Word: gridlocking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...orders in a reasonable amount of time. Yes, MacArthur was involved with actual troop movements, but years for closing bases and months for integrating gays are certainly unreasonable amounts of time. Clinton doesn't have to sack the Joint Chiefs, but he shouldn't have to put up with gridlock in a branch of government he controls...
This illusion pretended that if Democrats controlled the presidency and Congress, gridlock would end. During the campaign, liberals could list the well-intentioned legislation that had been passed recently and sigh, "If only Bush hadn't vetoed...
...theory sounds good, but it ignores politics. Under Bush, congressional Democrats often passed laws they didn't fully support because they knew the president would veto them--the goal of the legislation was simply to underscore the evils of gridlock and emphasize the divide between Democrats and Republicans. Now that they know Clinton will sign the legislation, moderate Democrats are much less willing, for example, to approve a law codifying the unrestricted right to abortion...
...President raged that the Republicans were casting "votes for paralysis." Unfazed, G.O.P. leaders retorted that the spending bill, which steamed through the House last month, was an old-fashioned "tax and spend" bill larded with pork. "The American people are going to look at gridlock as a very favorable thing before too much time goes by," said Republican Senator John Chafee of Rhode Island...
Bill Clinton incessantly told voters last fall that he would end gridlock between the White House and Congress. That is one campaign promise he might keep. In early tests, the heavily Democratic majority in the House of Representatives has acted like an Administration steamroller. It easily passed not only a budget resolution embodying Clinton's ideas for tax increases and spending cuts but also the President's plan to spend an extra $16 billion to give an immediate stimulus to the economy. Some conservative Democrats had fought the additional spending as unnecessary, but on the decisive vote they heeded pleas...