Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...treatment of North by his political colleagues has been still more bizarre. Ronald Reagan refused early on to endorse North. Who would know Ollie's true capacity for the job better than our kindly old ex-president/king? Despite the old boss's attitude, other Republican heavyweights such as Bob Dole have flocked to Virginia to support the Dentally Deficient...
...Institutes of Heath issued a formal request for a proposal, tactfully giving it the bland title "Social and Behavioral Aspects of Fertility Related Behavior" in an attempt to slip under the radar of right- wing politicians. But the euphemism fooled no one - least of all Jesse Helms. In the Reagan and Bush era, any government funding for sex research was suspect, and the Senator from North Carolina was soon lobbying to have the project killed. The Chicago team redesigned the study several times to assuage conservative critics, dropping the questions about masturbation and agreeing to curtail the interview once...
...brilliant at bullying have a vision? "Gingrich is a great communicator," says pollster Frank Luntz, a Republican who worked for Ross Perot in 1992. "He knows what it takes to say the right thing and do the right thing to get us a majority. He is Ronald Reagan, only smarter." Preparing for his performance on the Capitol steps last week, Gingrich has had Luntz conduct focus groups every 10 days since January. And two weeks before he paraded his "Republican Contract with America," he held what a participant called a "serious, intense" dinner at the Republican Capitol Hill Club with...
...wasn't supposed to be like this. The Democrats who rule both houses of Congress had blamed Washington's stasis on George Bush and Ronald Reagan and promised to "end the gridlock" if only voters would send a Democrat to the White House. And, to be sure, President Clinton and Congress have reduced the budget deficit, expanded trade with Mexico and Canada and passed a big anticrime bill. But as his approval ratings have dived into the low 40s, the President and his party's leaders have failed to win sufficient support among Democrats in Congress to pass such major...
House Republican lawmakers and candidates paraded in front of TV cameras on Capitol Hill to sign a "Contract with America," a midterm platform that, pace Reagan, promises tax cuts and increased military spending, as well as a balanced budget. President Clinton was quick to ridicule the plan as "the same old trickle-down economics...