Word: turncoat
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...supporters) runs deep. Finding common allies to smooth things over, like Illinois Congressman Rahm Emanuel, is essential. On the Republican side, Scott McClellan's book has infuriated many Republicans but has flustered them as well: If you can't trust a longtime Bushie like Scott not to be a turncoat, whom can you trust? The game of leisure chicken begins: Which candidate will take an extended vacation first? Preconvention R&R is a campaign standard, but every day on the beach is a day away from a battleground state. McCain has been enjoying the luxurious schedule of the unopposed since...
...pass the immigration bill that conservatives have strenuously opposed for the past year. It is also likely that he will enjoy Democratic support for expanding his profligate Medicare prescription drug bill. Given the degree of responsibility he holds for the party’s current political state, his new turncoat attitude is completely outrageous. Republicans must make it clear to President Bush that if he wants an ounce of support during Democratic hearings on the Iraq war, he must abandon these plans, regardless of his personal beliefs. President Bush represents the outgoing Republican Party and is trying to salvage...
...protect witnesses after they have testified. The Baltimore witness-assistance program used to be called witness protection, but with a shoestring budget and local motels doubling as witness safe houses, officials realized they couldn't always live up to the protection promise. Unlike the federal witness-protection program for turncoat mobsters and cocaine kingpins, there is no reconstructive surgery, no house with a pool in suburban Phoenix. Baltimore authorities had to stretch their $400,000 annual budget in 2005 to accommodate 184 families in hiding--a few with as many as 11 members. Although some are relocated near family...
Television commercials have lambasted the Congressman as a Washington insider not to be trusted, a turncoat conservative who voted for "Tip O'Neill's budget," the surrender of the Panama Canal and a national holiday commemorating Martin Luther King's birthday. The most damaging blow, however, may be Funderburk's recent contention that Broyhill wants to set up two nuclear-waste sites in the state. Actually, Broyhill introduced legislation to establish a waste site in the West; the bill was later amended in the Senate to set up a second site, not necessarily in North Carolina...
...screened through numerous databases, checked for, among other things, mental-health problems, criminal records and questionable behavior in previous jobs. The NRC's confidence in its "insider mitigation program" is so high that the DBT specifically rules out the need to defend against an "active violent insider"--a turncoat employee willing to shoot and kill fellow workers. The DBT does consider the possibility of a single, nonviolent insider working with the terrorists...