Word: act
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...praised Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) for discouraging Democrats from attempting to pass bills when the party temporarily holds a Senate majority between Jan. 3, when the new congress takes office, and Jan. 20, when the president is inaugurated. Kerry noted that the Democrats decided to act like "statespeople." There's a word that hasn't been needed in the past month. Webster's Dictionary defines "statesman" in part as "one who exercises leadership wisely and without narrow partisanship in the general interest." Could there possibly be any better to term to describe how the two presidential...
What happened to the idea that a president should be our country's most dignified statesperson? Is this how George Washington, the sacred idol who first defined the presidency, would act if he were one of the candidates? The presidency should be filled by the best and the brightest America has to offer, not by the most popular member of the two major political parties. Where have all the statespeople gone...
Bush and Gore have shown that, like their most ardent supporters, they only know how to act as partisans. One acts like a nave little kid who thinks that he can win the election if he just starts moving in to the White House right now--as if the presidency was just a glorified game of "king of the hill." The other appears like the sorest of losers who won't stop crying until he gets his way. Next time, how about we vote for someone whose love for the country exceeds his or her ambition to win the presidency...
...ongoing "contest" except muddy it up a bit is just another fly on his legal windshield. "There's no reason this needs to delay things," said Boies. He was slightly less optimistic after Sauls' clean-sweep-for-Bush decision Monday afternoon, but still thinks the Florida Supremes can "act expeditiously" to save Gore in time...
Will the Florida legislature step in? It's likely, but not a foregone conclusion. House Speaker Tom Feeney says "the House is prepared to act" and order up a special session to mull naming a slate of electors if Al Gore's contest runs long in the courts. His counterpart, Senate President John McKay, says "the Senate will not be rushed to judgment... We have only one chance to get things right...