Word: flips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...government as "the problem"; their views are "trapped by their antitax and antigovernment rhetoric," says Conner. "When they talk about rights and responsibilities, the red flags go up. People see them as being demanding without being supportive, as wanting to take without being willing to give." On the flip side, adds Conner, in an analysis Clinton shares, "liberals are going to have to realize that the only way to generate public support for expanding the programs they see people needing is to accept linking that help to some very tough disincentives, and even coercion, for those who don't understand...
Taxes. Well, this one can never work for the Democrats--not with their spend, spend, spend reputation--but at least this time it will not work against them either. Bush's rather sudden post-election flip-flop from "Read my lips: No new taxes" to "Just ignore this tax increase" has robbed him of legitimacy on this very touchy subject. America is not likely to forget the greatest campaign lie in recent history...
...care legislation and a tax-rate cut for middle-class Americans -- will resonate among voters. But like any other incumbent President, Bush has an almost limitless ability to co-opt the agenda. The Democrats have already been forced to respond to Bush's vision of education reform, and his flip-flop on the issue of extending unemployment benefits proves his political suppleness...
...might go beyond that. Because Dodgers general manager Fred Claire called "heads" in a coin flip last month, Los Angeles won the toss and the right to host a one-game playoff Monday night. That, too, will...
...flip side, there was Amy Carnevale, a 14-year-old cheerleader. According to Salem prosecutors, her jealous 16-year-old ex-boyfriend slashed her throat, stabbed her repeatedly, and then enlisted the help of his friend, throwing her lifeless, weighted body into a pond, laughing the whole time. "Sucks to be you, Amy," he reportedly said as she sank...