Word: obstructionist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...relishing the whole matter, watching Helms get into potentially deep water with accusations against a minority and knowing that it can always bypass the nomination process using a "recess appointment" when Congress takes a break next month. "The White House is trying to make the Republicans look inflexible and obstructionist," says Dickerson...
...reform bills. As of late last night, several dangerous amendments to the House bill had been killed, and the bill appeared to be headed towards passage. As unregulated donations continue to flow into party coffers for the 2000 elections, it is vital that the members of Congress resist the obstructionist tactics of the GOP leadership and prevent the political process from becoming a system of legalized bribery...
...news to Clinton, who is hungry for a foreign policy triumph. Barak is also eager for a fast peace, before a White House change of guard disrupts Washington's ability to facilitate new deals. Throughout the trip, both sides insisted that Barak's election signaled a departure from the obstructionist policies of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. After the first meeting of Clinton and Barak, the President told aides Barak was a leader "who will be scrupulous in terms of living up to his obligations." The unspoken appendix: "unlike Netanyahu...
...Canal, which he ordered built in 1903, after what he called "three centuries of conversation." If a convenient revolution had to be fomented in Colombia (in order to facilitate the independence of Panama province and allow construction to proceed p.d.q.), well, that was Bogota's bad luck for being obstructionist and good fortune for the rest of world commerce. Being a historian, T.R. never tired of pointing out that his Panamanian revolution had been merely the 53rd anti-Colombian insurrection in as many years, but he was less successful in arguing that it was accomplished within the bounds of international...
...impatient should consider this: Dayton is starting to work. And Clinton deserves credit. Reporting from the region, TIME's Alexandra Stiglmayer says that over the last five months the U.S. has dragged NATO from its passive role into a boldly interventionist one -- arresting war criminals, removing obstructionist police chiefs, and paralyzing hostile TV networks. The results are happy: refugees have at last started returning to their homes, and peace-minded politicians on all three sides have begun to emerge. Meanwhile, the U.S. is still without a combat casualty...