Word: watchdogging
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Behind all these ads is the assumption, fostered by the constant spin cycle, that the candidate who makes an attack is himself sleazy or desperate. Certainly, misleading negative ads do a disservice; so do misleading positive ads. But ad watchdog Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, says this year's attacks have been, comparatively, a model of accuracy. "There have been some small inaccuracies on each side, and some mid-level distortions," she says, "but the press has been fairly vigilant about going after them, and then the campaign gets...
...accessibility of the short-list of presidential candidates and search committee members to interested student groups. Versions of the petition were approved by the Undergraduate Council (UC), Phillips Brooks House and the Harvard-Radcliffe Democrats. The petition was authored by the Committee on University Practices (COUP), a watchdog group that was an agitator throughout the search process...
...bureaucrats" is a partisan guess in an unreleased report by the Republican staff of the Senate Budget Committee. His biggest-spender-since-L.B.J. charge is more substantive. It is based on analysis by Carol Cox Wait of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a bipartisan watchdog group. Wait compared the inflation-adjusted costs of various programs over the past 35 years to arrive at her conclusions. She concluded what she did about Gore, but she also concluded this: Bush's own spending plan would amount to the second largest increase since L.B.J...
Despite his single-digit poll numbers, Nader expressed great hope that his campaign will make the Green Party a "daily watchdog" of the two major parties which will "move to victory in the coming elections...
...With the plan almost surely still being written, Bush still has an opportunity to leaven his outlook a little. Include something convincing about cleaner air, just to have a response that doesn't turn Big Business into its own watchdog. But the fighters' stances are pretty much set. Gore will go environmental at least occasionally, but his main defense will be the one Democrats have grown so skilled at deploying against the GOP: Hey, we're just trying to help you heat your homes and drive your cars. Is that so wrong? Bush and Cheney will try to find...