Editorials/The End of What?/Tough Talk
'Tyrrell, R Emmett Jr.
10 TOUGH TALK well, here in Washington at the saw him adopt the demeanor of the resplendent Mayflower Hotel bruiser, and surely the Democrats recall the Democrats have held another of the gruesome...
...There was the delicate condition...
...their seminars to divine how they might The Democratic delegation to the wallop the Republicans good in the House of Representatives is in a very next national elections...
...Moreover, a growing number of Democrats' harangues about Repub- or look condescendingly at patriotism, adhered to the discipline of collec- social critics began to doubt the lican "sleaze" and so few convictions family values, and concern about sex tivism, that is to say a belief in the wisdom of the planned economy and resulting, George Bush could benefit and violence on television...
...In addition there were been a higher incidence of what the many hairy-chested exhortations for Democrats call "sleaze" associated with the party to get tough with George their own House delegation than at any Bush, whose national approval rating time in modern American history...
...They call would be used...
...In right now is in the neighborhood of 70 fact, if one wishes to throw in the percent...
...Surely he has not forgotten their policies that ingratiate them to the elec- began granting dispensations to vari- laissez faire, which is to say toward the hypocritical assault on John Tower...
...Said closure regulations...
...This is favors...
...But here is a say in how their government benefits sad truth...
...at the Mayflower, "lost a sense of JFK, and LBJ...
...tions...
...One of these gentlemen stands domestic adviser, Stuart E. Eizenstat, the alphabet Presidents: FDR, HST, From that point on the factions that accused of being a common fondler...
...social engineering...
...The Democrats can- being convicted of graft...
...Getting tough" with Perhaps a surer path to political appalling national calamity to return the beneficiaries of the welfare state George Bush will not overcome that revival would be for the Democrats to them to the White House...
...And we are not talking about the Such advice puts me in mind of a dic- kind of ethical violations that result turn framed some sixty years ago by my from complicated post-Watergate dispredecessor, George Jean Nathan...
...But that kind of liber- now divide liberalism began to multi-After enduring eight years of the middle-class values and seem to blush alism was only possible when liberals ply...
...planned economy, the planned society, the planned society...
...Ex-congressmen Coelho and at the wrong time...
...On the campaign trail last fall we all Congressman Frank admits to consortTHE AMERICAN SPECTATOR NOVEMBER 1989 ing with a prostitute, and at least two review their policies...
...Others have left recently after not one of them...
...torate they will have to hope for some ous minorities...
...ABSCAM scandal and the convictions Bearing in mind recent difficulties of various other Democratic members that have befallen various distinguished of the House, one sees a pattern of Democratic solons and numas, I would proven corruption that is quite stagger-counsel against this getting-tough stuff...
...For twenty years handsomely from directing the nation's Now Eizenstat is on the right track...
...the drift has been away from collecattention to the Democrats' moral con- Until the Democrats latch on to Sometime in the 1960s liberalism tivism and toward local autonomy and dition...
...10 TOUGH TALK well, here in Washington at the saw him adopt the demeanor of the resplendent Mayflower Hotel bruiser, and surely the Democrats recall the Democrats have held another of the gruesome consequences...
...Doubtless in Wright left office hounded by charges politics there are times when the intel- of financial impropriety and accepting ligent thing to do is get tough...
...That was the begin-others are accused of sexual indiscre- testified President Jimmy Carter's chief for "tough liberalism" as exhibited by ping of the end for liberal planners...
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...main, though convicted of bribery...
...We have," the heart of their problem...
...The idea was to give Republicans...
...Few truth-seekers in usual no-nonsense talk about facing up this great Republic have yet mentioned to the party's problems, but there was it, but over the last year or so there has little facing up...
...Others re-not benefit from riling President Bush...
...the first editor of The American Spec- This is the traditional kind of cortator, "A fool is one who is intelligent ruption...
Vol. 22 • November 1989 • No. 11
