Word: taxingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Democrats another issue for 2000." When it comes to touchy-feely stuff like Grandma and her heart pills, Clinton has it all over them -- and they know it. With that House majority looking thinner than ever, Republicans -- who would like to give back a lot of the surplus in tax cuts -- have learned that when they try to shout Clinton down, they lose. Kick up a little fuss and hammer out a deal, and they can save the larger argument (solvency) for a less formidable opponent (Al Gore) or a fellow traveler (George...
Gore never mentioned Bush's name but mocked the politics of "eloquent words" and "pretty rhetoric." To play up the contrast, he left behind everywhere a blizzard of policy proposals--delving into the fine print of the tax code to propose new breaks for research, and advocating expansion of the family-leave law to cover parent-teacher conferences. But all the frolicking with Tipper and the five-point plans could not match the week's unscripted windfall from the House floor. This week Republicans handed Gore a break, but for his campaign to succeed, he may have to figure...
...that translates into a politics of bounty, the priorities of which the President wants to be the first to define. The new money, he said, would first be used to save Social Security by permitting Social Security taxes to be allocated "for Social Security, period," rather than being needed to help balance the budget. The surplus, said the President, would next be used to strengthen Medicare and to fund his prescription drug benefit plan, details of which leaked out over the weekend before the official announcement on Tuesday. And lastly -- in a signal to both Republicans and Democrats to come...
...announced on Wednesday, gives everyone a little something to go home with: Starr got Hubbell to plead guilty to one felony count of lying about the failed Castle Grande land deal while he was a lawyer at the Rose Law Firm in Arkansas, and also one misdemeanor count involving tax evasion. Hubbell got the prosecutors to agree to no jail time. And the Clintons -- particularly Hillary Clinton, who was a partner at the Rose Law Firm and whose name has come up in connection with Castle Grande -- will get no further embarrassments out of the case...
CHRISTIAN COALITION Denied tax-exempt status owing to political activity. Time to render unto Caesar what is Caesar...