Word: democratizer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Elizabeth is a Democrat who became a Republican, Hillary a Republican turned Democrat. But it is worth noting that amid all the rhetoric on both sides about the end of Big Government, these two women share a belief in its benevolent potential. Elizabeth has spent 28 years in government, largely acting on behalf of consumers, while Hillary spent 1993 trying to expand government and guarantee all Americans access to health care. If they ever sat down together, not to arm wrestle or debate but to share thoughts and trade stories, these two Methodist women might find themselves communing with...
...people to like her but not let them get too close. Her persona artfully conceals what she prefers to be hidden, namely that she is an opportunistic political infighter who has skillfully maneuvered for every job she's ever had. She arrived in the capital as a Great Society Democrat, became an independent during the Nixon years and converted to the Republican Party when she married Bob Dole. (Bedfellows make strange politics.) Her ideological transformations were perfectly in synch with each of her moves up the Washington hierarchy...
Last week the California supreme court--a conservative panel with six Republicans and one Democrat--called time out. The case before them was that of Jose Romero, a San Diego drug abuser whom superior court judge William Mudd sentenced to six years for possession of 13 g of cocaine. Romero had 24 previous convictions, but they had all been for nonviolent crimes, such as burglary and drug possession. Prosecutors appealed the decision, saying the judge was required by law to sentence Romero to 25 years to life. Mudd refused, arguing that the three-strikes law "basically castrates a judge...
...dignity of a king and the power of a prime minister in one elective office--when they made the president a national leader in the mystical as well as the practical sense. With that in mind, Bill Clinton was elected to the presidency in 1992 as a "New Democrat," stressing responsibility as well as rights. What set him apart form Democrats such as Michael Dukakis, Walter Mondale and Jimmy Carter had less to do with his stand on particular issues than with his ability, at least at moments, to transcend the terms of the conventional politics. Dukakis learned what happens...
Lott actually began his career as a conservative Democrat, serving as a top aide to Representative William Colmer, a segregationist, before switching to the G.O.P. to run for Colmer's seat when the boss retired in 1972. Cashing in on his college contacts from Ole Miss, where he was head cheerleader, Lott won with 55% of the vote and never looked back. In 1988 he became only the second G.O.P. Senator from his state since Reconstruction and soon leapfrogged over far more senior Republicans onto the top rungs of the leadership ladder. After the Republican sweep of 1994, he even...