Boy, we take a week off and look what happens! Here it is, the whole sordid story, nothing held back, and directly excerpted from wire-service reports: “EDGARTOWN. President Clinton’s vacation dizzying swirl. Princess Diana, Clinton, Barbra Streisand’s wedding, Tiger Woods. Clintons. Maybe not. Bliss Broyard, Mary Steenburgen and Ted Danson, nineteenth-century farmhouse. President and Mrs. Clinton partied. They went sailing. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Victoria Reggie, 52-foot schooner, Mya, sons Patrick and Ted, and Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg and her husband, Ed, saxophonist Richard Sherr, ‘Hail to the Chief,’ John-John. Chelsea, 17. John F. Kennedy Jr., nudity, September issue of George magazine, says he shot a 79. First Lady. Merv Griffin, Carly Simon, Jimmy Buffett, William Styron, wife Rose. Private plane, Katharine Graham, the Washington Post. President Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, ‘several intense exchanges of words’ about [heh heh heh] a game of Scrabble. Paulo Flecha de Lima, Brazil’s ambassador to the United States, and his wife, Lucia. Official denials. Is Diana with Dodi Fayed, heir to Harrod’s department store in London? As for Streisand, despite numerous denials, James Brolin, nuptial news. The Clintons. On the other hand, Michael Jordan.”
The Midwest Republican Leadership Conference is a gathering of the GOP faithful, not a Philadelphia Society or Christian Coalition meeting. That those assembled nonetheless cheered as Steve Forbes, Dan Quayle, and other presidential aspirants who blasted Beltway GOP accommodationism should prove that opponents of the budget deal have won the argument at the grassroots. Conservatives, disaffected from the GOP establishment, are looking for a national spokesman not beholden to its orthodoxies.
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