Word: beltway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...SEEING IT: Only when Dole was desperately behind in 1988 did he reluctantly trot out his war wounds. Now he's practically flaunting them. The ad is meant to show Dole as something other than a Beltway big shot, to humanize the chilly candidate and contrast him with his putative opponent, a fellow who agonized about getting out of the draft. The ad harps on Dole's character largely because character is Dole's only message, and his staff hopes to compare his with that of the current occupant of the White House...
THEY STREAMED INTO THE RESORT HOtel lobby Friday night, the best and the brightest of the new revolution, fatigued and untanned, still in suits rumpled from the Beltway fray. Here at the entrance to Miami's Doral Golf Resort and Spa was David Horowitz, leftist turned conservative author. Behind him strode movement martyr Judge Robert Bork, so foully denied a Supreme Court seat. And here was Richard Viguerie, political direct-mail pioneer and prodigal son. For the preceding few years on New Year's, Viguerie had partied with the enemy, surrounded by moderates and liberals in Hilton Head, South Carolina...
LAST WEEK I MOVED FROM WASHINGTON, D.C., TO Washington State, and now I have this to say: We folks out here in the real America are sick and tired of you inside-the-Beltway types pushing us around. My message to people in the so-called nation's capital is, Get off our backs! Although I lived and worked for two decades in the District of Columbia and its immediate environs, it took only a few moments of residency elsewhere to make me realize that our capital city is a blight and a leech on the rest of the country...
...fact, lower) and about wasteful government spending of my hard-earned dollars (though, in fact, what with federally subsidized public works, utilities and national parks, I'm getting far more for my federal tax dollars living in the West than I did back East). Yes, as an outside-the-Beltway American, I'm a certified martyr now. It feels swell...
Although House Majority Leader Dick Armey has said that getting public support for the Bosnia mission would be "like pulling teeth through the back of your head," opposition within the Beltway may be softening. On Capitol Hill Wednesday, even Strom Thurmond, the Republican chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, hedged his criticism: "I support the North Atlantic alliance and believe that the United States should remain engaged in and show leadership in NATO." Elsewhere, the American Jewish Congress today joined an increasing number of voices supporting the U.S. troop deployment. "It looks increasingly likely that Clinton will get congressional...