Players Conventional Wisdom B. Clinton ( + ) The speech: FDR. The financing: Ronald Reagan. The mechanics: Rube Goldberg. H. Clinton ( + ) An Eleanor Roosevelt for our times, with more hairdos than HMO menu. T. Gore (+,-) Tipper tips balance for mental-health coverage. Now, back to the gym. I. Magaziner (+,-) If health reform turns into Clinton’s Vietnam, he’s the Robert McNamara. R. Dole (+,-) Need to do somethin’. I know it. You know it. Even Newt Gingrich knows it. Players Conventional Wisdom Lobbyists ( + ) Payday! Payday! Last jackpot before campaign-finance reform. Seniors ( + ) Pills, other new bennies…Bill, can’t you means-test this one? Juniors ( - ) Healthy Generation Xers will pick up the tab for Prozac-popping boomers. Doctors ( - ) Prepare to bag the Lexus and start a car pool. (Hey, maybe that’s tax deductible!) Sin (+,-) Ask not what smoking will do to you, but what cig taxes will do for the country.
