Word: beltways
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...call yourself a reporter!" huffed the Kingfish. "He's the host of Imus in the Morning, a radio show that mixes interviews of big-time politicians and media stars like Tim Russert and Jeff Greenfield with sophomoric satire and juvenile racial humor. The inside-the-Beltway crowd worships and fears...
These developments have some Beltway types doing a double take. Can Bush, only recently anointed as the golden boy of the religious right, afford to cozy up to this wing of his party? The answer, so far, is a qualified yes. In fact, some polls now show Bush with as much as a 10-point lead over Vice President Al Gore, thanks in large part to the Texas governor's skillful disengagement from the orbit of Pat Robertson and the Christian Coalition, forces he was pressed into befriending by the insurgency of primary opponent John McCain. But whether he could...
...style, a "very fortunate man" before announcing the decision he'd leaked hours before: "This is not the right time for me to run for office." None of that matters anymore to the Republican kingmakers who'd been counting on him to beat Hillary all the way back to Beltway. They're left standing in the ring without a fighter, and they've got until the May 30 state GOP convention to turn Long Island's Rep. Rick Lazio into a contender...
...manufacturers, the Florida verdict seems to shore up a trend in which the public is turning to the courts and local governments - rather than to federal politicians - to seek redress against powerful special interests. It also explains why the Washington lobbyists would want to spread their gospel beyond the Beltway. "The judge will always instruct the jury that they're only to base their judgment on the facts of this case and not accept any outside influence," says TIME legal analyst Alain Sanders. "But jurors are people, and it would be foolish to assume they're not influenced...
...third party to be attractive to people, a person would do better if he an outside of the beltway figure," Hawkins says. "People don't associate [Buchanan] with anything but politics...