Word: clintonians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...allow. A couple of days after the GOP launched a $10 million campaign of negative commercials packed with oblique references to the Lewinsky affair -? and a mere four days before the midterm elections -? the Democratic National Committee has slapped together a couple of last-minute rebuttals. And in true Clintonian tradition, the ads are "positive-negative" -? that is, attacking opponents while effortlessly appearing to be still talking about the issues. "Republicans -? so intent on attacking the President they?ve forgotten about us," says one. "I?m sick of hearing them debate everything except what will really make a difference...
...door meeting about expanding the hearings to include Clinton's campaign-finance abuses, the Administration's transfer of satellite technology to China, and the many other scandals known as Whitewater. It sure looked as though Newt was in charge and ready to launch an open-ended inquiry into all Clintonian abuse-of-power issues that would amount, as one Clinton aide put it, to "the scandal analog of the 1995 shutdown." For now, Democrats were happy just to label Newt the man pulling Hyde's strings. "The leadership calls the shots," said Marty Meehan, a Massachusetts Democrat on the Judiciary...
...Clintonian Permissivists chanted, "It's nobody's business! It's nobody's business!" The Moralists spluttered back, "Would you want your daughter...!? That creep...!" And the Permissivists chorused in return, "They all did it! Look at Roosevelt! Kennedy, for God's sake! Johnson!" and so on, pointlessly, grimly, until the dinner was more or less ruined. By the time we arrived at dessert, all present realized that an ugly weather system had moved in, something like the greenish air before a tornado...
...annals of Clintonian scandal, March 1998 may be remembered as a month of sideshows: the rise and fall of Kathleen Willey; a putative White House plot to smear Ken Starr's deputies; a wave of supposed Clinton paramours rising from the files of the Paula Jones case; a campaign-plane flight attendant named Cristy Zercher who says she was groped by Clinton but came so late to the party that her tabloid story fetched only about $50,000. But now, 11 weeks after the independent counsel began his search for misbehavior and cover-up, the scandal is finally circling back...
...stalling and refusing to explain his relationship with Monica Lewinsky seem to have shorted out his emotional connection to America. And now comes Travolta in Primary Colors, the Mike Nichols movie based on Joe Klein's novel about the 1992 campaign, with a portrayal so deeply and exuberantly Clintonian that it reminds you of everything you've ever loved and hated about the man. Blurring fact and fiction is old hat by now, but the hat has never fit quite so snugly. Imagine Alan J. Pakula's All the President's Men hitting theaters with Nixon still in office...