Word: beltways
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...STATE/BLUE STATE Four years ago, it was the coinage of TV newscasters and Beltway insiders. Now even Kansas housewives know the ubiquitous symbol of our national divide...
...orgy of recriminations over where the party went astray. A strikingly amorphous candidate, Kerry provides more than the usual fodder for Dems' eternal squabble over what they should stand for: moderates can claim Kerry was too liberal to woo swing voters; lefties will say he was too inside-the-Beltway to energize the angry, disillusioned masses; and the increasingly unbalanced Ralph Nader will declare him another loathsome Republicrat slave to corporate America...
BOSTON—They came by the thousands from across the country, filing into the FleetCenter for three straight days and nights to participate in the formal nomination of a presidential candidate, hear the best rhetoric an opposition party had to offer or gawk at Beltway celebs. Often, it seemed just being in the corridors abutting the floor of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) was enough. Certainly, it was enough to spur a healthy trade in the many-colored stiff paper passes which granted varying levels of convention access to their bearers...
When Glickman replaces Valenti in September, he said he plans to use Beltway connections and know-how accumulated over a life of public service to “push a bipartisan legislative agenda through...
...Democrats. The greatest tribute to a president's political impact is the adoption of his most popular ideas by his opponents - and when President Clinton spoke of ending the era of "big government" and reforming welfare, he knew full well that those ideas were brought into the Beltway by President Reagan...