Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...only four years ago that Sen. Jim Bunning of Kentucky stood in front of a buoyant crowd of victorious Republicans at a Lincoln Day dinner in Louisville and broke down in tears about his friend Mitch McConnell. "I hope everybody here understands how much he stuck his neck out for me through thick and thin during that race last year," Bunning, 77, said pointing to Kentucky's senior senator, the number two Senate Republican at the time and the key architect of the GOP's astonishing ascendancy in the state over the previous decade. McConnell, 67, had indeed spent much...
...Caliber • self-proclamation of as "Republican rapper" turns out, as expected, to be an oxymoron...
Huntsman, Gov. Jon • need for Republican party to rethink itself - "You cannot succeed being a party of the South and a couple of western states. It ... isn't long-term sustainable" (or, really, even, these days, short-term sustainable) - is expressed...
Limbaugh, Rush • groveling at the feet of by penitent Republicans is mocked by enemies of • preference of for country of going down in flames rather than political philosophy of being proven erroneous is expressed quite emphatically by • reference by Paul Begala to as "the bloated face and drug-addled voice of the Republican party" • rooting of for planet to explode...
...former spies argue that the Agency's staff need to be protected from changes in political climate. A joint statement issued by Feinstein and her Republican counterpart on the committee, Missouri Senator Kit Bond, said the probe will examine, among other things, "whether the CIA implemented the program in compliance with official guidance, including covert action findings, Office of Legal Counsel opinions, and CIA policy." But the staffers responsible for carrying out detention and interrogation policies, they say, would never have used the controversial techniques if it had not been for explicit legal guidance from the Bush Administration...