Word: bushed
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...Starr made the unusual decision to step down from lifetime appointment to the court to become George Bush's solicitor general, the lawyer who argues Administration positions before the Supreme Court. As solicitor general, he was considered by liberals to be an improvement over Charles Fried, who had been accused by them of politicizing the job to pursue the Reagan agenda on such issues as abortion, the rights of the accused and affirmative action. All the same, when a seat opened up on the Supreme Court in 1990, Starr was too well known as an opponent of abortion rights...
...vigil outside Tucker's cell Tuesday night did what it could do. Pat Robertson did what he could do, airing an interview with Tucker on "700 Club" Tuesday in which the born-again Christian said that God, not the legal system, was deciding her fate. Texas Governor George W. Bush declined to do all he could do, which was offer a hopeless 30-day stay of execution after the Supreme Court twice turned down her appeal. "God bless Karla Faye Tucker," Bush said at a press conference announcing his decision to abide by the finding of the courts...
About a year later, former FBI man Gary Aldrich published his incendiary tale of shenanigans inside Clinton's White House. It was delicious reading for Tripp, who became angry when the White House tried to discredit Aldrich, whom she knew from the Bush years. It gave Tripp the idea for her own kiss-and-tell. Behind Closed Doors, it was to be called, and it was to cause an earthquake. She chose as her literary agent Lucianne Goldberg, known in the '90s for controversial clients like Mark Fuhrman (of O.J. Simpson fame) and in the '70s for being a G.O.P...
Tripp already knew Moody from their Bush days (he involved himself in Vice President Dan Quayle's deregulation crusade). It was Moody who formally set up Tripp's initial meeting with Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr's people on Jan. 12. Just a day later, she had a body recorder strapped to her thigh as she sipped coffee with Lewinsky at the Ritz-Carlton in Pentagon City...
AUSTIN: Only one man can delay Karla Faye Tucker's deadly date with the needle: Texas Governor George W. Bush. But he's running out of time. With hours left before the born-again killer's 7pm EST lethal injection, the Supreme Court turned down her appeal against the Texan clemency system. Will Bush, a contender for the GOP presidential nomination, step in at the last minute? Unlikely: All he has to offer is a 30-day stay of execution, an option his administration has already recommended against. No political gain is seen in merely prolonging her suffering...