For the republicans, it was a rare instance of trumping the master. Bill Clinton, a wizard of political timing, has been one-upping GOP leaders for years by seizing their issues just as they ripened into public view, whether it was balancing the budget, welfare reform or the big-government-is-bad Zeitgeist of the '90s. Not this time. When it came to reforming the much-criticized Internal Revenue Service, the president's internal clock appears to have been badly off.
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