Word: shamelessness
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...more responsibly, called for the elimination of tax breaks for those same companies. If you eliminate the tax breaks, you effectively eliminate the windfall profits. There would be nothing to tax. In any case, the "holiday" had next to no chance of passing Congress. Her sell was, well, shameless pandering...
...Clinton's apparent loss of the nomination was a consequence of her campaign's incompetence, but it was also a result of her reliance on the same-old. The shameless populism that seemed a possible game changer to media observers, micro-ideas like the gas-tax holiday, the willingness to go negative - which Obama tried intermittently, in halfhearted reaction to Clinton's attacks - appeared very old and clichéd to Obama's legion of young supporters, who were the real game changers in this year of extraordinary turnouts. That, and the fact that Democrats have been the party...
...There was a warmth and a feistiness to Clinton in Pennsylvania - the very qualities that Obama was lacking. She had embraced the shameless rituals of politics, including some classic low-information signals, downing shots of Crown Royal and promising lower gas prices, attacking her opponent over trivia and threatening to "obliterate" Iran. It was enough to earn the ire of the New York Times editorial page, which harrumphed, "By staying on the attack and not engaging Mr. Obama on the substance of issues ... she undercuts the rationale for her candidacy that led this page and others to support her: that...
...British law restricts details of the investigation from being published, but several British papers reported that police were examining alleged similarities between the case and a storyline from a British television drama series, Shameless, shown less than a month before the 9-year-old vanished. In that episode, the head of a dysfunctional family staged a fake kidnap of his son in an attempt to obtain a ransom...
...Shannon's mother, initially held up as a paragon of noble stoicism, appeared to incorrectly state how many children she had in media interviews (she said six; in reality she has seven children from five fathers). Then came the connection to the television show, Shameless, a satire on residents of council estates, and their harebrained schemes to claw themselves out. As anger turned on the Matthews family this week, police boarded up the house Shannon and her family had inhabited and distributed leaflets to local residents instructing them "not to jump to conclusions about people who may be involved...