Word: gridlocking
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...saving billions of dollars, a smaller tax cut would allow the Medicare cuts to be somewhat smaller. But that is a fallback position, many weeks away. Until then, many threats will be made and bluffs will be called. And Americans will come to realize that the breaking up of gridlock is not a quiet process...
When Newt Gingrich was fighting his way through a horde of reporters into Border Books in Phoenix, Arizona, last Wednesday, it didn't take too much imagination to reduce the temperature by 70 degrees, raze the palm trees, and picture another gray-haired politician caught in press gridlock in Manchester, New Hampshire, in 1992, right after Gennifer Flowers made her charges against then-Governor Bill Clinton. Now it's Gingrich's turn, and it's Anne Manning, a former campaign worker, who went on the record for the first time in a just-published Vanity Fair article saying...
Clinton may make himself more Perot-esque by appearing, against all odds, to get work done. He has developed a strategy to use Executive Orders to make things happen just as Congress is expected to be seized by gridlock on the budget this fall. By fiat, Clinton last week forced lobbyists who work at influencing the Executive Branch to register and disclose who is paying their fees. Similarly, he intends to compel federal agencies to limit cigarette sales to minors and, perhaps, to augment the environmental protections that Republicans voted last week to proscribe...
...platform is found in the positions the candidates stake out," he says. O'Connell says the group's mission is "to try to end divisiveness and gridlock in City Hall" while engaging in "dialogue and consensus-building...
...Litigation gridlock would be the inevitable consequence [of judicial review]," she said...