Word: bushing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...from 33% to 19.6% for 2 1/2 years) illustrates the "babble of voices" that plagues Democratic efforts to unite on an issue. Critics say Foley and Rostenkowski threw in the towel too early; Mitchell girded his loins too late; and Bentsen, who delivered the party's response to Bush's economic message last winter, favors a lower rate...
When Delaware Senator Joe Biden delivered the Democratic response to Bush's "War on Drugs" speech, only one network carried it live. What stuck in the public's mind -- and Ron Brown's craw -- was the image of New York Congressman Charles Rangel facing the cameras after a White House conference and urging a tax hike to wage the war. Moaned Brown: "You can hear America sigh, 'The tax-and-spend Democrats...
...Wright and whip Tony Coelho, and now the sex scandal involving Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank. Nor is the climate right for combat, with the economy perking along and the President enjoying an extended honeymoon. Grouses former party chairman Bob Strauss: "This is not the time to take on George Bush head...
Expectably, the White House is delighted with Democratic frustrations. Political operatives believe Bush has stolen the opposition's best issues: the environment, education, child care, the minimum wage (where Bush's veto of a Democratic bill will force a compromise to the President's liking). "We have co-opted them in areas that have traditionally been their strength. They don't know what to do," gloats a senior Administration official...
...have a point. With the President barely settled into the White House, a few Democrats are already conceding his re-election in 1992 and training their sights on 1996, when Bush will be gone and the G.O.P. nominee could be Vice President Dan Quayle. The Democrats should be so lucky...