Word: unseat
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...unseat the incumbent, Benzan is taking an aggressive stance, accusing Thompson of negligence in office...
Washington's single-minded obsession with Saddam has provoked some allies to think about a rift in the making potentially graver than the latest hubbub. Even in Kuwait, where eagerness to unseat Saddam runs high, officials wonder if the U.S. is dangerously ignoring the region's other and perhaps greater threat: Iran. "Seventy percent of Kuwaitis just want to get rid of Saddam," says Mohammed al-Qadiri, a Kuwaiti businessman and former government official. "But the rest worry that if he goes, Iran will step in, and that, my friend, is real trouble." Some of Kuwait's top leaders have...
...issue the Republicans had used successfully over the past four presidential elections. Dole's weakness was not that he was unpopular--his favorability rating stayed in the mid-to-upper 50s throughout the fall; it was that he lacked the issues and the rationale needed for a challenger to unseat an incumbent President during good economic times...
...when both worked for Arkansas Senator William Fulbright. Twelve years later, after losing his first re-election bid for Governor, Clinton found refuge in Lindsey's law firm and plotted a comeback. When Clinton launched his unlikely bid to unseat George Bush in 1991, Lindsey was his only traveling companion, and the two trekked anonymously through airports, carrying their own bags. Once in the White House, Clinton put him in charge of personnel, but his range has always been unlimited...
...ever tried to run the Senate and unseat a Democrat in the White House. Dole's advisers remain deeply divided over the wisdom of doing that, as well as over many other issues. The main one is whether to cut a budget-balancing deal with Bill Clinton next month or make it the centerpiece of the fall campaign. At a meeting last week, campaign manager Scott Reed and Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour argued forcefully to forgo any agreement with Clinton this year and urged Republicans to campaign hard against the President's spending habits in the fall...