This Guy's Beginning to Annoy Me

By DAVID ELLIS

Senate majority leader GEORGE MITCHELL is bucking to replace Dick Gephardt as GEORGE BUSH's Least Favorite Democrat. Mitchell's latest attack on the Administration's renewal of trade privileges for China as "immoral" and his strong support of the civil rights bill are part of his pitch for a White House run in 1996. "He takes a position the minute I finish speaking," gripes the President.

With reporting by Sidney Urquhart