Word: bolting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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That's a tricky bargain. A big increase risks losing the support of some of the bill's strongest supporters, including Daschle, whose defection would give plenty of other Democrats the cover they need to bolt. (It was so much easier for Democrats to oppose soft money before they became as good as Republicans at raising it.) Big increases in the hard-money limits, where Republicans still have an advantage, would make any claims of reform a sham. Says Senator Paul Wellstone: "It puts even more big money into politics...
...depends on your personal situation. Obviously John Breaux thought he could explain his 180-degree turn on this issue (he was the first Democrat to publicly bolt a few weeks ago) to the folks back home. For people like Murray and Harkin, who both face tough reelection fights, it's a little more difficult - with Harkin in particular, if he bolts, Republicans are swearing that they'll make his life miserable...
...quick review: In 1964, the Warren Commission concluded that only three shots were fired - all from behind the President, all from the Texas School Book Depository, all from the bolt-action rifle of Lee Harvey Oswald. End of story. (Beginning of conspiracy-theory industry.) In 1979, an investigation conducted by Congress's House Assassinations Committee disagreed - a fourth shot, which missed, had been fired from behind a white picket fence on that grassy knoll. In 1982, however, a special panel of the National Academy of Sciences insisted the fourth shot was random background noise, probably static...
...That's a tricky bargain. A big increase risks losing the support of some of the bill's strongest supporters, including Daschle, whose defection would give plenty of other Democrats the cover they need to bolt. (It was so much easier for Democrats to oppose soft money before they became as good as Republicans at raising it.) Big increases in the hard-money limits, where Republicans still have an advantage, would make any claims of reform a sham. Says Senator Paul Wellstone: "It puts even more big money into politics...
...broken bolt. Still no word from the crew. I'm getting ticked. They should be talking to me. My head is pounding. I'm fingering my necklace. My legs ache...