Word: clintonian
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...small irony that George W. Bush has liberated both the Iraqis and the Democrats. His ridiculous federal budget has removed a significant, Clintonian restraint on the party: it no longer has to be fiscally responsible. Candidates can promise the moon. Dick Gephardt can say his universal health coverage plan will "only" cost $100 billion a year. Kerry can point out that the Administration is planning new roads, schools, hospitals and schoolbooks in Iraq. "And it is time that they do the same thing here ..." But it is easier for Republicans, who are inaccurately assumed to be adults, to be fiscally...
...small irony that George W. Bush has liberated both the Iraqis and the Democrats. His ridiculous federal budget has removed a significant, Clintonian restraint on the party: it no longer has to be fiscally responsible. Candidates can promise the moon. Dick Gephardt can say his universal health coverage plan will "only" cost $100 billion a year. Kerry can point out that the Administration is planning new roads, schools, hospitals and schoolbooks in Iraq. "And it is time that they do the same thing here ..." But it is easier for Republicans, who are inaccurately assumed to be adults, to be fiscally...
...rewarding blackmail and those who say that isolating Kim will just make it harder to stop him. Everyone from Dick Cheney to Colin Powell was tiptoeing around their verbs--the U.S. is willing to talk but not negotiate--leading critics like Senator John McCain to call the policy positively Clintonian in its evasiveness. But the signals were mixed from North Korea as well. There was hard-line talk in public about a "holy war" with the U.S., even as North Korean diplomats were meeting privately in New Mexico with Governor Bill Richardson, formerly President Bill Clinton's U.N. ambassador...
...Dick Gephardt was never close to Clinton politically, but has paid him a visit. Lately some very Clintonian-sounding themes--"opportunity, responsibility, community"--have been creeping into Gephardt's speeches...
...Dick Gephardt was never close to Clinton politically, but has paid him a visit. Lately some very Clintonian-sounding themes-"opportunity, responsibility, community"-have been creeping into Gephardt's speeches...