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...can tell when the politicians??are getting serious about an issue: they stop taking cheap shots at one another and suddenly become pragmatic. Amazingly, that's happening right now on global warming. Just as the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns of "abrupt and irreversible" damage if we don't take immediate action, a serious piece of climate legislation is beginning to pick up speed in the U.S. Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Change of Climate | 11/21/2007 | See Source »

This was an offensive attempt to portray the Democratic campaigners?and indeed all U.S. politicians???as being guilty of the same kind of improper and criminal activity as that of his adherents. No "mob violence" was evident when the Watergate bugging was planned or carried out, nor was there much reason to expect any as a result of Democratic tactics; even if there had been such an expectation, it would hardly have justified the Watergate or related enterprises. While there obviously is plenty of political corruption on all sides, there is no evidence that Democrats?or other Republicans?burglarized offices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Nixon's Nightmare: Fighting to Be Believed | 5/14/1973 | See Source »

...Instruction), M. Gallet (Pensions). It is just possible that the presence of these Radical Socialists will swing the vote of that party to the cabinet, though Hornet Daladier was believed preparing to sting again. In reality Tardieu L'Americain was appealing to French public opinion over the heads of politicians???a trick he may possibly have learned in the U. S. On the face of things his "republicans of good will" commanded no certain majority, last week, but Le Dauphin boldly announced that he would wait five days before facing the Chamber, and in that interval it was entirely possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Tardieu Cabinet | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Even more trenchant was Novelist Arnold Bennett's contribution: "Pernicious Politicians???Their Cause and Cure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Frankau's Britannia | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

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