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...elite as an all-purpose epithet, meaning little more than someone or something he doesn't like. Just since the election he has applied the term to directors of art museums ("self-selected elites using your tax money and my tax money to pay off their friends"), to the Bipartisan Entitlement Reform Commission ("driven by elite values"), to people who send E-mail messages supportive of President Clinton ("urbanites make up the Internet elite," according to a Gingrich spokesman) and, of course, time and again, to the "elite media" or "media elite." If this kind of talk is not class...
...President quickly evaporated following his address, as Capitol Hill returned to the nitty-gritty of governance. Republicans and some Democrats let it be known that they were prepared to repeal the recently enacted ban on assault weapons, the President's threat of a veto notwithstanding. And a growing bipartisan chorus continued voicing dissatisfaction with the President's $40 billion emergency-loan-guarantee package for Mexico, which many characterized as a bailout for wealthy investors. The President, meanwhile, indicated that he would wait and sound out his staunch Republican foes before proposing a specific increase in the minimum wage...
...comfortably exceeding the two-thirds majority needed. The measure, which is stripped of a controversial provision that would have required a three-fifths majority vote for future tax increases, now goes to the Senate, where it faces a more uncertain fate. The Senate, meanwhile, approved by a bipartisan vote of 86 to 10 a bill restricting the power of Congress to impose unfunded mandates upon the states...
...them lawyers, for dallying over words when the public was crying for police protection. ``Sometimes I find it rather disgusting. And it goes on and on,'' Bono said. ``And pompously.'' His remark, coming as it did in the course of a discussion of constitutional rights, was met with stunned bipartisan silence. Nobody ever said the revolution was going to be easy...
Debate at the luncheon was lively as Streisand, an active campaigner for the Clinton administration, asked the bipartisan group to introduce themselves and to describe their political interests...