Word: republican
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Under no circumstances will I vote to spend one penny of the Social Security trust fund on anything but Social Security," declaimed DeLay at the launch. Yet just hours later, the Republican-led Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that the GOP's current spending plan for next year would siphon at least $18 billion of the fund's surplus. And that, it said, was a conservative estimate. DeLay and the rest of the GOP leadership had little to say about the apparently glaring contradiction; the GOP rank and file sound worried. Under nocircumstances? "That's kind of an absolute statement...
...Winning the annual budget fight takes two things: Party unity and good public relations skills. Clinton has them; the Republicans, year after year, have shown themselves inept at both. It's not about whose ideas are better, it's about who presents them better, and who can come out of the scrap smelling like a rose. Tom DeLay started down the road to p.r. disaster a month ago, when the super-whip promised to spend so much that Clinton would have to negotiate "on his knees" to avoid dipping into the Social Security pool for his own programs. Well, they...
...Christian Coalition? A presence on the political map, says Dickerson. "There?s a nagging fear in the coalition that they are being marginalized. This group hasn?t backed a winning candidate or bill in a long time. They?ve lost whatever power they once may have had in the Republican party?s primary process, and things are looking even worse now that George W. Bush has made it clear that he?s not interested in being a vocal member of the anti-abortion movement." This latest attempt to steer themselves back into the center of the national political debate...
...upcoming presidential race continues to chug along, hauling a couple of stiff-necked Democrats and a slightly more colorful mix of Republican contenders. And for the most part, it has been a two-car train. The Reform Party--that alternative caboose that rode so visibly in 1992 and 1996--has been conspicuously lagging behind...
...candidates makes it difficult for the party to establish a coherent platform. There is even uncertainty in the party on budget policy and paying down the national debt, previously one of the party's most central platforms. Buchanan, for one, wants a tax cut that exceeds the already-irresponsible Republican proposal vetoed by President Clinton last week...