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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."
"Few See How Clinton Effort Will Bring Results," scoffed the New York Times . Pundits theorized that Clinton is triangulating back to the left after tacking to the right on welfare reform and the budget deal.
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.
Garry Wills wrote in the New York Review of Books a few years ago that "tacking"--back and forth, between left and right--was an honorable way of getting from the status quo to a new philosophy and a new vision.
Inflating him was as simple as tacking the augmentative suffixes -one or -oni --as in Giacomoni --to the root name or its variation to get big James.