Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...credibility to the case for arts funding. Says Jack O'Brien, artistic director for San Diego's Old Globe Theater: "She has a realistic view of what we are up against, she is an eloquent advocate, she is a classy woman -- exactly what Capitol Hill should see." Says Illinois Democrat Sidney Yates, a congressional co-creator of the nea who chairs the subcommittee overseeing it: "She is well known, generally admired for her talents, bright and charming...
AFTER MONTHS OF FRETTING THAT BILL CLINTON ISN'T A NEW DEMOCRAT after all, that he's an unreconstructed liberal masquerading as a centrist, many pundits have changed their mind. Clinton, they now argue, is little different from George Bush. Recalling a litany of unfulfilled campaign pledges and a budget heavy on deficit reduction, the New York Times complains that Clinton "promised voters more than a rehash." That's right, and only the President's fabulists would deny that the rhetoric of 1992 rings a bit hollow in 1993. But overall, the rap is bum. America isn't close...
...most credible Democrat on the Committee is perhaps Sen. Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio. (Sen. Paul Simon of Illinois ranks a close second.) He is the classic, grandfatherly, elder statesman. Showing equal equanimity when asking pointed questions and making cordial remarks, Metzenbaum remains unbesmirched by major scandal. Unfortunately, the Senator has declared this term to be his last...
...fact that Metzenbaum, a Democrat, has voiced some of the most serious and thoroughly considered reservations about Ginsburg is further proof of his integrity. A member of the liberal National Lawyers' Guild, he spoke of his concern for Ginsburg's "preference for measured or incremental movement of the law" and her "concept of gradualism in applying the Constitution's provisions." While casting Ginsburg's nomination in a positive light overall, Metzenbaum made plain his wariness of a Justice apt to compromise with conservative bench-warmers like Antonin Scalia, Thomas, and William Rehnquist...
Thurmond is haunted by a past that does not exactly merit a seat on the Judiciary Committee. He was a rapid proponent of segregation in 1948 but has since become a repentant integrator. Originally a Democrat, he has become the definition of an archconservative Republican. Even with his experience, Thurmond must rest a few notches below Metzenbaum on the whom-do-you-trust totem pole...