1.   He warned that conservatives were trying to claw back power.

2.   And conservatives are trying to step up the pressure now for a robust package.

3.   And conservatives are still trying to give women the short end of the stick and claim gender discrimination has nothing to do with it.

4.   But conservatives are trying to have it both ways if they implicitly criticize Clinton for staying in her marriage while touting the institution of marriage at the same time.

5.   House conservatives may try to add business tax cuts to the measure, which would complicate its final passage.

6.   If Gingrich asks that the negotiations be reopened, angry conservatives could try to scale back these spending increases.

7.   If social conservatives actually tried to choose candidates by the state of their souls, Jimmy Carter, that born-again family man, would have had two terms.

8.   Initially, congressional conservatives tried to kill the AmeriCorps program.

9.   Moderates shy from his confrontational tactics, while House conservatives tried to oust him last year as too accommodationist.

10.   No matter how much conservatives try to blame racial wage disparity on single-parent homes and educational gaps, there remains an unavoidable reality.