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Now that Clinton staff attorney Lanny Breuer is invoking executive privilege to keep from having a Starr grand jury sit-down, the WP usefully documents the White House's legal tacking by quoting White House counsel Charles Ruff's comments from two months ago: "We have no intention of asserting the privilege, executive privilege, in any situation that I'm aware of."
True enough (I concede in advance), there aren't many pols out there who actually live up to this standard-but let's not give the vital center a bad name by pretending that it's no more than dishonest tacking.
I see candidates--some, anyway--really trying to stake out new middle ground; you see tacking and opportunistic positioning.
Earmarking, the process of tacking pork-heavy provisions to spending bills, is on the rise in Washington, according to the Post.
They were at least in part the reaction of a decent and thwarted person tacking out in search of love and eminence.