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...group used the same tactic in passing the living wage bill...
Seton says the issue of how to deal with the administration cuts right to the heart of the progressive-conservative divide. Confronting the administration is necessarily a progressive tactic, Seton says, while working for change within the current system is a conservative...
...have been amateurish. When the Chicago native proclaimed herself a closet Yankees fan, when the Methodist disclosed her Jewish roots, when the advocate for poor children came out in favor of milk price supports--these moves made her seem craven, ham-fisted. When the progressive copied her husband's tactic of using party soft money to finance early TV spots, she looked no better than he. And when Bill Clinton granted clemency to a group of Puerto Rican terrorists--a move that some of Hillary's key Latino backers had lobbied for--she was silent at first, then condemned...
Ought implies can. Although we agree that the Republican tactic of holding world leadership hostage to abortion politics is distasteful, the staff is foolish to criticize President Clinton for his failure to reach a deal that has no strings attached--a pipe dream in the current Congress...
...WHAT THEY WANTED] --LENDERS say consumers have abused the system, using bankruptcy as a debt-avoidance tactic. The stigma is gone...