He is more than happy to undermine British sovereignty and democracy, as long as it is corporate interests who are the beneficiaries.
After Michael Portillo confirmed in both word and deed what most people already suspected that he is quite happy to undermine Mr Duncan Smith whenever the opportunity arises, but he no longer has the stomach to be a serious player Mr Clarke was the only figure left around which potential rebels could easily coalesce.
But you do not have to like him to wonder why Hull would not want to keep the coach who had plotted the club's greatest day in two decades, or would apparently be happy to undermine him and therefore the team's prospects of building on that cup success in 2006.
It is the faintest of praise for the faintest of gestures – a politician putting her convenient brand on an issue that already threatened to be inevitable – and it is one Haley herself was happy to undermine even as she was making it.
Because, like a cancer that has been reduced but not eradicated by chemotherapy, the right-wing always returns, happy to undermine the foundations of our democracy to get its way, until it sucks all the life out of the body politic.
The conclusion is lovely, too: its combination of magic, catharsis and sentimentality is pitched perfectly, without overpromising happy endings or undermining the emotional realities of what's gone before.
It was perhaps his happy readiness to undermine anything too serious with a joke that once led me to suggest that we cut down on our drinking during our next bout of academic collaboration.
The portrait of the happy childhood is undermined by what we know of its sequel: it's like giving a restaurant a fabulous review and casually letting it drop that the kitchen is infested with rats.
Happy people's happiness gets undermined and, tragically, sad people's sadness gets termed acceptable.
He argued that the administration's penchant for happy talk is seriously undermining popular support for the war; he also presented a detailed plan for strengthening America's position in Iraq.The electable bitThese two potential un-Hillaries have obvious weaknesses.
