Word: clintone
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President Bill Clinton spent his first 100 days bouncing between a series of blunders: unsuccessful Attorney General nominations, Hillary Clinton's failed health-care reform, "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and the botched Branch Davidian raid in Waco, Texas. President George W. Bush presented a $1.96 trillion budget plan to Congress, created an Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives and halted federal funding for international organizations that offered family-planning services...
...never a reliable Republican vote and isn't likely to be much more dependable for Democrats. He played a pivotal role in defeating the Supreme Court nomination of conservative icon Robert Bork in 1987 and famously invoked Scottish law to vote "not proved," therefore not guilty, in Bill Clinton's impeachment trial. Yet Democrats should not forget that he voted for George W. Bush's tax cuts and Supreme Court nominees and the Iraq invasion...
...measure that divided Democrats. The previous year, he followed his party in supporting a bill to halt restrictions on federal spending on embryonic stem cell research. He also showed an independent streak: Even as much of Alabama's Democratic establishment, including its black caucus, backed then-Sen. Hillary Clinton in the state's Democratic presidential primary, Davis endorsed Obama. (Obama won.) In the days after Obama's victory last November, there was talk that Davis would be the President-elect's attorney general nominee. But Davis was already weighing other options. One was running for the U.S. Senate seat long...
...reason, after all, why the Democrats, upon winning back both chambers of Congress in 2006, didn't indulge in impeachment trials (though House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers would have liked nothing better): everyone remembers the price the GOP paid for its zealous pursuit of President Bill Clinton in the 1990's. And if Dems are going to overreach, they'd rather it be in the service of trying to achieve a policy goal like universal healthcare or energy reform. Still, the pressure is mounting from the left wing of the Democratic Party and grassroots organizations to at least investigate...
...That a government expresses an opinion without seeing the indictment is laughable.' ALI JAMSHIDI, spokesman for Iran's judiciary, after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for the release of Roxana Saberi, an Iranian-American journalist on trial for spying...