Word: hammer
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DELAY Bush's worst nightmare may not be the Democrats. There's an old saying on Capitol Hill: your worst enemies are often your friends. Bush learned why on Dec. 6, when Tom DeLay, the former exterminator from Texas who is known as "the Hammer," summoned reporters to his office to announce that G.O.P. leaders planned to "act the same way we have been"--ramming through bills without Democratic support. His words reminded Bush and his advisers of the "potential challenge" DeLay poses, says a Republican Congressman close to Bush. "He is ideologically to the right of Bush...
...Sharon will hammer Barak on the breakdown of the peace process, accusing him of dangerous naïveté and of being an amateurish negotiator. Any new peace agreement that Barak manages to cobble together before President Clinton leaves the White House will be pooh-poohed by the hawkish former general, who'll counsel caution and insist on slowing things down...
...they'll blame Sharon for the Lebanon war, which Barak ended last June in a move that was welcomed by Israelis across partisan lines. And they'll charge that the methods that have earned Sharon the nickname "The Bulldozer" are unlikely to bring peace. But Sharon's team will hammer Barak on the breakdown of the peace process, accusing him of dangerous naïveté and of being an amateurish negotiator. Any new peace agreement that Barak manages to cobble together before President Clinton leaves the White House will be poo-pooed by Sharon, who'll counsel caution...
...told them. "I don't want to be bothered." A bushelful of memos had piled up on his desk, the fruit of a frantic political week of Senate power struggles framed inside the titanic power struggle for the White House. Leahy figured the Florida Supreme Court would bring the hammer down on Al Gore's final appeal and didn't care to watch. So he glared when an aide came in just after 4 p.m. "I think you may want to hear what the court just did," the aide told him. "Well, is it all over?" Leahy asked...
...Chief Justice Rehnquist is considered a long shot for the Democrats, but he is a staunch supporter of state autonomy - a cause generally championed by conservatives - which could bode well for upholding the Florida Supreme Court's decision. If Gore lawyer David Boies can hammer home a states' rights argument, the Chief Justice could conceivably abandon his previous vote. Another consideration for Rehnquist: This decision will likely define his term as Chief Justice. The political considerations are staggering; no Court has ever played such an active role in determining the presidency before, so Rehnquist in particular may exercise extra caution...