Word: loyalist
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...change the rule for the man known as "the Hammer," and it has left some Republicans angry and concerned that their party looks arrogant. During a private caucus last Wednesday, more than 200 G.O.P. lawmakers argued for four hours over a proposal by Texas Representative Henry Bonilla, a DeLay loyalist, to do away with an 11-year-old party rule requiring leaders to relinquish their posts if indicted. DeLay, who stood in the back of the room and remained silent, insists he didn't orchestrate the change. Under the new rules, the party's steering committee will review an indictment...
...resent the influence of foreigners. Whoever wins, the more disturbing development is that some Iraqi jihadis, hoping to take their fight beyond Iraq's borders, are threatening to launch a terrorist campaign in the U.S. "If America continues to shield its people from the truth," says an al-Zarqawi loyalist, "we shall transport the battle to where their public cannot...
...crucial economic portfolio, further cementing his reputation as the man to beat. Sarkozy may well run for the presidency of the party at its next general convention in November. If he doesn't run, he'll certainly put up a "sarkoziste" for that post, running against a Chirac loyalist. And that doesn't begin to exhaust the currents within the ump. Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, 43, for example, says he wants to lead the party back to its Gaullist roots. "The President's positions on the constitution and on Turkey are untenable - the party doesn't want to go with...
...that al-Sadr's men raid shops for supplies, confiscate mobile telephones and arrest people on suspicion of spying. A pro-al-Sadr newspaper ran a picture last week of a man hanged by al-Sadr followers for "spying." Waving the photo, Muntadhar al-Khazali, 18, an al-Sadr loyalist, issued a threat to others: "Anyone who works against us, this will be their fate. We will never let Muqtada al-Sadr die. If America is such a great country, why doesn't it come and get him?" Perhaps because there's a reasonable chance that someone else will first...
...allies widely believe that Powell, never a Kool-Aid drinker, has one foot out the door and is polishing his credentials accordingly. "The Powellites think Bush is going to lose the election, and they think he's going to lose because of the war that they opposed," a Bush loyalist says. "They want to win the ideological contest." But whatever Powell's motives, the White House believed that if the Secretary's doubts had been left out there, unanswered, for more than 24 hours, other Republicans would soon have piled on. "The Powell comment caused them to get mad enough...