Word: centrist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...well equipped for crime fighting. The Democrats' weapons of choice are reason and opportunity; they want to understand crime as much as to fight it, to offer the criminal a chance at a better life so he will see the error of his ways. In his years with the centrist Democratic Leadership Council, Clinton tried to challenge party orthodoxy by getting beyond the debate over the reasons for crime and talking more about the responses to it. He has long advocated some of the ideas that surfaced last week, like spending $100 million to establish a "police corps" that would...
AFTER MONTHS OF FRETTING THAT BILL CLINTON ISN'T A NEW DEMOCRAT after all, that he's an unreconstructed liberal masquerading as a centrist, many pundits have changed their mind. Clinton, they now argue, is little different from George Bush. Recalling a litany of unfulfilled campaign pledges and a budget heavy on deficit reduction, the New York Times complains that Clinton "promised voters more than a rehash." That's right, and only the President's fabulists would deny that the rhetoric of 1992 rings a bit hollow in 1993. But overall, the rap is bum. America isn't close...
After all, Thomas McLarty, President Clinton's centrist Chief of Staff, was the force behind her nomination. But Clinton should have realized that only a strong, if mild-mannered, liberal could tip the balance in the highly conservative high court...
...first indication of Clinton centrist shift was his easing of the order to lift the ban on gays in the military. Then there was the shuffling of George Stephanopoulos--the young, liberal visionary of the Clinton team--away from the position of communications director. Stephanopoulos was replaced by David Gergen, a far more moderate Reagan-era spokesperson who makes a profession of becoming a blank slate every...
...like a bleeding heart, but it was enough to raise alarms at the White House, which plans to ask Congress for 100,000 new cops. Reno's priorities, they complain, are too liberal and social-service oriented -- particularly at a time when the President is trying to restore his centrist reputation. Her assault on mandatory-sentencing laws horrified White House aides, who may agree that the laws don't work very well but are more concerned about what message they send. "There is some question about how ideologically in synch she is with the Clinton Administration," says one % official, though...