Who thinks that the battle over Joe Lieberman's bill that declared the Iranian Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization was anything but election maneuvering?
Exit timing and U.S. election maneuvering stand at the center of this month's Iraq drama, with testimony due next week from Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker, and several reports coming in.
"From now on violence will follow the politics," said a senior Western official who is following the pre-election maneuvering.
So should we count for them?" Italians, accustomed to inconclusive votes and post-election maneuvering, focused their doubts on all the court action.
Washington has denounced pre-election maneuvering by Mr. Milosevic, who has been indicted by a United Nations court for war crimes allegedly committed by his forces in Kosovo last year.
The clash over taxes and government spending are defining the early stages of the post-election maneuvering in Washington and seem likely to remain in the forefront as the 2012 presidential campaign heats up next year.
Currently, workers are often forced to go through National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) elections, maneuvering through a gauntlet of threats, firings and one-on-one pressure meetings, courtesy of their boss and outside anti-union consultants.
He considered many of his former friends (including Senator Thomas F. Bayard of Delaware) enemies now for their support of the Electoral Commission, and sought to keep the "fraud of '76" in the spotlight and burnish his own future candidacy by having his congressional allies investigate the events of the post-election maneuvering.
Critics saw these actions as mere election-year maneuvering.
But when Harry Reid of Nevada became Senate majority leader after the 2006 elections, he maneuvered the project to a near-standstill, and Mr. Obama, campaigning in 2008, promised to shelve it if elected.
The very next day, however, a House vote cast doubt over the prospects for passage of COMPETES reauthorization, and the following week, the bill was defeated over Republicans concerns about spending and partisan election-year maneuvering involving the irrelevant issue of pornography.
