Word: fecklessness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Americans seem to be addicted to something that is bad for them--booze, cigarettes, excessive getting and spending. Drugs, naturally, are at the top of the hell list--they kill, they addle, they lie at the heart of a vast criminal enterprise, and the feckless "war" against them mostly wastes billions of public dollars every year. Traffic is the epic of our despair on this topic, an attempt to gather all the strands of the issue in one place and implicitly show how they entangle people at every level of society...
...made them roll over and play dead, threw the invisibility cloak over the congressional wing of his party and made them disappear. Stripped of every winning Republican issue--the cold war, crime, the economy--he proceeded to run on Democratic ones--education, health care, Social Security. Lampooned as a feckless frat boy, he ran a more disciplined race than we have seen in years; he made his inexperience a virtue, his vagueness a shield, his sins a sign of sincerity...
...talk of the imperial judiciary lately. Conservatives generally abhor judicial activism, or what they call judicial legislation. But in this whole imbroglio in Florida it seems to me that the various judiciaries have acquitted themselves better than any other of the dramatis personae. The candidates have been feckless and self-serving; the legislature has been reflexively partisan; only the courts and judges have actually tried to take a step back and try to make sense out of things...
...this regard, Mr. Gore's campaign is guilty of the most grievous sins thus far, with their feckless insistence, in the absence of any real evidence, that the "will of the people" grants Florida's electors to Gore--and with their reckless promises to forge ahead with lawsuits on behalf of the befuddled voters of Palm Beach County...
...running out of time for feckless moaning. Only days to go. They paid their money - what's our choice? The 1960 analogy is disconcerting. That election came after the relatively serene Eisenhower years. And pretty soon after 1960, all hell broke loose - assassinations, riots, war, the glorious '60s. And the onset of the dark, ruined presidencies - Lyndon Johnson's, Richard Nixon...