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...campaigning in New Hampshire when someone began reading aloud the first wire story on Perot's new party, and the group started plotting how to respond. Buchanan, however, joined Perot's attack on lavish congressional pensions, an issue stirring fresh voter outrage since the disclosure that disgraced Senator Bob Packwood will receive $89,000 a year for life. Referring to his rival Dole, a 35-year veteran of Congress, Buchanan quipped, "They'll probably have to increase the federal debt limit when he retires...
...then evading the cops looking to drag you back. It's always a ratings grabber, like when some Republicans in the U.S. Senate locked themselves in their offices to quash a vote on a campaign-finance-reform bill in 1988, causing a sergeant at arms to carry Bob Packwood feetfirst to the Senate floor (after determining that Lowell Weicker was too heavy). The stunt pulled by Democrats in the Texas legislature last week was to avoid a vote on redistricting the state to create more Republican members of Congress...
Rewind to then Senator Bob Packwood's 1992 re-election race against Representative Les AuCoin in Oregon. One Packwood ad featured a Jeopardy-style game show with questions about AuCoin's bounced checks and other allegations. Similar? Actually, identical...
...Democrats think there is evidence the group was illegally enmeshed with George W. Bush's campaign. They note that G.O.P. media consultant Don Sipple made the Packwood ad. Sipple has worked for Wilson and Bush and, frequently, with top Bush strategist Karl Rove. Senator John McCain had a similar experience with a different group just before Super Tuesday last March. He says he's "positive" the Bush camp was in league with the group that attacked...
...pleased to hear that Ireland was defending the story of a possible rape victim but surprised that she was so stinging in her comments about the president. Feminists' hesitancy to condemn Bill Clinton for actions similar to those for which they had rightly vilified Clarence Thomas and Bob Packwood has been extremely troublesome to me. I understand the reason for the double standard, though: Packwood and Thomas were conservatives unlikely to help women's causes in any real way--in that sense, they were fair game for attack. Clinton, on the other hand, is ostensibly "on our side...