Word: reductionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clinton surely hopes the rest of the nation will too. White House adviser Paul Begala is working on a speech to be broadcast from the Oval Office this week. More than 20 senior officials have been installed in a "war room" in the Old Executive Office Building, where, aided by...
But it is Clinton who will have to make the difference. Two weekends ago, deputy White House communications chief David Dreyer dug up videotapes of George Bush literally running away from a controversial deficit-reduction deal in October 1990, when he dismissed the package with a glib invitation to "Read...
Democrats in the Senate and House stitched together a budget-plan compromise Friday evening -- with themselves. The party's conferees resolved most differences between the version passed earlier by the two chambers, but ended up fecklessly falling a bit short of the $500 billion deficit-reduction goal set by President...
AFTER MONTHS OF FRETTING THAT BILL CLINTON ISN'T A NEW DEMOCRAT after all, that he's an unreconstructed liberal masquerading as a centrist, many pundits have changed their mind. Clinton, they now argue, is little different from George Bush. Recalling a litany of unfulfilled campaign pledges and a budget...
If the emphasis on debt taming is neo-Republican -- an accommodation to Ross Perot and the financial establishment's doomsayers -- the methodology of Clinton's deficit reduction is very much his own. Tax "fairness" (to use the President's word) is real. Nearly 80% of the increases fall on the...