Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clinton, according to a Democratic Party operative who spoke with him last week, is anxious and confused about his looming migration to the middle. One reason is that Clinton still deeply resents the Democratic moderates for abandoning him on elements of his economic program and health-care reform. Now he must turn to them to revive his presidency -- only to find their ranks depleted. For Clinton, the scenario is almost sad: elected as a New Democrat, he stumbled during his first two years in office largely because he proposed Big Government solutions, like his health-care plan, to a populace...
...poised to control more seats than at any time in the past 40 years. In the Senate, where G.O.P. control was only seven seats away, conservative candidates were faring better than more pragmatic hopefuls. In both parties, moderates were in retreat. The trend, said Senator John Breaux, a Louisiana Democrat and committed middle-of-the-road er, is "not conducive to bipartisanship and building coalitions...
...than Republican Michael Huffington. Ross Perot extended his vendetta against the Bush family across the generations by backing Texas Governor Ann Richards over First Son George W. Bush. In Pennsylvania, Teresa Heinz, widow of Republican Senator John Heinz, dismissed G.O.P. upstart Rick Santorum in favor of the more patrician Democrat Harris Wofford, calling Santorum "short on public service and even shorter on accomplishments." In the G.O.P., at least, the center would not hold...
...string of crossover endorsements gave the White House some badly needed cheer. Clinton aides made hopeful claims that they might reduce Democratic losses in the Senate by taking over seats in Minnesota and Vermont. Clinton stopped twice in Minnesota last week while crisscrossing the country in an effort to lift Democrat Ann Wynia above Republican Representative Rod Grams...
Washington's reaction is cautious. Castro's little brother is a committed communist, not a free marketeer or democrat. The U.S. has demanded that Cuba enact political as well as economic reforms before lifting the 32-year-old trade embargo. Raul's technical fixes have so far been accompanied by increased repression of political dissidents. According to the Pentagon, a post-Castro Cuba cannot be truly capitalistic and democratic if the military is ingrained in the economy. But as other communist governments have learned, economic reforms often create a market for democracy. Raul and his generals may yet discover...