A lifelong Democrat and longtime friend of Clinton, Lamm also slammed the president for " pandering to special interests " on legal reform and " demagoguing " on Medicare, which Lamm contends needs a drastic overhaul to prevent intergenerational conflict early in the next century.
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"It's like any other civil rights progress we've had in this country, " said Representative James P . McGovern, a Worcester Democrat . " Maybe it's unrealistic to expect things to change overnight, but . . . I think the president and Karl Rove and all those others who are demagoguing this issue are on the wrong side of history ."
