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■ Bob Dole’s bold, completely unforeseen move sends contributions to Republican National Committee way up: before speech RNC was collecting $180 per hour, afterwards $2,600. Dole’s favorable rating jumped from 43 to 51 per cent in CNN/Time poll in immediate aftermath of speech. … In over-the-top Newsweek essay on Dole, Mark Helprin, novelist and author of resignation speech, explains that for someone living in the Plains “courage begins to come naturally, and soon it rolls in like the tide, and then it becomes the only way to live.” . . . House Majority Leader Dick Armey had warned that Dole would nonetheless lose the election if he didn’t embrace far- reaching tax reform. Now that Dole has met with Steve Forbes to talk economic growth, it seems likelier the Kansan will embrace a bold tax plan. According to supply-sider Jude Wanniski, “Both Haley Barbour and Newt Gingrich have told Dole that a dinky little tax-cut- ting idea is not going to cut it.” . . . Impressive GOP House freshman Sam Brownback is running all-out for nomination to Dole Senate seat, though Kansas Gov. Bill Graves is likely to pick Lt. Gov. Sheila Frahm to fill vacancy until special election.

■ Bill Clinton moves right on welfare, crime, same-sex marriage. Maureen Dowd writes of Clinton: “He moves from the left wing to the right wing because what he really believes in is the West Wing.” . . . After Clinton endorses GOP same-sex marriage bill, Human Rights Campaign retaliates by revoking invitation to George Stephanopoulos to speak at San Francisco fund-raiser; other gay-rights advocates consider platform fight on the issue at Democratic convention. . . . Republicans discovered that Clinton proposals for cutting off teen welfare mothers who don’t live with an adult or attend school were already contained in current law or were beyond President’s authority. . . . AFL-CIO runs TV ads attacking Republican freshmen for congressional pay raise, neglecting to note that pay raise occurred back in 1989, in a Democratic-controlled Congress. . . . Meanwhile PACs have been hedging their bets on GOP maintaining control of Congress: Democrats received 51 per cent of PAC contributions in first three months of 1996, up from 39 per cent in all of 1995.

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■ Bob Dole’s bold, completely unforeseen move sends contributions to Republican National Committee way up: before speech RNC was collecting $180 per hour, afterwards $2,600. Dole’s favorable rating jumped from 43 to 51 per cent in CNN/Time poll in immediate aftermath of speech. … In over-the-top Newsweek essay on Dole, Mark Helprin, novelist and author of resignation speech, explains that for someone living in the Plains “courage begins to come naturally, and soon it rolls in like the tide, and then it becomes the only way to live.” . . . House Majority Leader Dick Armey had warned that Dole would nonetheless lose the election if he didn’t embrace far- reaching tax reform. Now that Dole has met with Steve Forbes to talk economic growth, it seems likelier the Kansan will embrace a bold tax plan. According to supply-sider Jude Wanniski, “Both Haley Barbour and Newt Gingrich have told Dole that a dinky little tax-cut- ting idea is not going to cut it.” . . . Impressive GOP House freshman Sam Brownback is running all-out for nomination to Dole Senate seat, though Kansas Gov. Bill Graves is likely to pick Lt. Gov. Sheila Frahm to fill vacancy until special election.

■ Bill Clinton moves right on welfare, crime, same-sex marriage. Maureen Dowd writes of Clinton: “He moves from the left wing to the right wing because what he really believes in is the West Wing.” . . . After Clinton endorses GOP same-sex marriage bill, Human Rights Campaign retaliates by revoking invitation to George Stephanopoulos to speak at San Francisco fund-raiser; other gay-rights advocates consider platform fight on the issue at Democratic convention. . . . Republicans discovered that Clinton proposals for cutting off teen welfare mothers who don’t live with an adult or attend school were already contained in current law or were beyond President’s authority. . . . AFL-CIO runs TV ads attacking Republican freshmen for congressional pay raise, neglecting to note that pay raise occurred back in 1989, in a Democratic-controlled Congress. . . . Meanwhile PACs have been hedging their bets on GOP maintaining control of Congress: Democrats received 51 per cent of PAC contributions in first three months of 1996, up from 39 per cent in all of 1995.