Word: pro-republican
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...free markets and level playing fields; the lobbyist ideal is influencing the levers of power to help clients. In the Bush Administration, lobbyists control those levers of power, and use them to provide corporate welfare, tax breaks, access to public land, and other big-government goodies to friends in pro-Republican industries. Baroody knows how to work those levers; he's worked in the Washington henhouse since 1970, and he's intimately familiar with the CPSC. Consumer activists had called him "totally unqualified," but they're breathing easier today because they know he's just the opposite...
...YORK—According to Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism, the Fox News Channel is a conservatively biased, pro-Republican network whose “fair and balanced” maxim is nothing less than a lie. A legitimate argument, indeed—and one that calls for a nuanced, gripping and affecting cinematic expos?...
...recent weeks, pro-Republican interest groups based in Washington, such as Americans for Tax Reform and the National Right to Life Committee, have aired television and radio ads in New Hampshire criticizing McCain for his stands on campaign-finance reform and other issues. McCain has accused Bush of having surrogates do his dirty work--a charge the Bush campaign has shrugged off as ridiculous. And in New York, where Bush has the support of Governor George Pataki and most of the state G.O.P., McCain is suing over the procedural hurdles he faces trying to get on the ballot...
BIBLICAL SCOREBOARD (BS) claims to be a "nonpartisan nonsectarian" publication. Its executives deny that it is pro-Republican, though it seldom says anything good about the Democrats. "Scoreboard recommends to its readers that they vote for the candidates which best represent Judeo-Christian values--those that are pro-family, pro-morality, pro-traditional values, pro-freedom, pro-biblical...
...mother, De Valera was sent to his grandmother's in County Limerick at the age of two, when his father died. He taught mathematics after graduating from Ireland's Royal University but soon turned to politics. In 1913, the gawky, bespectacled De Valera signed on with the pro-Republican Irish Volunteers, quickly rising to battalion commandant. Three years later, De Valera deployed some 50 men around their battle station for the Easter Rising against the British: a bakery dominating the approaches to Central Dublin. "You have but one life to live and one death to die," he exhorted...