Special Correspondence/Senator Simpson Fights Back
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...As for campaign promises—in 1978 and 1984 I made only two to the people in Wyoming: that I would work my fanny off—and would try to make them very proud...
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...And the fevered attacks that I receive on the other issues haven't caused me to change one vote...
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...So am I. The positions I have taken on the various "social issues," including abortion, have been formed over many years—long before I was elected to the United States Senate...
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...How does it help the United States to have a fearful subclass of human beings in our nation who are afraid to go to the cops, afraid to go to a hospital (unless it is for a birth of a U.S...
...Seldom in my twenty years of political life have I witnessed such a rapid-fire assault of drivel...
...It's an honor to be a part of the democratic process...
...It's almost as if I was sup-posed to be boisterously and half-arrogantly sitting there babbling into the vapors and suddenly, when I "realized" that Paul Weyrich was in the room, I clutched my throat, froze up, and toppled over on my head...
...Only our fine and most capable Majority Leader, Bob Dole, managed to support our President more frequently than I. I am proud of that...
...A great anger at the navxa s and others who would have us believe that America is doomed and bent on taking the rest of the world down with her...
...I do, in fact, deeply acknowledge the intensity of emotion in that particular debate—even though their views are not the same as mine...
...I know some of those fine young people...
...I often flunk the many litmus tests that are administered in this fascinating village by single-issue groups...
...Tom Bethell replies As for Senator Simpson's reported comments to Senator Chafee ("If I've got one thing on my agenda, it's to stop social issues from coming to the floor"), Paul Weyrich can respond for himself if he is so inclined...
...He's been harshly critical of all of my immigration reform efforts in the past...
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...My efforts have absolutely nothing to do with any alarm over "foreigners" coming into the country...
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...He has never—at anytime—attempted to communicate with me personally in any way—not by letter, phone call, or personal meeting...
...That's the first duty of a sovereign nation—control of its borders...
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...It is even more fascinating to suggest that a senator who was just here two years in 1980 could bully around such intelligent, thoughtful, and forceful persons as Howard Baker and Jim Baker...
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...SENATOR SIMPSON FIGHTS BACK Well, if I might just take one moment-to dig the hatchet out of my old bald dome, I will respond to the testy little attacks lobbed in my direction by Tom Bethell ("Senator Simpson's Reward," TAS, February 1986, and "Strange New Respect: Cont'd," TAS, March 1986), who apparently performs the function of "Washington correspondent" for this publication...
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...He says that I never contacted him or his office...
...I don't really know the origin of the first one, but it does provoke some lucid thought in me always: "In politics surely—and maybe in the press—there are no right answers, only a continual flow of compromises between groups—resulting in a changing, cloudy, and ambiguous series of public decisions—where appetite and ambition compete openly with knowledge and wisdom...
...We're all entitled to our own opinions—but Bethell is not entitled to his own facts...
...Bethell is not perfect...
...I have held a total of three press conferences in my seven years in Washington...
...So I doubt very seriously if there is anything I could ever do or ever say that might change that...
...His deep-seated personal aversion for me must then be based on what he has read and heard second, third, or even maybe fourth hand...
...The people in Wyoming know all about me—right back to when I was a ring-tailed kid at Cody High School and the University of Wyoming—and they sure know how I vote...
...I would like that...
...Those Wyoming citizens are highly articulate, thoughtful, intelligent, well read,outspoken, and highly opinionated...
...As to the "Weyrich incident" I'm going to come out there and check your ash trays—to see what you are smoking...
...He has taken an interesting and meandering walk around the edge of the bog on that one...
...Let me share just a couple of quotes that lend perspective to my activities...
...I have dealt with immigration reform, commercial nuclear power, Three Mile Island, Agent Orange, veterans issues, high and low level nuclear waste disposal, various judiciary issues, and the federal budget deficit...
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...Howard and Jim both would chuckle at that one...
...The proponents of any measure, who have had the opportunity for a full debate—and lost—should respect the will of the Senate...
