Word: kentuckian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...McConnell?s promised filibuster, of course, that is the probably insurmountable hurdle that McCain-Feingold faces. The Kentuckian makes no bones about how he feels about a soft-money ban, calling it "one of the tragedies of our time" that such a bill "is allowed to be advanced as reform." McConnell equates unlimited campaign money with free speech, and his solution to the ongoing sale of U.S. politicians is to raise prices, not lower them. With McConnell waiting to pounce with his own version of the Mr. Smith myth, McCain and Feingold need 60 votes to pass their bill...
...which point the novel and hero again change character. Virgil falls among militia fanatics, whose bellicose posturing he watches without comprehension. As a Kentuckian, he understands a gun culture, but not the Westerners' devout hatred of the Federal Government. By now he is a wholly passive observer, as Offutt's narration heads off at right angles to itself, and the militia crazies prepare to end the tale in righteous fury. The author can't do for the Montana Aryans what he did for the Rocksalt garbage crew, which is to see them sympathetically, from the inside out. No one else...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "The Republican tax cut will give the average Kentuckian enough money to buy one hamburger a week; it will give the rich enough money to buy a new car every year...
...beginning, some locals like Randy Sinkhorn, a fifth-generation Kentuckian who trains welders and other hands at the Georgetown plant, had to overcome deep-seated doubts about working for the Japanese. Even today, Sinkhorn says, laughing, people outside the area want to know, "'Do you work like a dog 15 and 20 hours a day?'" He says he doesn...