Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lawmakers still regard talk of reforming the system as the supreme act of political recklessness. A detailed program was recommended last year by Senators Bob Kerrey, a Nebraska Democrat, and John Danforth, a Missouri Republican (since retired), who were appointed by President Clinton to head a bipartisan commission on entitlement reform. Their plan called for raising the retirement age to 70, cutting the benefits of upper-income retirees, and recalculating the Consumer Price Index...
...rippling effect on the nation's perception of the role that the president plays in our government. Finally, Clinton must be cautious of those who advise him to move to the right (or further to the right), as a means to appease Conservatives. Such a move by a centrist Democrat is sure to prove politically fatal...
...landscape around him has been transformed. George Bush never got to serve a second term; the Democrat who succeeded him became impossibly vulnerable. Then lightning struck in the form of the momentous 1994 election that returned Dole to his old job as majority leader, with his own party running Congress for the first time in 40 years...
...question persists: Is the rest of America ready for him? He is an effective, if often brutal, campaigner. In his race against Democrat Lloyd Doggett for the U.S. Senate in 1984, Gramm repeatedly attacked his opponent for receiving an unsolicited donation from a gay group. "He pounded and pounded at that, and it took us out of the race," says Clinton adviser Paul Begala, who worked in Doggett's campaign. "I would describe him as vicious and ruthless." But Gramm will need more than a simple instinct for the jugular to win in 1996. Though he has rejected any attempts...
...nomic slump. Since last summer, though, the surfing state has been riding a wave of sustained recovery. And the buoyancy has helped carry Wilson into the front rank of potential contenders for the Republican ticket. Finally he has something to sing about. Says political consultant Joseph Cerell, a Democrat: "Wilson pulled off the biggest upset of the '94 election because Kathleen Brown was considered a slam-dunk winner, and that comeback-of-the-year award has raised him to presidential status...