Will Marshall
Will Marshall
Will Marshall is one of the founders of the New Democrat movement, which aims to steer the US Democratic Party toward a more conservative orientation. Since its founding in 1989, he has been president of the Progressive Policy Institute, a think tank affiliated with the Democratic Leadership Council...
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It would be a grave mistake for the Republicans to assume they can replay the boll weevil strategy of the early 1980s, ... George W. Bush is not Ronald Reagan. He would not come in with a strong tail wind of public support behind him, and he would not have a working majority in Congress.
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Even a sitting president who has a vice president running for office doesn't have a great impact on the way the administration behaves. The goal of the next three years is to repair the president's popularity and resolve the situation in Iraq to some decent outcome. ... If Bush leaves office in January 2009 with Iraq in chaos, nothing else will matter.
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Privatization is at best in hibernation, and at worst awaiting a second Bush term, if there is one. But it's just not going to happen during 2002, which is an election year, and while we may be recovering from a recession, or still in one.
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I think George Bush cares about one thing more than anything else, and that's executive power.
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It's almost like Bush is running for reelection with peace and prosperity.
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You have this dry, parched field, and any spark can set it off. Any hope for a honeymoon for Bush is now dead.
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(A)s the opposition party, ... Democrats have a responsibility to hold the White House accountable for the painfully high price we've paid in Iraq, the thousands killed and wounded, and the billions of dollars spent. But they must do so in a way that makes it clear they are rooting for America to succeed in Iraq.
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who have set an example for responsible, progressive patriotism.
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The Gore campaign clearly wants to start setting the terms of the policy debate after several weeks of unflattering stories of disarray within the campaign,
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It looks like he's trying to move a little away from the high-concept ideas toward things he might actually be able to deliver on.
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Starbucks now spends more on health care than it does on coffee beans.
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Instead of innovation, he's offering the old ideological critique of Democrats.
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The main network that we've already established, ... would be sufficient even for some considerable growth. In the new growth areas, the types of facilities would be the same as we have done over the last 15 to 20 years, as far as the level of facilities.
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We've been telling everybody they'll have to come by the farm to have a cup of coffee.