Weblog Entry - 02/19/2002: interest-group despoti.    From Wordnik.com.  [thinking with my fingers] Reference

Weblog Entry - 02/19/2002: "interest-group despotism".    From Wordnik.com.  [thinking with my fingers] Reference

The economy became clogged with interest-group policies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The German Miracle: Another Look] Reference

Their survival is a triumph of interest-group politics over ideology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surviving The Guillotine] Reference

So Villaraigosa must live with the arithmetic of interest-group liberalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trickle-Down Misery in L.A.] Reference

Their fear of offending the party's interest-group orderlies ruled everything.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stripping Off The Straitjacket] Reference

As interest-group spending rises, public confidence in the judiciary declines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Justice for Sale] Reference

This is just another encounter with another interest group doing interest-group politics.    From Wordnik.com.  [A. Siegel: Will Continues Will-Ful Deceit] Reference

Nearly every holidaya morsel has been the object of an interest-group war or policy debate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Did The Pilgrims Have A Pac?] Reference

He fit into what a lot of Democrats, like Walter Mondale, still fit into: interest-group elitism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Populism and Elitism: Politics in the Age of Equality] Reference

They view government and politics purely as arenas for ideological and interest-group combat only.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » The Price of Discipline] Reference

A Christmas miracle, you might say, except that the magic of interest-group politics works 12 months a year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Orszag: “No One Should Be Surprised” By Administration Ag Subsidy Proposals] Reference

I don't know that I will be as interest-group oriented; I want to reach out to people, not just interest groups.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Senate Judiciary Committee Holds Day 2 of Ashcroft Confirmation Hearing - January 17, 2001] Reference

The higher lawlessness of civil disobedience was absorbed by the lower lawlessness of interest-group liberalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Civil Rights and the Conservative Movement] Reference

But their alternative has been corporate-friendly and interest-group friendly proposals that just drive up costs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Shireman: After Massachusetts, Hope Finally Has a Chance] Reference

In 1996 he (or maybe "a campaign aide") also indicated on an interest-group survey that he supports handgun bans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barack and Load] Reference

Racism is still there, but it is much more subtle and organic; it plays itself out as interest-group politics today.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pompadour With a Monkey Wrench] Reference

These three reforms will help, but will not solve the problem of direct interest-group attacks on judicial candidates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Justice for Sale] Reference

Voting Blocs, a group on interest-group politics, co-hosted by washingtonpost.com's Chris Cillizza and Jason Manning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Social Networking Features] Reference

Without such an agency, interest-group logrolling will continue to trump science and economics in major policy choices.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ethanol's Bottom Line] Reference

The debate over healthcare reform has long been weighed down by tired ideological bickering and interest-group politics.    From Wordnik.com.  [William George: Health Reform That Works for Labor and Industry] Reference

Voting Blocs, a group on interest-group politics, co-hosted by washingtonpost. com's Chris Cillizza and Jason Manning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Social Networking Features] Reference

Will it be the incumbent-protection and business interest-group machine that prevailed under the final years of Tom DeLay?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The GOP Opportunity] Reference

The question is whether the grinding gears of interest-group politics will chew up anyone who tries to get under the hood.    From Wordnik.com.  [CLINTON'S CHALLENGE] Reference

And they were both the cause and beneficiary of the great interest-group army that lobbied for ever more housing subsidies.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Mortgage Fable] Reference

She listened in angry silence while speakers lambasted the party as a bastion of inside-the-Beltway, interest-group toadies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Duel Of The Democrats] Reference

Mr. Nagareda says that interest-group politics might explain the suspicion of the plaintiffs 'bar toward a loser-pays system.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Debate Over Who Pays Fees When Litigants Mount Attacks] Reference

Much of the interest-group spending, by contrast, has been based on large contributions from well-heeled donors and corporations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outside spending upsharply for midterms] Reference

The more the public sector succumbs to interest-group capture, the more time, money and political conflict it takes to reform it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Contending with Paul Krugman] Reference

It's the attitude of power-addicted interest-group Democrats who would rather lose the election than lose their grip on the party.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mickey Kaus: Democrats Are on the Path to Doom -- I Want Off] Reference

But the scholarship is a wonderful example of how a law like this really gets made and how interest-group politics affects everything.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bill: How the Adventures of Clinton's National Service Bill Reveal What is] Reference

How this peripheral issue came to ensnarl the health-care debate offers a case study in the theory and practice of interest-group politics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Abortion’s New Battleground] Reference

Don't move New Hampshire into the background just to provide larger playing fields for political consultants and interest-group candidates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gary Hart: Where the Little Guy Can Win] Reference

At the same time, Publius did not believe (as some modern observers do) that the Constitution merely set the rules for interest-group struggle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Enlarged Republic—Then and Now] Reference

An important part of the subtext here, I think, is that interest-group opposition to a public option is considerably broader than most people realize.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Revenge of the Public Option] Reference

While the interest-group money has primarily helped Republicans, Democrats have proved better at raising money for the party itself and for individual candidates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outside spending upsharply for midterms] Reference

Obviously, the excise tax deal by which collectively bargaining health benefits get a special two-year exemption from the tax is a bit of a grubby interest-group compromise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Health Care Paranoia] Reference

One reason Democrats have benefited less from interest-group spending may be the party's - and President Obama's - message against the role of moneyed interests in Washington.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outside spending upsharply for midterms] Reference