Word: overreaching
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...Still, Jeb's penchant for ideological overreach - especially regarding his obsession with shrinking government - has often backfired. While the state's threadbare child welfare agency is rife with neglect and malfeasance, critics complain that he has handed out millions of dollars in unorthodox tax breaks to companies that donate to private schools. Jeb, a morally conservative Roman Catholic, may eschew his brother's work habits, but he shares his Manichean world view - evidenced last year during his polarizing crusade to keep Terri Schiavo alive...
...Some Republicans have been complaining about Presidential overreach for some time. House Republican Heather Wilson objected directly to the President earlier in the year about the National Security Agency's domestic eavesdropping program, and Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania has held hearings on NSA eavesdropping and detention of American citizens. Now, however, it appears Congressional leaders are getting in on the act. After all, there's nothing like an immediate threat to focus the mind...
...more fundamental problem is what aviation security lawyers deride as the government?s "imperial overreach." Prosecutors are arguing that if Moussaoui had come clean with FBI agents interrogating him before 9/11, airport security could have been beefed up to foil the hijackers. In other words, they are claiming that he should be put to death because of his inactions rather than his actions. "It?s enough of a stretch to get juries to convict people who drive getaway cars in a murder of conspiracy," says one government security lawyer not involved in the case. "But these prosecutors think Moussaoui should...
...broadens the criteria that determine who may be prosecuted for obstruction of justice. Still, says Todd Jones, a corporate litigator at the Atlanta law firm Powell Goldstein, the SEC and the Justice Department are likely to be more cautious about pursuing such cases now, having been warned against prosecutorial overreach. One prominent white-collar litigant, former financier Frank Quattrone, above left, is appealing his conviction on similar grounds and has argued that he did not mean to commit a crime when he had documents destroyed...
...Clinton is a judicious hawk on foreign policy and has learned her lessons on domestic-policy overreach. No less an expert than Newt Gingrich says, "Hillary has become one of the very few people who know what to do about health care." Still, she has some very real political limitations. She has a clenched, wary public presence, which won't work well in an electorate that prizes aw-shucks informality; she isn't a particularly warm or eloquent speaker, especially in front of large audiences. Any woman running for President will face a toughness conundrum: she will constantly have...