Capitol Ideas/Senator Simpson's Reward
Bethell, Tom
When the Senator alludes to the family's tradition of Jacobinism, he is being somewhat misleading. The radicalism goes back no further than to Robert Kennedy. John F. Kennedy always raised the...
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...In order to solve this alleged problem, Simpson has labored mightily all through the 1980s to pass a reform bill...
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...The authors of the latest edition of the Almanac of American Politics make the following interesting comment: "Simpson, in Washington and in Wyoming, considers himself part of a secure majority and also part of the natural aristocracy that Thomas Jefferson saw would develop if egalitarian principles were given a decent chance" How's that again about a natural aristocracy...
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...Simpson won Additional New Respect when he appeared on nation-wide television at the time of the Medvid Scandal (a blot on Reagan's record any way you look at it) and took an unsympathetic view of the seaman's plight (curtailing the number of Ukrainians coming into this country...
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...With JFK and father Joe in the background, Senator Kennedy can transform his family tradition into progressive conservatism any time he chooses...
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...Senate in 1978 (with 62 percent of the vote, reelected in '84 with 78 percent), his father Milward Simpson having held the seat before him...
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...Before that he had been an aide to Senator Joseph McCarthy, and during New Frontier days he was an adamant hawk...
...This year the prize goes to the junior senator from Wyoming, well known for his dogged support of immigration reform (curtailing the number of foreigners coming to this country), and less well known for his hostility to the right-to-life movement (curtailing the Tom Bethel...
...By the same token, however, he is free to pursue a hobby-horse without constituency pressure...
...He is known in Washington as a humorist, something of a wag in fact, and his greatest admirers call him Lincolnesque...
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...An Ur-ban Institute study has found that in Southern California "there appears to be relatively little direct competition between Mexican immigrants and native blacks for the same jobs...
...Simpson also showed his temper on the Senate floor shortly before Christmas, 1982, when he dispensed with senatorial courtesy and lashed out at Jesse Helms of North Carolina, who Not that the people of Wyoming wanted a gas tax increase...
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...In 1984, Conner said, liberals in the House insisted on an amnesty provision before lending their support, got what they wanted, and many of them still voted against the measure...
...The new, tougher line is supposed to attract conservatives who have in the past voted against immigration reform because the amnesty provision was too generous...
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...His diatribe ended with the strange observation that if nothing is done about immigration "public pressure [read: Inside-the-Beltway pressure] will require ever more budgetary assistance to the Immigration Service and to the Border Patrol...
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...Frankly, I would rather be in Senator Kennedy's shoes than in theirs...
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...migration issue, Simpson is usually given credit for altruism, it being con-ceded that his crusade wins him few votes in Wyoming...
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...Commentators noted that the Kennedy withdrawal was a boon to other prospective Democratic presidential candidates, a surprising number of whom appear quite moderate...
...Reproduction was a "private issue," etc...
...Yet immigrants are often sufficiently motivated to climb onto those rungs notwithstanding government obstruction...
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...As American Spectator readers may know, the Strange New Respect Award is presented periodically to public officials who come to Washington with conservative reputations but once in-side the Beltway succumb to flattery and fashion and acquiesce in the liberal agenda—if possible without alerting the folks back home...
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...He likes the social life of the Washington cliff-dwellers, but his metaphors are often bloody: `busting their guts' and so on...
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...Roger Conner of the Federation for American Immigration Reform tells me that the bill could come up for a House vote in March or April...
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...Moreover, Robert Kennedy's shift to the left came only after Dallas...
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...Appropriately enough, he comes from the state with the smallest population...
...was using normal parliamentary tactics to delay a vote on a gas tax increase: Seldom have I seen in my legislative experience of 17 years or more a more obdurate and obnoxious performance...
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...But methinks he'd rather be in Georgetown...
...One intern recalls the day (about 1983) that Simpson showed up...
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...Pete Wilson and Lloyd Bentsen did vote for it, the former only after a guest-worker provision was added for California farmers—a pro-vision that Simpson opposed...
Vol. 19 • February 1986 • No. 2
