Word: blame
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...years, and he was emboldened to escalate his demands to seven years. The government was kept running only through a series of continuing resolutions, and Gingrich and Clinton began to engage in an elaborate game of chicken. There was a real possibility of a serious government shutdown, and the blame could have gone either...
...both 1824 and 1876, the popular-vote winner was deprived of the presidency. But in neither case was the Electoral College to blame. The House of Representatives denied the presidency to Jackson, and the rigged electoral commission denied the presidency to Tilden...
...triumphs. Before impeachment, Hillary was one of the more unpopular First Ladies. She bungled the Administration's biggest domestic project--health care--after wresting it from Gore's portfolio. Her fingerprints were everywhere, especially on the scandals (from Whitewater to Travelgate). In every crisis, her reflexive response was to blame others, rail against enemies and stonewall, unless called before a grand jury, at which point she would be overcome by short- and long-term memory loss. It wasn't until the President found himself under siege that her popularity took off. By the end of impeachment, she realized that, Sally...
...would blame the people of Florida if they were starting to get a little snippy, as Al Gore might put it. First they provided--and endured--the superabundant drama of Elian Gonzalez. Now all the frustrations of one of the closest elections in American history have made a landing on Palm Beach. Florida is the center of a struggle over the operations of American democracy at every level, from the wisdom of the Electoral College to the arrangement of punch holes on a paper ballot. Fidel Castro's Foreign Minister, Felipe Perez Roque, even suggested last week that...
...past, as always, remains contested: Washington still wants Vietnam to account for the approximately 2,000 U.S. personnel still listed as missing in action, and the Vietnamese would like some sort of apology for a war that killed some 3 million of their people, and which they blame entirely on the U.S. But neither side is inclined to allow the past to deny the possibilities of the present and the future: the President will raise the issue of accounting for the MIAs, but won't let that block the relationship; rather than an apology, the Vietnamese will press for concrete...