Word: republican
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...CTBT, which requires a two-thirds vote of the Senate for ratification, was stalled for two years by Republican senators while the White House foolishly neglected to lobby in its favor. During that time, the treaty's opponents have solicited support; now the treaty has been yanked back into action when the Republicans feel certain that they have the votes to block it. The treaty was scheduled to come to a vote today, although President Clinton has requested that it be delayed to give the country more time to consider a vital issue of security...
...work with him, oh, absolutely," says Republican state senator Jim Brulte. "On fiscal issues, he's closer to us than to the Democrats." And considering that Democrats now monopolize state government, it could have been worse, says assembly minority leader Scott Baugh. "He has tempered the insatiable appetite of the liberals...
...difference between McCain and Bush is evident in how they have handled being the sons of accomplished men. Last Monday a powerful Republican former speaker of the house in Texas testified in an obscure lawsuit that he had pulled strings to get the young Bush into the state's Air National Guard, though he had not been directly pressured to do so by Bush's father. However he did it, Bush was able to avoid Vietnam, like so many sons of the well-connected, while McCain became a POW, having his teeth and head and broken bones smashed in until...
Bush provided fresh contrasts to McCain last week. While McCain blasted fellow Republican Pat Buchanan for arguing that America did not have to take on Hitler, Bush appeased him, explaining that "I need all the votes" he could get. While McCain says he is running "because I owe America more than she has ever owed me," Bush sometimes seems motivated by a need to redeem his father's defeat. He keeps bringing it up in a way that suggests it has been his life's deepest wound. Last Wednesday he said that Buchanan's 1992 candidacy had had a role...
...week ago Saturday, the Governor could be found with Dad at the Ryder Cup golf tournament, having skipped the tedium of the California Republican Party's convention. To spur the American team on to its jingoistic, fist-pumping victory, Bush gave a pep talk in which he compared the brave golfers fighting to win a noisome corporate-infested sporting event to the brave men who fought to save the Alamo--the use of the profound in service of the mundane...