Because of the relatively narrow margins that divide the parties, moderates can still broker deals that have a great moderating influence on issues form tax cuts to judicial fights.
The overall problem the Republican Party has is it is increasingly looking like Tammany Hall, ... An odor of sleaziness is enveloping the Republicans and seeping into the administration.
That romance was over before it started.
This splits the Republican coalition. It's only because social conservatives view other issues as more important that they have been able to overlook this transgression.
It's like an arms race. Once it's engaged, you have to match the other side.
The moderate instinct is that the country is in crisis, and we have to find some degree of reconciliation and unity in the interests of the nation.
The last thing you needed was a Martha Stewart problem. He doesn't even have a good clothing line or a popular television show.
Privatization is at best in hibernation, and at worst awaiting a second Bush term, if there is one. But it's just not going to happen during 2002, which is an election year, and while we may be recovering from a recession, or still in one.
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