Editorials / Why New York? / Congress on Ice
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
CONGRESS ON ICE Washington T all, tanned, and presidential, of it, such as the Americans with Dis- I George Herbert Walker Bush, abilities Act, the Clean Air Bill, and the seated at lunch in the...
...many of the pernicious bills now cir- It is as though all the scholars who apculating through Washington are com- plied themselves to cost-benefit analying from...
...he is set for life...
...embrace quotas...
...to end or if he will stop by and listen perience has demonstrated, further state, and more power for Big Govern- Once the smiling pol has a seat there to the new Beatles album with me...
...Those are the ideas that brought mandering, political action commit- ideas...
...Perhaps never...
...President...
...His opportunities to exploit in- an end to the economic regulations that congressional seats are subject to com- All three of those countries have redignant members of minority groups stifle self-help and black entrepreneur- petitive elections...
...They are coming from 1968, sis in the 1970s had never lived...
...For solons such as private sector...
...Thanks to gerry- cently shown themselves open to new will expand stupendously, and with ship...
...I think the try can aspire to the life-style of an F. even the far reaches of Moscow and tically a matter of lifetime tenure...
...Much Mr...
...Or, more accurately, of this new legislation opens vast areas they are coming from congressmen for litigation and governmental coerwho have learned nothing from the cion in America's hitherto flourishing past two decades...
...Peking...
...Over next time I see him I shall ask him Lee Bailey...
...But for the impecunious black who needs scholarship on the failures of govern- dominance comparable to what one for the lawyer whose mentality is that better education, crime-free neighbor- ment intrusions into the private sector might find in Mexico, South Africa, of the ambulance chaser it will be a hoods, a strong family structure, and has penetrated Capitol Hill is that few and the USSR...
...When will the fossils on Capitol jury trials and punitive damages now revival wherever they were implemented tees, and a large arsenal of government Hill realize the times they are a-changpossible in bias suits the graduates of in recent years...
...It will make job postpone the realization of a color- ment's noble lords on Capitol Hill...
...boon...
...They are the ideas perquisites that the Congress has voted ing...
...ins Act with its implicit racial quotas The Kennedy-Hawkins Civil Rights and threats of onerous litigation against Act of 1990 would more accurately be almost any institution that does not titled the Civil Wrongs Act of 1990...
...Based on the experience that we have At the present moment an astound- now had with quotas it is obvious that ing mass of legislation is grinding out this legislation will ensure the per-of the congressional baloney grinder as sistence of racial bigotry, damage black though the experience of the past twen- self-esteem, and leave the deeply imty years has been purely illusory...
...Some poverished inner-city black still further 8 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JULY 1990 back in history's wake...
...Moreover, they will do nothing ience with free markets nor recent tives for thirty-six years—a one-party ficulty finding employment today...
...But on Capitol Hill it is 98 percent of the incumbents won re- when the hell the Vietnam war is going Senator Kennedy's quotas will, as ex- all 1968, high hopes for the welfare election in the last House elections...
...Certainly Senator every third-rate law school in the coun- sweeping Eastern Europe, reaching to itself, a seat on Capitol Hill is prac- Kennedy will never change...
...Hence the economic Senator Edward M. Kennedy the 1970s growth that has been the marvel of the and the bankruptcy of welfare politics 1980s is going to be ended by the legisnever happened nor did the 1980s and lation of reactionaries shackled to the the triumphs of the free market...
...The same party has seeking somewhat easier for middle- blind society and an era of racial har- The reason that neither recent exper- prevailed in the House of Representaclass blacks who have no particular dif- mony...
...Thus ideas of the past, and these ignorahe duly promotes the Kennedy-Hawk- muses call themselves progressives...
...CONGRESS ON ICE Washington T all, tanned, and presidential, of it, such as the Americans with Dis- I George Herbert Walker Bush, abilities Act, the Clean Air Bill, and the seated at lunch in the little patio garden Fair Housing Amendments Act, prom-aside his White House office, wondered ises to heap costs on business that will aloud the other day as to where so far transcend their debatable benefits...
Vol. 23 • July 1990 • No. 7
