Word: nothingism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"These guys hate McCain," says TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson. "They think he?s sanctimonious, and their seats are so safe that they risk absolutely nothing with a free walloping." And this time the maverick brought it on himself. "McCain tripped up," says Dickerson. "By bringing up specific pork barrel...
"Scaling back the campaign finance reform bill may get more Republicans aboard, but it leaves many of us who have been involved in the reform movement for years... believing that we are doing something and accomplishing nothing,"
But the foreign policy drift precedes the Lewinsky scandal. In fact, the CTBT debacle confirms a steady trend throughout the '90s of diminishing attention to Washington?s international commitments, and a diminishing of the office of the presidency as the locus of foreign policy decision making. Voting down an arms...
Yet there is a more subtle and scary element to these preferences: when you ask these otherwise intelligent and thoughtful people why they support these candidates, they freely admit it's because they know nothing about what these men think. It seems they want to keep it that way, revel...
As the governor of Colorado considers appointing a special prosecutor to the murder investigation, people everywhere are shaking their heads in disbelief. What have the police been doing all this time? Nothing particularly productive, apparently, especially given that JonBenet?s immediate family is linked to some pretty damning evidence: a...