Word: righting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...years; he confronted a sitting Vice President with the wind at his back and maintained a nearly unbroken lead for more than a year, even though more people agreed with the other guy's positions. He took on the suicide wing of his party, which would rather be right than win, and made them roll over and play dead, threw the invisibility cloak over the congressional wing of his party and made them disappear. Stripped of every winning Republican issue--the cold war, crime, the economy--he proceeded to run on Democratic ones--education, health care, Social Security. Lampooned...
...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 and in style tends to be more partisan. They acknowledge that, and the fact that he has a nice following. He's the most effective leader in Congress on the nuts and bolts. You want him on your team." Austin hopes DeLay will fall into line behind Bush...
...Senate. Bush allies will try to insert a so-called paycheck-protection provision into the bill, an anti-union poison pill that would strip it of needed Democratic support. But if they fail and it lands on Bush's desk, he must either sign it--detonating his right wing--or veto it, a disastrous way to introduce himself to Americans...
...George W. Bush doesn't want to talk about it right now, but it's such a freebie for legislators - in a new year where everybody's looking for a sure thing - that it'll at least get talked about...
...they may have a point. We require our voters to make their way to polling places - or make some other arrangements - and that is arguably a good thing. The giddy thrill of democracy, of community, is palpable in those Election Day lines. But those seeking the right to vote shouldn't be denied it by intimidation or bureaucratic incompetence, and it's the government's responsibility to pass those two tests. The 2000 record is spotty on that score...