Word: gop
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...debate had proven it a bad idea. By rejecting it now, we have, in Clinton's words, "severely harm[ed] the national security of the United States" and "damage[d] our relationship with our allies." Unfortunately, these concerns don't seem to matter as long as Lott and the GOP have a chance to publicly embarrass their arch-nemesis...
With all those good numbers, the only danger now seems to be in getting out of the way of those stampeding to take credit. It's all due to prisons, claimed the GOP, citing their legislation encouraging longer prison sentences and claiming that this keeps criminals off the streets and acts as a considerable deterrent. Others point to the strong economy and say that in a nation where seemingly everybody's little brother is in on a hot IPO, now more than ever crime doesn't pay. And demographers say it's simply the fact that there are now fewer...
...corruption," McConnell said on Thursday, challenging McCain to come forth with specific charges against individual senators. "How can there be corruption if no one is corrupt? That's like saying the gang is corrupt but none of the gangsters are." And on and on the Senate?s head GOP fund-raiser went, joined variously by Utah Republican Robert Bennett and Washington GOPer Slade Gorton, both mentioned on McCain?s web site as rather pliant targets of soft-money donations. And thus was Thursday frittered away...
...bemused horror) didn?t harm his chances of picking up those votes. That?s because those chances remain at slim to none, and to mangle the old aphorism, Slim?s out back holding a fund-raiser. With McConnell the one in charge of doling out the Senate GOP?s soft money, Republicans aren?t too keen on bucking him. Still, McCain and Feingold have done their part to make the bill as simple as possible, so as to give no one an easy excuse. They?ve shorn the bill of its amendments and put it forth as purely a soft...
...Gore are free-traders ? Gore?s biggest moment was defending NAFTA against Perot ? and there hasn?t been a word about that." Of course, George W. Bush?s own dad was the father of NAFTA, and the unions know that bickering over this Democrat or that only helps the GOP...