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...Phil, at Tampa...
...full year before the 1996 primary season, nine (count 'em) G.O.P. presidential wannabes bundled off to New Hampshire to strut their stuff at a fund raiser. Led by a schmoozy Bob Dole ("I'm a little more realistic, a little more relaxed"), the group, which included Texas Senator Phil Gramm, former Education Secretary Lamar Alexander, Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, California Congressman Robert Dornan, Conservative commentator Pat Buchanan, Indiana Senator Richard Lugar, former Labor Secretary Lynn Martin and ex-State Department official Alan Keyes, took turns bashing Bill Clinton and trying to distinguish themselves from one another...
...affirmative-action programs-some of them in place for more than three decades-under fierce attack by the Republicans, President Clinton put his finger to the wind and ordered "an intense, urgent" review to determine which ones work and which ones could be abandoned. One G.O.P. presidential candidate, Phil Gramm, has vowed to end certain major set-aside programs on-he hopes-his first day in office...
This early skirmish in the Republican revolution shows that Phil Gramm's America is a nation of people who think that only they pay for government, and who resent the fact that their money benefits anyone else. It was that America Gramm addressed when he declared--at his $4.1 million fundraiser--"We are one victory away from getting our money back...
...else would Gramm save your money? In his speech, he said he would "stop building prisons like Holiday Inns" and instead, push for vigorous use of the death penalty. In the final analysis, that's Phil Gramm's answer to the spirit of the moment: we'll get our money back, no matter how may people we have to kill...