Word: democratizer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...meantime, there were serious problems to fix. The fall campaign season could hardly have looked more dire for the Democrats. In mid-September, two dozen Democratic Congresswomen came to the Yellow Oval Room and laid out their desperation to Hillary over coffee and Danish. Their problem was what they called, out of politeness, "the clutter." Clinton himself was useless to them as a campaigner; he was a prisoner of the briefing room and the fund raisers. She was the one politician in the country who would not be interrupted with questions about the scandal. In the miraculous month of October...
...Republican, not even Ken Starr, cut through the President's mortar as efficiently as David Schippers, a Democrat hired by Hyde as majority counsel. In an angry, sarcastic and merciless presentation delivered in a penetrating Chicago twang, Schippers drilled holes in Clinton's words, deeds and character, arguing that the President had lied repeatedly under oath, obstructed justice by helping Lewinsky get a job and encouraged everyone around him to do the same. "He lied to the people, he lied to his Cabinet, he lied to his top aides, and now he's lied under oath to the Congress...
Writer David Brock--the journalist who discovered Paula Jones--portrayed Huffington in Esquire as a tragic, muddled figure who is no longer even sure whether he's a Democrat or a Republican. But Huffington, 51, who wasn't talking to the press last week, told friends that Brock got it wrong. First of all, Huffington says, he thinks of himself not as gay but as probably bisexual: in other words, his marriage to the former Arianna Stassinopoulos wasn't a total sham. He insists that he was never unfaithful to her, with men or women. And he takes his relatively...
Senator Carl Levin of Michigan, who in January will become the ranking Democrat on the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, called for hearings on the GAO's findings. "Are major U.S. banks, wittingly or unwittingly, helping criminals move funds to safe harbors around the world?" Levin asked. "If the answer to that question is yes, then the Congress had better close down the loopholes that allow it." Already this week federal regulators will issue new rules requiring banks to confirm the identities of their customers and the sources of large fund transfers...
...intend...to bring a new slogan to the Democratic Party of compassionate conservatism." --Representative James Jones, Democrat...