Word: overreaching
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...Kennedy School’s Dubai initiative, the possibility of outright attack is “fairly high.” “With each country being tough on the other side, showing a growling, uncompromising face, there is a great chance that either side will overreach,” he said. But Ray Takeyh, a senior fellow on the Council of Foreign Relations, said that Congressional skepticism, President Bush’s low popularity, and international opposition would restrain American aggression. “The chances of attack are almost nonexistent,” he said. Moderated...
...Politically, however, it's hard to argue with a winning strategy. The ACLU's three races fly in the face of Harry Reid's victorious approach throughout the 109th Congress: hammer the President in every public forum on Iraq and executive overreach, but never, ever get on the wrong side of tough national security policies. Echoing the dominant centrist approach, California's Dianne Feinstein, who sits on both the intelligence and judiciary committees, told me yesterday she thinks "it is right to give the government reasonable leeway to protect Americans," while "having hearings and oversight is also helpful in clearing...
...Richo, Culver City's information-technology director. Users must agree to "limited" Internet access and waive First Amendment claims arising from the city's decision to block sites. Civil-liberties groups are worried that governments may still be practicing content-based discrimination, a First Amendment violation, since filters often overreach and block perfectly legal material. "I think the Supreme Court would look skeptically at this approach," says John Morris, staff counsel at the Center for Democracy and Technology...
...that Congress doesn't just pass things in a vacuum. After 9/11, both parties felt a need to take steps to protect the country, leading to passage of the Patriot Act, creation of the Homeland Security Department and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Also Presidents tend to overreach more when one party controls both the executive and legislative branches of government. Think of President Clinton's failed campaign to create universal health care in 1993 and President Bush's brief flirtation with radically restructuring Social Security in 2005; in both cases the Senate derailed legislation with the threat...
Will the Democrats behave any differently if they retake Congress in November? Some would undoubtedly try to use their majority power to exact revenge for Republican overreach. And history has shown them to be just as capable of the type of ideological drift that is tearing at the G.O.P...