Word: enough
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...President Bush would tell failing schools that enough is enough: If you can't do the job, we'll give your federal dollars to parents to help them send their kids to a better school. A President Gore would keep trying: bring in a team of specialists, pump money into reform, and if all else fails, shut the place down and start over with a new principal and new teachers...
...teams to assist the state's 44 low-performing schools. Gore's national turnaround budget is $500 million a year, and he moves failing schools to the front of the line for funds for after-school programs and to cut class size, but even that may not be enough...
...measures wouldn't greatly increase the number of middle-class parents who can afford to send their kids to college, but rather would allow them to do so with greater ease. The credits aren't refundable, however, and wouldn't help the millions of workers who don't earn enough to owe income taxes (even though they pay hefty Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes...
...just that, to pick up John McCain's more austere economic plan instead, emphasize debt reduction and iron out the wrinkles in the tax plan. But Bush held fast because he believed he alone, not his royal mathematicians, had broken the code, concocted a proposal that was big enough to please his base and fair enough to satisfy the middle. Over time he got better at talking about it; he stopped confusing billion with trillion. By the closing weeks of the race he talked about it everywhere, even in schools, and with every bit as much theological certainty as when...
...general election? Partly because his base was still wobbling; he kept stalling at about 80 percent of registered Democrats, even as Republicans were more than 90 percent stapled to Bush by summer. Gore, a free trader, had only 45 percent of union households in June; Ralph Nader was attracting enough lefties and anti-globalists and environmentalists to tip states like Wisconsin and Oregon into Bush's column. Gore's advisers argued that they would have to rebuild the Democratic coalition bloc by bloc, first the night-shift waitresses, then the restless middle class, then finally make...