Banana Peels

Moments from last week Bush, Clinton and Quayle would like to forget :

BOY TOYS

Quayle tweaked Clinton for referring in a speech to Patriot missiles going "down chimneys" during the Gulf War. Ha, said Quayle: "Bill Clinton knows less about national security than I do about spelling!" The weapons, said Quayle, were cruise missiles. Join the club, Dan. They were smart bombs.

NEVER SAY NEVER

Someone better stop that man. No sooner did President Bush promise last week that he would never raise taxes again -- "ever, ever" -- than out popped Marlin Fitzwater to explain that this did not mean that the President would never raise taxes again. "It wasn't a pledge," insisted Fitzwater. Oh.