...Your gentle readers may be interested to know that in 1985, I voted with our fine President, Ronald Reagan, 90 per-cent of the time...
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...His criticisms have done very little to stymie what I think is a rather important national effort...
...In 1985, the Immigration and Naturalization Service apprehended 1.2 million people crossing our borders illegally—from ninety-two different nations—and we estimate that we apprehended probably one out of every two that come...
...I like to think that more of the truth emerges this way than by trying to boil disputation down to consensus...
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...In the February issue he seems to whimsically suggest that I somehow conduct my business in Washington with the hope that my constituents in Wyoming won't find out what I'm up to...
...I even think he slid in a time or two...
...I am not perfect in my life or endeavors...
...I most surely flunked Bethell's test—tri-laterally if I might use the phrase—since I don't seem to measure up on immigration reform, the abortion issue, or the Medvid case...
...During my time in public life I have discovered how to accept a crumb when I can't get a loaf—and how to compromise an issue without compromising myself...
...In the 1984 elections, 78 percent of Wyoming's voters must have figured I had kept that promise during that first trip...
...And now we really must get down to the nub of things—my views on abortion...
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...I have consistently and sincerely stated my concerns over the so-called "social issues...
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...Plenty of Americans have been exposed to it by their frustration with illegal immigration...
...They always have the real potential to be emotional and very divisive—and the clearest and most real part of it all is that you can debate those issues for literally days on end,and you won't change a single vote...
...Their marvelous degree of support is where I find my personal satisfaction...
...We have a sincere, skilled, and articulate President who inspires our highest national confidence...
...But more importantly they know how to spot a phony too—and I would have been retired very swiftly in 1984 if I had ever tried to pull the wool over their eyes in my first six-year tour of duty...
...We might get together for lunch and review our imperfections...
...One issue the Senator raises is worth exploring...
...That is always where you flunk the test with a guy like Bethell...
...Damned if I've ever seen the guy...
...Had I spent an hour with Simpson, I wonder if I would have written anything at all...
...I think he jumped the tracks in an extraordinary fashion when he cites my alleged "hostility"—"snarling" yet!—toward the right-to-life movement...
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...Magazines are not courtrooms, nor are journalists officers of the law (not that I alleged any wrongdoing on the Senator's part...
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...I have my own deeply held personal and religious views on abortion...
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...Yes, I have always had a "peculiar" attitude about public life—I say exactly the same things in Wyoming that I say in Washington, and vice versa...
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...I have never—ever—boasted of "stopping the social agenda...
...I enjoy it—no, I love it...
...They called that virulent trait "xenophobia" when I was at the University of Wyoming...
...I disagreed with him, and still do, about immigration, abortion, and the Medvid case, but I wonder how inclined I would have been to voice my disagreement after a friendly chat—perhaps even lunch...
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...I differ with some conservatives on abortion...
...Apparently to substantiate the pungency of his article, Washington correspondent Bethell cites the omnipresent "unnamed Senate aide"the unelected and most often unelectable person with no mandate from the people, but sometimes simply a hidden agenda all his or her own...
...I didn't come out here to get my suits bleached by the camera lights...
...Although I would still en-joy a personal visit with "the Washington correspondent...
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...The Senator has a reputation for geniality which I am sure is well deserved...
...But the specifics of my position on abortion won't interest Tom Bethell...
...The information he uses in both the February and March issues of The American Spectator is goofy...
...I've supported sensible anti-busing legislation—but once we have had the full and fair Senate debate, then let's move on with our work...
...You might even like him, Tom—if you ever got to know him...
...It doesn't seem so to me...
...For instance, I have always supported school prayer...
...Then in the March issue, I was absolutely transfixed to read Paul Weyrich's account (via Bethell) of a conversation he claims to have heard six years ago...
...I am a legislator—sent to Washington to legislate...
...The immigration reform legislation recognizes that the borders of the United States are out of our control...
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...Apparently as the result of my immigration reform efforts—and because I don't line up with the Bethell crew—I am "anti-people...
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