Word: mavericks
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...have rarely read a published political article where the author seemed to know so little about basic American politics (“The Mirage of the Maverick...
...long opposed pork, and whether the author knows it or not, he was specifically referring to a infamous piece of pork in his reference to an Alaskan “Bridge to Nowhere” shamefully advocated by a fellow GOP senator. Both these issues also substantiate his Maverick labeling, as well as his opposing Bush very publicly on torture, Donald Rumsfeld’s performance as secretary of defense long before his resignation, and on the now-much-derided Medicare drug bill on the basis of fiscal responsibility...
McCain believes that hypocrisy is the “most obvious of political sins,” but his own hypocrisy is what is most galling. With help from the national media, Senator McCain has built part of his reputation on his image as a maverick in the Republican Party, a moderate who can appeal to a majority of Americans. But the facts show that John McCain is anything but a centrist, and that he is not what Americans, or the Republican Party, need for the future...
Putin, says Alexei Kondaurov, a former KGB general who is now a maverick Duma deputy, is known for keeping score and for a long memory. So the idea that he would want an infuriating gadfly like Litvinenko to disappear is not beyond reason. But the President's defenders scoff at the idea that he might have been involved in Litvinenko's death. Putin, they say, had no need to get rid of Litvinenko; the exile was an irrelevant crank. Milton Bearden, a former CIA spy in Moscow, as well as other experienced intelligence hands, agrees it would be nuts...
...been under pressure for its part in President George W. Bush's coalition in Iraq and also because of several rises in interest rates. Rudd is the fourth Labor leader Howard has faced in three years. The P.M. always appeared comfortable rumbling with Beazley, less so against the maverick Mark Latham, who assumed the Labor leadership in 2003 at a similar point in the electoral cycle. With a new deputy leader, Julia Gillard, 45, Labor's first couple is raw, untried and energetic. But Rudd is in a hurry. Are his colleagues, the media and voters ready for the ride...