Word: taxingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quick check with Russert reveals that he offered Gingrich the entire hour of Meet the Press the Sunday before the election to discuss--you guessed it--Social Security, along with the space program, tax cuts, the budget and education. Gingrich declined. In truth, Gingrich had no gripe with the media over its Monica obsession, which allowed him to stoke it quietly behind the scenes. What truly concerned him was that the press's eye had wandered since Clinton's Aug. 17 confession. Too many shows were going off-topic, too many talking heads exclaiming over Mark McGwire and showing boredom...
...grasp at scapegoats when, in the blink of an eye, the discussion moves from "Can Clinton Survive?" to whether you can? At the time the intern story broke in January, Gingrich was lost in an issue-free wilderness: the balanced budget and welfare reform had been co-opted, and tax cuts were a diminishing dream. Gingrich looked to Monica as his deliverance from having to come up with a new, new Republican revolution. Oh, the eager, summer-in-Washington look of her, the goofy beret, those chubby cheeks. And a presidential embrace was even captured on videotape! At last...
...listen only" conference call with members. This time Newt talked a lot, but he made no sense. He blamed the election on the unions, on black turnout driven by scare-tactic radio ads, on the fact that the Senate had failed to take up the House's $80 billion tax cut, and of course on the media for hyping the Monica scandal and blotting out the Republican message. Said one member who listened in: "It was very lame and not credible. He just doesn't get it. He's the problem. I don't see how you get over this...
...Bush, education has been a way to establish centrist credentials--this tax-cutting, small-government conservative likes to boast that he has increased state education spending by $4.7 billion, or 31% (and he exaggerates the figure, a very unconservative thing to do). It's all part of navigating a tricky course down the right side of the political center. In 1997, when he pushed through new curriculum standards, he angered both the right and the left: first rejecting the initial effort as being too full of "mushy" liberal pedagogy, then rejecting the arguments of the religious right that the revised...
...Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors for former President Reagan from 1982-1984, Feldstein oversaw significant tax cuts...