Editorials / Oh, Brother! /Come Fly With Me!
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
A midst all the public musings over the astonishing disarray of the Clinton presidency, is it not odd that hardly anyone has placed the blame on President Clinton's ideas? Some tell us that the...
...The press contacts Henry Leon easily...
...In fine and in sum, it is a budget written by a schizophrenic and fit for a nation of masochists...
...is off to New York for the chatter shows...
...It includes the country's largest tax increase, despite feeble economic growth, and a promise to cut the deficit with a budget that increases spending...
...Hillary Rodham Clinton, though all Washington's wise coves insist that she is her husband's preeminent adviser...
...To Germany's Chancellor Helmut Kohl he sent a letter with a sentence clearly urging Kohl to lobby the Europeans in sup-port of arming the Bosnian Muslims...
...Yesteryear's perfectly sensible drive for civil rights has been taken over by career racialists, such as Lani Guinier, the president's rudely aborted would-be civil rights administrator...
...Meanwhile, the botches accumulate at a rate Warren Harding and Millard Fillmore could not maintain...
...The evidence adduced includes a birth certificate recording Henry Leon's father, who was also Bill's father, and the fact that both have "blue eyes with bags under them" and their shared passion for junk foods and, as Henry Leon's daughter attests, Adapted from RET's weekly Washington Times column syndicated by Creators Syndicate...
...Hundreds of departmental appointments remain unmade, and the president dithers voluptuously, undoing past blunders, committing new ones, and complimenting himself on such absurdities as his budget...
...Out there in Paradise, California, a retired janitor emerges from obscurity to reveal that for decades he, Mr...
...Others cite the Hamlet-like temperament of our Boy President...
...Controversy ensues...
...Bill still can't reach him...
...How about on Oprah...
...Said a senior White House official to the New York Times, "Mr...
...Bill vows to call Henry Leon: "I placed a call today but there was nobody home...
...All care more about their gimmicks and nonce projects than about a successful Clinton administration...
...His erratic work habits are blamed, treacherous Republicans, something called "Washington Gridlock," a barber in Beverly Hills, California...
...The old Clinton and the evanescent first lady are liberals...
...How does one account for such incompetence...
...Will these two clods ever get together...
...Just the other day he blundered again on the subject of Bosnia and all Europe was dragged in...
...The irony is that for two decades liberalism has been cracking up into a riot of fanaticisms and con acts...
...Similar drives for the alleviation of poverty, for conservation of the environment, for women's rights, for consumer protection, and for all the other relatively moderate and reasonable goals that liberalism once so arrogantly claimed as its own have all fallen into the hands of zealots and frauds...
...Within hours, the irritation was transformed into astonishment when the Clinton administration disavowed the missive...
...Henry Leon Ritzenthaler, has been Bill's half-brother, oblivious to his noble pedigree...
...Clinton never expected anything to come of his letter...
...a hot temper," plus being "chronically late...
...Their demands on the Clintons explain the administration's disarray, though that barber did not help...
...Scores of ambassadorial posts remain vacant...
...They have so distracted him from the straightforward business of administering government that nearly a dozen policy initiatives remain to be introduced, though brief months ago the president was boasting of their imminent arrival...
...Bill's credibility suffers anew when earnest H.L...
...Rather, I suggest that the analysts fix their attention on those sad delusions that the president calls his ideas and on that series of idiotic jingles that the president calls his philosophy of government...
...Some are mere spectacles of buffoonery...
...Kohl did so a day or two later at a regional meeting of the European Community, irritating everyone, particularly the French and British...
...And here is another oddity: no one blames the administration's accumulating botches on Mrs...
...Yet many of our hapless President's botches are serious...
...Neither a youthful staff nor our Boy President's erratic soul is sufficient...
...Some tell us that the disarray is a consequence of his staff's youthfulness...
...is pictured al fresco, telephoning the White House...
Vol. 26 • August 1993 • No. 8
