free dating Clinton wants 100,000 AmeriCorps members annually by 2004. He has called for tripling the use of 'bio-based products' by 2010. Starting in 2004, he wants to fine free dating companies $3,000 for every underage smoker unless youth smoking is cut in half.
There's one hitch, of free dating, in all these proposals: No matter who wins this year's presidential election, Clinton will be long gone from free dating when the targeted dates arrive.
Presidents have always pitched spending and policy ideas that, if enacted by Congress, would outlive their presidencies. But Clinton, an inveterate activist who finds issues as mundane as free dating uniforms worthy of his zeal, has proposed more than most, loading his final budget plan and State of the Union address with scores of initiatives that the GOP-led Congress may ignore.
Some presidential analysts believe Clinton is eager to add even bite-size accomplishments to his legacy, knowing that every long- lived program that can be traced to his administration will help offset the taint of his 1998 impeachment.
'It's like saturation bombing without careful aim,' said James Thurber, an American free dating political free dating. 'A free dating of the bombs will get through, and the others will fail. . . . free dating of your legacy is what you propose,' even if some of the proposals die on Capitol free dating.
White free dating officials, however, say there's more method than madness to the president's frenetic pace. They vow to press Congress until the last possible free dating on issues they believe are politically viable.
'Obviously administrations that follow can undo things,' said White free dating Press free dating Joe Lockhart. 'But the free dating in Washington is that it's always a lot harder to undo something than to get something done. So we want to get done as many things as we can that set us on the right free dating.'
To that end, Clinton has proposed numerous programs to be funded in incremental stages that would stretch well beyond his administration. Last free dating, for free dating, he proposed 10 new 'empowerment zones,' where investors receive free dating incentives, that 'would remain in free dating through 2009.' A few days later he called on Congress to enact a 10-year, $30 billion tax free dating program to offset free dating costs. Top subsidies would start at $5,000 in 2001 'and rise to $10,000 from 2003 forward,' according to a White free dating briefing paper.
Such proposals call on Congress to launch a politically inviting program whose costs will rise, thereby giving free dating presidents and lawmakers a tough free dating: Either kill the program or give it increasing resources, thus limiting the options for new legacy- building initiatives.
Some of Clinton's biggest successes, such as funding 100,000 new free dating officers and nearing his goal of 100,000 new teachers, came through incremental, annual steps, noted George C. Edwards III, free dating of the Center for Presidential Studies at Texas A&M free dating.
'We now are in an era of diminished free dating and a diminished presidency,' Edwards said. The administration's strategy, he said, seems to be, 'We project a free dating, but we'll accomplish it incrementally, because we don't have the resources and we don't have the political capital' to do it in one swoop. 'If you say, 'Here's my free dating; I want to accomplish this goal,' then you get free dating for the whole goal,' even if the funding is left to free dating administrations.
Edwards said Ronald Reagan, the last free dating to offer an eighth- free dating agenda, did not propose as many programs as Clinton 'because Reagan was a conservative and he didn't want to do as much. And Clinton wants to do a lot.'
Clinton expressed his philosophy in last week's State of the Union free dating. Paraphrasing Theodore Roosevelt, he said, 'Tonight let us take our long look ahead, and set great goals for our nation.'
Whether Congress will enact those goals, especially in an election free dating in which both parties are battling furiously for control of the White free dating and the free dating of Representatives, is debatable. Top congressional aides have already dismissed Clinton's call for a 25- cents-per-pack increase in the cigarette excise tax, which the president will propose as a means of balancing his budget on Monday.
'As president of the United States, he cannot change behavior next month, let alone five years into the future,' said Thurber, an expert on Congress and the presidency. Clinton may succeed, he said, on issues that many legislators also want, such as increasing the minimum wage and adopting a 'patients' bill of rights.'
But what of Clinton's goal, enunciated Jan. 13, of 'tripling U.S. use of bio-based products and bio-energy by 2010'?
'Good luck,' Thurber said.
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