Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...actually doing what he said he would do if given the chance. Gingrich is suffering not only for what he has done, but also for how he did it. Without so much as a decent burial, he has killed the old order of American politics. No U.S. President, Democrat or Republican, is likely to propose spending more than the government earns, or expanding what it tries to do, for at least a generation...
...Federal Government's financial exposure to rising Medicaid costs. And the G.O.P. is not proposing actual cuts, but reductions in the rate of Medicaid's growth. Still, given the outlook for affected Americans, the Medicaid proposal has drawn harsh criticism from many, like Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber, a Democrat and a physician, who calls the withdrawal of guaranteed health coverage a "cynical political move" meant to balance the budget on the backs of people who don't vote Republican. The A.M.A., which earlier endorsed the G.O.P.'s Medicare reforms, went public last week with concerns that the Medicaid safety...
Zyuganov is more flexible about following the old party line than most of his followers, but even if their leader may sometimes sound like a Social Democrat, Russia's half a million communists today represent the most hard-line core of the party that once had 18 million members. If voters need any reminding of communism's horrors, the "Forward, Russia!" party of economist Boris Fyodorov has put up a huge poster in Moscow reading: 50 MILLION VICTIMS OF CIVIL WAR, COLLECTIVIZATION AND REPRESSION WOULD NOT VOTE FOR ZYUGANOV. The trouble for Yeltsin and Russia's beleaguered reformers is that...
...history repeats itself, the flag-amendment issue will have little resonance in the minds of voters come November. After the amendment's last run through Congress in May 1990, only five months before the election, Democrats gained seats in both houses, and not one Democrat lost a Senate seat While the electorate has come down repeatedly and overwhelmingly on the wrong side of the issue, at least it has had the sense not to vote for candidates on the basis of their support for the flag-burning amendment alone...
...Hatfield, a moderate pillar of the Senate for 30 years, announced he will retire next year, the 11th Senator to do so. Reports circulated at week's end that Wyoming Republican Alan Simpson, one of the Senate's crustier members, may soon become the 12th. In the House, Colorado Democrat Pat Schroeder, the most senior woman in the chamber and one of its most influential feminists, said she would also step down, as did Kansas Republican Jan Meyers, the only woman to chair a full House committee. For his part, Speaker Newt Gingrich announced that he would not seek...