The political maxim of this story is that it is stating that instead of wasting your time being angry and trying to “get even” with others that you think have done you wrong, use your time wisely 4.”The purpose of the war room was not just to respond to Republican attacks... it was to respond to them fast, even before they were broadcasted or published, when the lead of the srory was still rolling around in the reporter’s mind...” This quote was spoken by George Stephanopoulos when he was working for Bill Clinton four years after November 8th, 1988 the defeat of Dukakis by Bush. It is basically stating that their main goal is to stop any attack on the reputation of the candidate
As the head of the National Restaurant Association, he challenged President Bill Clinton on healthcare at a television event. Cain publicly criticized First Lady Hillary Clinton's plans for healthcare reform. He thought the suggested reforms would have a negative impact on business. In 2004, Cain ran for a seat in Georgia's senate but failed. In August 2011, Cain came in fourth in the Iowa Straw Poll, beating Rick Perry and Mitt Romney.
Leave No Shot Unanswered - Stephanopoulos Learns His Lesson In 1988, George Stephanopoulos was a mid-level campaign aide to Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis. He saw his candidate’s 17-point lead over then Vice President George Bush plummet as week-after-week, Bush’s campaign attacked Dukakis as someone who gave dangerous prisoners weekend furloughs and refused to require the Pledge of Allegiance in schools. Bush painted Dukakis as a big spending, big taxing, and far left Massachusetts liberal. Week-after-week, Dukakis failed to respond to these attacks quickly and effectively. By the time November rolled around, Bush won by a sizable eight points.
This meant that the House of Lords could no longer veto money bills and could only delay public bills for up to two years. The House of Lords initially tried to reject this bill. The reigning monarch, George V threatened to create sufficient Liberal peers to overcome the present Conservative majority if the bill was not passed however. The House of Lords scared of losing their Conservative
One example appears for you. Somebody ... | Wanted ... | But ... | So ... | President Abraham Lincoln | the nation to heal as quickly as possible from the Civil War and planned to reunify the nation quickly | he was assassinated in 1865 only days after Robert E. Lee’s surrender | plans for Reconstruction were taken over by Vice President Andrew Johnson, who became president after Lincoln’s death | President Andrew Johnson | The reconstruction act of 1867 which undo everything Johnson completed and dismissed Stanton once brought them impeachment charges against Johnson. | He was exasperated towards the radical republicans who actually thought he was too sympathetic. | Which started The congress to begin passing bills that would amend the reconstruction polices. | Radical Republicans | They control the south to help prevent them from returning to their war ways.
EPA Political Implications The EPA has both critics and supporter in the political arena. Most Republican Presidential Candidates and many leading congressional Republicans have bitterly condemned the EPA as creating too much regulation. Although the Republican primary season has passed, speeches by former candidates exhibit the hostility to perceived over regulation by the EPA. The rest of the 2012 Republican presidential field is broadly in agreement with Michèle Bachmann's opinions. Throughout her campaign, Representative Bachmann explained even further than an implicit threat to abolish the EPA by making the somewhat self-contradictory promise to a crowd on August 8, 2011: "I guarantee you the EPA will have doors locked and lights turned
The film, “Wag the Dog” shows an extreme example of power of the media to influence or distract the public; In this case, it is to distract the public from a Presidential sex scandal. Unfortunately, this scandal could not have come at a worse time for the President; approximately two weeks before the Presidential election starts. So to try to mitigate the damage to the President’s ratings, an aide (Winifred Ames) recruits a ‘spin doctor’ to help; a character by the name of Conrad Bream. It is determined that the best distraction would be to start a war; but he really doesn’t want a real war. It is interesting to note that this film almost paralleled to a point, the real life scandal of President Clinton and his threats of military action against Iraq; the film started production before the Lewinsky scandal, but opened up after it happened.
With all of the debate, rewriting, and re-proposing it can also be a very timely process. First off, a bill can be proposed into either house of Congress. A majority of bills come from the executive branch, but many other bills come from interest groups and political party organizations. A lot of bills contain pork, or earmarks. Earmarks are when special funding is added to a bill, even though it generally has very little to do with it.
Great Reform Act 1832 This was a response to many years of people criticising the electoral system as unfair. For example, there were constituencies with only a handful of voters that elected two MPs to Parliament. In these rotten boroughs, with few voters and no secret ballot, it was easy for candidates to buy votes. Yet towns like Manchester that had grown during the previous 80 years had no MPs to represent them. In 1831, the House of Commons passed a Reform Bill, but the House of Lords, dominated by Tories, defeated it.
Ning Lee Prof. Sue Vosper Contemporary British Politics 20 February 2011 The House of Lords: Strengths and Shortcomings On 17th February 2011, the House of Lords abandoned weeks of stubborn resistance to the bill introducing a referendum on the alternative vote (AV) for Members of Parliament (MPs). The peers voted by 221 to 153 to abandon insistence that the referendum be deemed only advisory unless there was a turnout of more than 40% (Wintour). Prior to this day, a parliamentary ping-pong had ensued following the Commons’ defeat by the Lords. While the Lords ultimately gave in, this situation nonetheless demonstrates the Lords’ considerable power over legislation in the United Kingdom. Scholars and academics are divided over whether the House of Lords is effective in performing its functions.