas' Jack Brooks and Washington's Tom Foley, the current Speaker...