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Gore countered that in any other year his fund-raising performance would have set records.
Pessimists countered that 1) setting a schedule wasn't much of an achievement, and 2) both sides signaled little willingness to compromise.
INS supporters countered that 1) the ruling was based solely on legal concerns ; and 2) the only blackmail was Cuban-Americans' threats of political retribution against the Clinton administration.
George W. Bush countered that the killings were "a wave of evil" that legislation could not stop.