11.   But if the surgeon general wants to set his own agenda, he becomes a political liability.

12.   But Pena Gomez also has political liabilities.

13.   But that area has become a political liability for Pastrana.

14.   But to many Democrats seeking election or reelection to Congress, Clinton now is a political liability.

15.   Dole also sheds the political liabilities of a marriage of necessity with House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

16.   Even if Condit is a political liability, House Democrats are wary of demanding an immediate resignation.

17.   For Lincoln, Harding, Johnson and Bush, the sex issue was speedily passed off as evil gossip and idle talk, never becoming a political liability.

18.   For President Carlos Saul Menem, who is facing re-election in May, the high unemployment rate is seen as a political liability.

19.   For the moment, at least, the president may have offset the war as a political liability.

20.   He was often aware of the political liability such positions carried with his conservative constituents, he said.