Word: statesmanship
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...STATESMANSHIP get the formalities right; never mind about the moralities," Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson declared...
...sense this has been a month of civics lessons, which, when studied together, confirm the deepest anxieties of the most disheartened voters. It | began with the budget battle, a bloody, ugly brawl that left no winners and many scars. All the boasts about statesmanship and responsibility could not hide the fact that few hard decisions were made by either the White House or the Congress. Even the handful of officials with the best intentions and purest hearts could not find a way to make policy out of principle. And even if they had, there is no certainty that voters would...
...firm rhetoric, fluently delivered after four rehearsals and some coaching from image maven Roger Ailes, radiated statesmanship. A compromise, he maintained, was needed not only for the country's economic health but also to permit the U.S. "to function effectively as a great power abroad" -- a potent argument at a time when 100,000 U.S. soldiers are in harm's way in Saudi Arabia. If the negotiations stopped, Bush said, he would demand a decisive vote by Sept. 28 on a comprehensive Administration package. If that failed, he warned, the Gramm-Rudman sequester would ravage public services...
...time for statesmanship has come. This week the talks will resume in the less than luxurious setting of Andrews Air Force Base, outside Washington. Away from the press and lobbyists, White House and congressional leaders will attempt to fashion an agreement before the Oct. 1 deadline set by the Gramm- Rudman-Hollings Act. If they fail, $100 billion in across-the-board spending cuts -- the so-called sequester -- will go into effect, with $25 billion coming out of military spending and the rest from such activities as prosecuting drug kingpins, closing veterans' hospitals and suspending student loans...
...pledge he should never have made, since it has hamstrung economic policy throughout his presidency. Republican candidates screamed in fear that they had lost a potentially crucial issue for the fall congressional elections. Democratic congressional leaders kept a promise not to gloat; they gravely commended the President's statesmanship. But lower-ranking Democrats could not hide their glee that at last they could silence G.O.P. gibes that they belong to the high-tax party...