Word: dicks
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...that had been developing since the beginning of the television age. It has proved a radical change in the nature of the presidency. Every President since Lyndon Johnson has run his Administration from a political consultant's eye view. Untold millions have been spent on polling and focus groups. Dick Morris even asked voters where Bill Clinton should go on vacation. The pressure to "win" the daily news cycle-to control the news-has overwhelmed the more reflective, statesmanlike aspects of the office...
...White House proposed a massive Medicare prescription-drug plan and then flat-out misrepresented the true costs (and quietly included a windfall for drug companies). Every bit of congressional vanity spending, every last tax cut, was approved. Reagan proved that "deficits don't matter," insisted Vice President Dick Cheney...
...controversial Op-Ed. I had been invited to a fancy Washington country club by friends. Since the club didn't allow the use of cell phones, I kept running from pool to parking lot to try to reach Libby, who was traveling to Norfolk, Va., with Vice President Dick Cheney for the commissioning of the U.S.S. Ronald Reagan. Eventually I raced home without showering in order to take Libby's call. When he finally reached me at around 3 p.m., we spoke for a few minutes as I sprawled on my bed. I had no idea that that brief phone...
...first newshound to sniff out Veep Dick Cheney's stealth efforts to exempt the CIA from Senator John McCain's bill banning inhumane treatment of U.S. detainees? BALKINIZATION'S Marty Lederman, a law professor who back in January started parsing Justice Department memos that seemed geared to "identify the legal limits, if any, that apply to interrogation techniques used by the CIA." When Cheney finally asked McCain last week to support such an exemption, other blogs were prompted to weigh in. "We are not fighting a normal enemy," posted THE HOUSTON CONSERVATIVE. "McCain needs to shut up and go home...
...talk with Larry King, Libby also discussed the prerogatives of the presidency and the opinion of Dick Cheney that certain things have to be handled away from the public view. "He firmly believes-believes to the point where, when he talks about it, his eyes get a little bluer-that for the presidency to operate properly, it needs to be able to have confidential communications," Libby said. The question now is whether some of Libby's own confidential communications will in fact hinder the presidency it was meant to help...