Word: democratizer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last minute, House Democratic leader Richard Gephardt looked ready to walk away from the deal. Two weeks ago, Clinton had summoned top House Democrats to the White House to argue that the agreement would remake the Democratic Party's image. The President insisted that it was only because he had embraced a balanced budget that he was re-elected last year, while Democrats failed to recapture Congress. By actually passing a balanced budget, Clinton claimed, he would "make it safe to be a Democrat again." Gephardt sat next to him, saying nothing...
With his crusade to eliminate what he calls state government "the old-fashioned way," Malone rocked a boat that many Bay State pols--Republican and Democrat alike--were quite happy to be sitting...
Political success is often accidental (Blair took command after his predecessor died of a heart attack), but it also comes from calculation. Just as Bill Clinton reinvented himself as a New Democrat to capture the White House in 1992, and then as a reborn centrist to win a second term last year, Blair has retooled Labour so that it sometimes seems like nothing but a more caring version of Toryism. Gone are the old socialist slogans. Gone is the pledge to redistribute income and nationalize industries. Blair calls his party "new Labour." His opponent, Conservative Prime Minister John Major, describes...
...acceptable face of Thatcherism to reach No. 10. Yet cloning has its limits, and Blair knows them well. He understands what happens when the dissonance between campaigning and governing becomes too great. Asked about the Republicans' 1994 midterm sweep, Blair suggested Clinton lacked the will to pursue the New Democrat policies on which he ran. "You don't run on one basis and govern on another," he said...
...will browbeat his colleagues is unknown. And even if he does, to what end? Blair's career thus far suggests a capacity for ruthlessness, and he often recalls the question asked by a G.O.P. speaker at the 1984 Republican Convention: "When was the last time you heard a Democrat say no?" That, says Blair, was "too close to the truth for comfort...