Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bork was too rigid in his conservative ideology. During the judge's testimony, they wondered aloud if he was, instead, too changeable. "What troubles me is the very significant and profound shifts," said Pennsylvania Republican Arlen Specter, who has remained undecided. "Where's the predictability in Judge Bork?" Vermont Democrat Patrick Leahy fired a more serious charge at the witness. Accusing Bork of mendaciously softening his ( views to ensure Senate approval, Leahy called the judge's changes of opinion a case of "confirmation conversion...
...sidestepped attempts to pin him down on what sort of discrimination might be "reasonable." Did the word cover mandatory disease testing or higher insurance rates for certain groups, based on statistical evidence? Bork cited separate toilet facilities as one example where sex discrimination was appropriate, prompting Arizona Democrat Dennis DeConcini, an undecided member, to retort, "Isn't that a bogus argument? We're not talking about unisex toilets here. We're talking about fundamental rights that women for too, too long have not been provided...
...only interest the Democrats are not meeting is the personal ambition of Vrdolyak. The former leader of the Cook County Democratic machine could not win the party's endorsement for mayor--and he couldn't garner enough votes as a third party candidate to unseat incumbent Democrat Harold Washington...
...situation exists in Chicago. A Black man clearly is at the head of the Democratic Party in Chicago. The question is whether the old machine style of powersharing between different ethnic voting blocks will work to keep the city at political peace or whether age-old racial divisions will prove too strong. Will racial prejudice in ethnic neighborhoods--spurred on by the baiting rhetoric of people like Vrdolyak who has begun to reach for the Republicans in neighborhoods he used to wardheel as a Democrat--make a white-Black sharing of power impossible as long as the Blacks are dominant...
...undoing. When Secretary of State George Shultz testified on South Africa last summer, Biden's angry attack on Shultz left some viewers with an intemperate image of the Senator. As Biden concedes, "Exposure is good only if you do well, only if you appear knowledgeable and fair." Both Democrat DeConcini and Republican Hatch have warned somewhat hyperbolically that if Bork's opponents on the committee attack the judge too aggressively, it could spoil the Democrats' chances of regaining the White House...