Word: nafta
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...current power of the legislative youngsters as expressed in their killing the supercollider marked legislative bravado in and of itself. But any assertion of their power as a unified political force will be limited by the sharp divide spanning party lines that surfaced over NAFTA...
...United States is facing an economic border war. It has nothing to do with NAFTA, but its consequences make Ross Perot's giant sucking sound seem like nothing more that a Dust-Buster. Yet the only skirmish to receive national attention was packaged as a battle about benefits for domestic partners...
More important, Clinton has yet to form a stable coalition, as Reagan did with the so-called Boll Weevil Democrats. Quite the opposite: he prevailed on deficit reduction without a single Republican vote, and on NAFTA with more votes from the G.O.P. than from Democrats. Forming two totally different winning alliances is an impressive feat, but pasting together an ad hoc grouping on every issue is an exhausting and chancy task. Yet it is one that Clinton may well have to keep repeating...
Deep divisions continue within the majority Democratic caucuses. Louisiana Senator John Breaux, who succeeded Clinton as head of the Democratic Leadership Council, predicts that the President will have to rely increasingly on center-right groupings of conservative Democrats and moderate Republicans. NAFTA aside, however, those alliances have been more inclined to oppose the President than to back him. Examples: a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget that the Administration vehemently opposes has important Democratic sponsorship, and bipartisan support has formed behind a health-care reform bill that Clinton dislikes but that has been introduced in the Senate by -- guess...
Perhaps partly restoring his good image in labor's eyes after the struggle over NAFTA, President Clinton ended a pre-Thanksgiving strike by American Airlines flight attendants when he persuaded management to submit the dispute to binding arbitration -- a victory for the workers, who had had this solution in mind from the beginning...