This has been excerpted from the December 31, 1993 issue of a Madison,
Wisconsin entertainment weekly _Isthmus_.  In the 1993 Cheap Shot Awards, the
_Isthmus's_ "annual onslaught of low blows", is an award I found sort of
interesting.

(following the "Most Horrific Hairdo award"):

Most Pathetic Politician:  Herb Kohl.  Wisconsin's senior senator this
year tried to strike all the right poses in anticipation of next year's
reelection campaign.  Kohl, who in 1988 applied $6.1 million of his own money
toward the purchase of a U. S. Senate seat, this June backed a $25,000 limit
on candidate self-contributions.  In August he forced Clinton to limit his
tax hike on gasoline, thus undermining deficit reduction and conservation. 
In September he helped pass an amendment delcaring that "homosexuality is
incompatible with military service" and permitting the military to reinstate
its policy of asking recruits about their sexual orientation - a curious
stance for a 58-year-old never-married man who doubtless considers his own
sexual orientation nobody's beeswax.  Apparently Kohl thinks gross hypocrisy
is a winning strategy.  Let's hope not.