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| February 1, 1993 |
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(Vol. Six; No. 3) |
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Inauguration Ratherisms "Mr. Clinton was about as
relaxed as a pound of liver." "If an American inauguration
can't bring a lump to your throat and a tear to your eye, if you don't feel as
corny as Kansas in August, maybe you need a jump-start and some
vitamins."
In and Out of the Loops Bush Makes Public Iran-Contra Diary
Entries Suggest He Did Not Know Details of Scandal Diary says Bush Knew 'Details' of
Iran Arms Deal Diary: Bush in loop on arms, not
Contras Excerpts reaffirm Bush claim
Clinton the Messiah "Roger [Clinton]'s life is in
some ways the story of any younger sibling clobbered by the spectacular
success of the one who came before. The presidential brother syndrome. If your
brother is Christ, you have a choice: become a disciple, or become an anti-christ,
or find yourself caught somewhere between the two." "The Clinton campaign was guided
throughout by a quiet messianism. It was more than just a holy war against the
pinched, divisive brand of conservatism that had overtaken the Republicans in
recent years; there was also a confluence of longstanding aspirations and
frustrations -- Democrats, baby boomers, `new ideas' types all were hoping
that their moment had finally come, that it was time to reclaim the idealism
of the Kennedy years."
Shalala Reception Shalala, Espy Received Warmly;
Christopher Still Coasting on Hill Shalala omissions irritate Moynihan
Most Important Inauguration of Our Lives? "In 1978, Newsweek
introduced its readers to a young man with a dream. On Friday, Newsweek will
be the only newsweekly to mark the culmination of that dream, with a special
newsstand issue on his inauguration. An issue that's sure to be a collector's
item because it covers the most important inauguration of our life-time."
Chelseagate Crystallized "Perhaps this tempest reflects
the extreme jitters of the public- school community after 12 years of
government neglect." "Well, the fact is 12-year-olds
are not meant to be symbols of anything, unless it's the difficulties of
approaching adolescence....Well, now the parental decision has been made, and
the public can make its judgment. And then perhaps we should all just drop the
subject and let a 12-year-old, who's leaving friends behind to move into a big
house in a strange city, get on with life -- with becoming a teenager."
Reliving Watergate "It is often said that, during
Watergate, the system worked. But in dealing with its spiritual stepchild --
Iran-Contra and the continuing constitutional criminality of the Reagan-Bush
years -- it is now painfully apparent that the system has failed....The
escalating criminality of the Bush-Reagan era -- in which the
breaking-and-entering of Bill Clinton's passport records has become
emblematic, just as the break-in of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist was a
symbol of the Watergate era -- refuses to go away, like some dark stain on the
national conscience."
The Media Gas Tax Caucus "We need to raise taxes...As for
gasoline -- which costs about $3.75 per gal. throughout Europe -- Ross Perot
was right. Phase in a 50-cent tax over five years, and you raise $50 billion a
year." "So Clinton is right to back off
his plan for a middle-class tax cut and right again to `revisit' the proposal
to increase gasoline taxes, regressive levies he routinely dismissed as
un-fair during the campaign." "Norway has an admirable
environmental record in other respects. The U.S., for instance, might follow
its example and implement a carbon tax, which encourages efficiency and the
use of cleaner fuels....If there is anything positive in this pastiche of
cumbersome, expensive, and irrelevant initiatives, it is the trend championed
by the Republican predecessors to move away from regulations and toward market
incentives (hint: a gas tax!) to achieve environmental goals." "Economists generally agree that
moderate increases in energy taxes -- even as much as $50 billion a year -- to
reduce the deficit would actually boost economic growth even though consumers
would be left with less money to spend and prices for just about everything
would rise slightly."
Touting The Progressive "Never merely refractory, never
simply obstructionist, The Progressive has understood for three
generations now the responsibility of a good citizen. It knows that to
conserve the best things about America -- basic things, like democracy and
liberty and equality -- we need to face up to where we've gone wrong....It is
fully truthful enough to make us blush."
Bush Lost, But They Still Can't Forget Willie Horton "And then there was the George
Bush who could be churlish, almost a childlike bully when he campaigned.
Commercials arousing fear and speeches veering into the absurd."
Publisher: L. Brent
Bozell III
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