Word: republican
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...other politicians are discovering, making outrageous public statements about organized religion isn't the only way to be an anti-politician. Republican presidential frontrunner George W. Bush's style of being the anti-Clinton is to say "fuck" a lot in front of reporters. The idea, apparently, is to jar us all by how little he cares about his image, in stark contrast to the relentlessly image-conscious Clinton. Bush also wants us to know that, unlike the legendarily wonkish president, he isn't a nerd. Has the number of abortions fallen during his governorship? "I don't know, probably...
Thompson, a Republican, described to audience members his now-famous "Wisconsin Works" welfare reform program (W-2), which was first implemented earlier this year...
...George W. Bush isn?t careful, he?s going to make the Republican party popular again. The front-running Texas governor on Tuesday rolled out the second of three major education proposals for a conservative Manhattan crowd ?- and pointedly accused them of straying from the true path. "Too often on social issues my party has painted an image of America slouching toward Gomorrah.... Too often my party has focused on the national economy to the exclusion of all else.... Too often my party has confused the need for limited government with the disdain for government itself," he said...
...last race for the Senate, in 1990, Bradley got a comeuppance. While pundits were writing about his presidential ambitions, he was almost beaten by Republican Christine Todd Whitman--then a political novice, now New Jersey's Governor. To many, Bradley seemed out of touch with his state, and he refused to denounce Governor Jim Florio for a series of tax increases that had cost Florio his popularity. "It was a peculiar political price for Bradley to pay," says Torricelli, "because loyalty to local leaders was not his reputation. He didn't understand the sensitivity to these taxes, and it almost...
...site based in Alaska (the second one is slated for North Dakota). China is equally perturbed at the idea, since U.S. allies in the Pacific, like Japan, are certain to clamor for the technology. But there's considerable pressure to disregard the Cold War-imposed treaties, particularly in the Republican-controlled Congress. "There?s great political momentum for this right now," says Thompson, "to ignore the Russians, scrap the whole treaty and start building the system." And there?s a certain logic to that - when it comes to nuclear defense, all or nothing always trumps a compromise. "One site...