Word: backlashers
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Kaifu praised Bush's willingness to consider tax revenue increases at the risk of a strong political backlash. Bush commended Kaifu for "his strong and courageous political leadership...
...think so. But a layer of butter and kiwi and shrimp has covered our moral strength. It will reappear when we remove that layer. The term idealism was born here -- it was the contribution of German philosophers, and it was abused terribly in this century. There was a backlash, and now we have to achieve a sort of balance...
...disaffection of white Southerners with the Democratic Party, which helped create "the emerging Republican majority" that has dominated American politics for the past 20 years. Now he has a major new book that could portend good news for the ailing Democrats: the 1990s, he argues, will bring a populist backlash against the greedfest of the 1980s...
...available for abortion, bishops may decide that, for the common good, such Catholics must be warned that they are at risk of excommunication." Though the Cardinal emphasized that he was not writing on behalf of the U.S. episcopate, his words will inevitably have nationwide impact, and could fuel a backlash against church incursions into politics...
...vans. But Stan Kocos, chairman of Disabled Advocates of Fond du Lac, admits that his group was torn between support for the new law and the Handi-Van. Says Kocos: "We want lifts on buses, and we want the alternative service. But we'd hate to see a taxpayer backlash...