Word: reforms
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...began in 1992 with a big-eared little billionaire who wanted to overhaul the engine of American politics. It was a one-man show, a man and his crazies, until 1998, when Jesse Ventura showed that Reform could be a brand for fiscal conservative/social libertarian types who felt that money and obfuscation had ruined Washington. Too bad Jesse was a free-trader - Perot invited in The Pitchfork to chase out The Body, and now Buchanan is poised to chase out Perot...
...Welcome to Pat's Reform party, which is slouching toward August 9 and Long Beach, when a Buchanan ally is expected to be installed as the convention's credentials committee chairman. That's the guy who decides which delegates sit in for the August 10-12 convention and which stand out in the cold, waving John Hagelin signs in their hands and mourning Jesse and Ross in their hearts. To Buchanan will go the spoiled...
...Reform party will be the loudspeaker of protectionism, nativism and the religious right. Buchanan, set to collect $12 million in federal funds as a reward for Perot's two consecutive over-5 percent showings in 1992 and 1996, will doubtless run an entertaining campaign, screaming to be let into the debates and slinging his witty brand of populist mud into the mainstream fray. He will pray to his big, intrusive God that George W. Bush chooses a pro-choice running mate, because with Nader working the unions, the only table scraps left are disaffected far-righties - and even those...
...least one area, reform of the state seems imminent: reduction of the presidential term from seven to five years. The idea has been gestating for decades, but France's three recent experiences with "cohabitation"--the awkward sharing of power between a President of one party and a Prime Minister of another--have persuaded Jospin and Chirac to push for a revision of the Fifth Republic's constitution. The proposed reform, which could be approved by referendum later this year, would make the presidential term coincide with that of the parliament. This would presumably reduce the likelihood of cohabitation, since...
...spend $339 billion over 10 years on Medicare --To add prescription-drug benefit to Medicare --To cut class sizes in schools --To recruit 1 million new teachers --To end drug-company patent extensions --To fight for "every woman in the land" in health-care-reform plan --To increase teachers' salaries...