Word: centrist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President's rightward move is tempered, however. His advisers have convinced him that he can win points by presenting himself as a centrist conciliator on welfare. In his weekend radio address, he denounced the Gingrich idea of orphanages for poor children -- "governments don't raise children," he said, "parents do" -- but stressed again his plan for a time limit on benefits. Earlier in the week he met at the White House with Governors from both parties to talk about welfare reform, then announced plans for a bipartisan meeting of Governors and mayors next month to help refine a plan. That...
Clinton's reincarnation as a centrist is fully under way. The election- induced rush to the middle began three weeks ago, when Clinton announced he would contemplate a law allowing for a moment of silence in schools. The next week he boosted Pentagon spending by $25 billion. Last week top EPA officials met with Governors to ease automobile-emissions testing requirements. And the Agriculture Department, a virtual Harvestore of unnecessary spending, announced that it would close 1,274 field offices around the U.S. Though Clinton complained privately last week that he had already made dramatic cuts in government, some...
...simplistic catarsis of xenophobic, Afro-centrist discourse is just plain useless...
...announce a middle class tax cut in a televised speech scheduled for 9 pm ET Thursday, White House aides said today. Clinton has been expected to hit the airwaves since last week -- when the White House promised an address to follow up on his fence-mending speech to the centrist Democratic Leadership Council -- and Sunday, Clinton said he would propose the tax cut if he could find a way to pay for it. How? TIME White House correspondent James Carney says the leading solution's hidden in plain sight: preliminary Administration proposals revealed last week to scrap the Department...
President Clinton announced today that he'll convene a bipartisan meeting of governors and mayors in January in an effort to fix "our country's broken welfare system." In a clear effort to beat GOP welfare-bashers to the high ground as part of his centrist post-election swing, Clinton -- in a statement -- described the current welfare system as a "bad deal for the taxpayers who pay the bills and for the families who are trapped on it." Newly-empowered GOP leaders, meanwhile, have their own designs on the issue: House Republicans want to abolish more than 100 social programs...