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Politicians have quickly adopted the foolish language of the press, and the accompanying majoritarian mindset. "I intend to get down to business," House Speaker Dennis Hastert said last month at his swearing-in. "That means formulating, debating and voting on legislation that addresses the problems that the American people want solved." Politicians must walk a fine line between reminding us what we want and urging us to embrace some wants and abandon others. The fact that the Republicans anointed someone as apparently unvisionary as Hastert indicates the consequences of the run to the center in American politics: the desperate capitulation...
Yang said she was happy, however, withaudience-speaker interaction, which she said hadincreased from last year. In previous years, Yangexplained, speakers would fly in, give theirspeeches and leave...
Dershowitz said he also remains concerned aboutthe rising prominence of what he sees as the riseof "sexual McCarthyism" where everybody fromformer House Speaker Robert Living-stone (R-La.)to PBS's Teletubby Tinky-Winky will be "outed...
...incredibly eloquent speaker--everything we could have hoped for." he said. "He's perfect for the Hillel Men's Group. whose mission is to show that there's more to Judaism than just talking and knee-jerk liberalism...
...hard to miss the significance of Gore's constant declarations on the stump: "No one wants Dick Gephardt to be Speaker more than I do." And no one--with the possible exception of Gephardt--had logged more miles, raised more money or delivered more speeches than Gore. Though Gore was never particularly popular with his colleagues when he served on Capitol Hill, he now enjoys a substantial reservoir of goodwill and gratitude. And for the first time, when Clinton saluted Gore's "visionary leadership" during last month's State of the Union speech, Democrats actually cheered...