Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clinton's survival hangs on the answer, as House and Senate Democrats ponder how much they are willing to risk to defend a President who has again and again abandoned them when the tables were turned. Consider how their fortunes have differed in the six years since Clinton rode into the capital as a new kind of Democrat: the President triumphed in his deals with Republicans to balance the budget, reform welfare and open trade. Cutting his party loose, he launched his own job-approval ratings to gravity-defying heights. Meanwhile, Democrats lost not only their New Deal traditions...
...have been his undoing. The voters of the former East Germany, embittered by rampant unemployment and economic stagnation, appear to have tipped the balance in the landmark election Sunday that ousted a sitting chancellor for the first time in modern German history. Gerhard Schroeder, a 56-year-old Social Democrat who had retooled his party along the centrist "Third Way" lines championed by Bill Clinton and Tony Blair, soundly defeated Kohl in the hard-fought election. But he won't find it easy to make good on promises to give East Germans a new deal while cutting taxes and welfare...
Although he is a Democrat, Zollo acknowledged, "The Democrats today are acting just as partisan as the Republicans acted during Watergate...
Finneran's disturbing comments may reflect less the real concerns of a party leader and more the personal worries of someone whose power would be severely diminished should a Democrat become governor. Several years ago, in a contest against a liberal Democrat who had a plurality of Democratic votes, the Speaker gained his position by promising a small group of Republicans to be sympathetic to their needs if they would vote him into the speaker's chair...
...grew up as a Democrat with a big 'D', but it was democrat with a small 'd' that solidified my interest in politics," Kemmis said...