Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lawyer backlash may transcend all that. "I am a lifelong Democrat," says Jill Banks-Barad, a Los Angeles consultant, "but I feel myself leaning in favor of the initiatives because litigation has got out of control in this state...
...married Kit when Newt was three and adopted him as his son. He spent the next 16 years trying to tame him; Newt spent those years trying to get his father's attention. Bob was a Democrat; Newt, from childhood, a Republican. Bob was a disciplinarian; Newt, a rebel. Once when Bob was stationed in Orleans, France, he was awakened at 5 a.m. by some MPs, who had caught young Newt hitchhiking. Newt's first love, a girl named Jeannette, had just broken up with him, and he wanted to go plead with her to take him back. Furious, Gingrich...
DESPITE BEING A DEMOCRAT AND NOT NECessarily imagining that I would have liked him at the start, I thought his state-of-the-Speaker address last January was remarkable. He talked about cities, racial problems, the need for opportunity. But since that time, he has shown little of that large-heartedness. He seems like such a contradiction, because he obviously has big ideas. Yet he has fallen prey many times to petty mishaps that seem to emanate from part of his personality. You cannot brush off such incidents as just tiny mistakes...
Obviously, partisans are glad Gingrich has frittered away his momentum, because it helps the Democratic Party. So the part of me that's a Democrat is delighted. But the part of me that is a political observer, that saw an interesting figure who might have really put his stamp on the country and had at least made an attempt to come out with some answers for the country, is disappointed. He somehow destroyed that opportunity little by little by whatever it is in him that's not as confident as it seems to be on the surface...
...balanced, but it fell one vote short in the Senate, where Republican Mark Hatfield of Oregon defected, insisting it was a gimmick. At the moment, the House and Senate are crafting a compromise on another kind of budget-cutting measure, the presidential line-item veto. But with a Democrat in the White House, Republicans are in no rush to hand Clinton a scalpel...