Grover Norquist is an anti-tax evangelist whose special interest group, Americans for Tax Reform, has all but captured the tax and revenue policy apparatus of the Republican Party.
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Worse, for Mr Paulson, a brain drain at lower levels in the Treasury leaves the secretary without the sort of deep technocratic policy apparatus that Mr Rubin once enjoyed.
All of this political sniping from both sides is small compared to the powerful fact of the president putting black people at the top of the administration's foreign policy apparatus.
These sources offer Russia an opportunity for "financial breakout" -- a goal arguably even more coveted by the Russian security services and foreign policy apparatus than it is by the fledgling Russian financial community.
And until the current administration, the most elite circle of advisors to the most powerful man in the world, the foreign policy apparatus, might as well have had a "Whites Only" sign on the door.
Industrialists have complained for months that the bureaucratic and policy-making apparatus has been paralyzed as the government dealt with a series of political crises.
At worst, as in the case of Communist China, the liaisons are actively working to undermine and penetrate our intelligence apparatus, and influence policy-makers who rely upon it.
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Dealt a weak hand, Boehner managed to 99% outfox, on tax policy, a president who had the massive apparatus of the executive branch, the Senate majority, and a left-leaning national elite media whooping it up for a whopping tax increase.
Per the Constitution, the federal apparatus primarily pertains to matters of foreign policy.
The apparatus reportedly includes members of every US security, foreign policy and intelligence body.
Incredibly, the fact that this might still be an "important" objective of the old Soviet military-industrial apparatus is as absent from the thinking of senior Clinton Administration policy-makers as it was from their predecessors' during the Bush-Gorbachev years.
But here is the thing: The size of the takeover may well be its attraction, in respect of one aspect of public policy, but it looks likely to be its undoing, at the hands of another part of the state apparatus, the City regulator, the Financial Services Authority.
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