Word: republican
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...benefited from the boom of the 1990s, suggesting that the same lunch-pail issues that delivered New York to Bill in 1992 could help deliver it to Hillary in 2000. Her signature concerns--economic fairness and child welfare, education reform and affordable health care--won't carry the largely Republican upstate against Giuliani, but they could keep it close enough for her to win, since she's likely to beat him handily in his own (Democratic) hometown. The race's great unknown is who would take the New York City suburbs, where both are very popular...
...make matters worse, Clinton got everywhere first, grabbed all the good seats. He embraced the Republican plan to lock the future Social Security surpluses away to pay down the debt, while also talking tax cuts and the largest expansion ever in Medicare. He has proposed a $156 billion "Children and Education Trust Fund" as well as new retirement-savings accounts. It's almost enough to make the budget hawks wish for recession...
Then there is the lack of discipline in the G.O.P. When Republican revolutionaries were running back in 1994, they stood before the voters and said, in essence, "If you want another wheat-research facility in this district, vote for the other guy. We don't need it, and our grandchildren will have to pay for it, and I won't do it." Voters approved and conservatives cheered, but once in office the rebels seemed to forget the gospel they ran on--forgot their promise to serve only three terms, or to fight pork-barrel spending, or to forswear the politics...
There in grainy black and white is the young John McCain, lieutenant commander, U.S.N., shot down in October 1967. In pain, he mutters to the camera that he loves his wife. McCain--now, of course, Republican Senator from Arizona and running for President--refused the early release that the North Vietnamese offered him (his father was commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific), an act of solidarity that earned him additional torture...
...Republicans have been holding together well," reports TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson. "They believe they have managed a series of votes that will give them cover as having addressed HMO complaints." Democrats, while somewhat disappointed that the HMO debate has not created more of a national stir, have passionately denounced the Republican moves as an attempt to pass an industry-protection act instead of a patient-protection act. The White House continues to send signals that it will veto the Republican bill if it emerges from Congress unchanged. "Clinton solidly believes that the defeated Democratic positions are controversial only inside...