Politics: The '96 Dream Team
Norquist, Grover G.
"Politics: The '96 Dream Team" by Grover G. Norquist The '96 Dream Team Months beforehand, House Republican leaders decided to make April 15 a turning point in the 1996 election year. They scheduled a vote for Tax Day...
...Congressional hearings cannot be vetoed, and normal Senate committee work cannot be halted by filibuster...
...Republicans can control the political calendar by scheduling hearings at the time and place of their choosing—late summer during the heat of the election race, and in key states like California...
...Finally, Nevada, which mandates two votes on constitutional changes, will vote on November 5 for the second and final time on a two-thirds requirement for tax hikes.The first vote in 1994 won 78 percent...
...The challenge for Republicans will be not only to keep Clinton firmly attached to his party, but to keep their candidate from straying away from his...
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...Clinton will be forced to stand with the union leadership and against union members...
...Having defined themselves, Republicans will find it easy to define Bill Clinton by anchoring him to his liberal policies, to Democrats in Congress, and to the special interest groups that fund and control his party and line their pockets in the name of the welfare state...
...These can focus not only on Whitewater and Travelgate, but also on Clinton political appointees...
...congressional GOP's thinking that Republicans this year are running as a team—not only the presidential candidate but also all those vying for the House, Senate, state governorships, and state legislatures —a unified bloc committed to lower taxes, less government, and devolution of power to the states and people...
...Oklahoma already allows tax hikes that pass with the support of less than three-fourths of the state legislature to be referred to the voters for immediate rescission...
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...His executive order of November 1992 to enforce Beck was immediately overturned in January 1993 by the newly inaugurated Bill Clinton...
...One Republican leader recommends that Bob Dole have another look at The Godfather, Francis Ford Coppola's epic film about the Mob...
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...In California, the two-thirds rule was written into the state's constitution in 1978 as part of the property tax—cut measure, Proposition 13...
...POLITICS by Grover G. Norquist The '96 Dream Team Months beforehand, House Republican leaders decided to make April 15 a turning point in the 1996 election year...
...He'll also try to lure his GOP opponent into the open, into a one-on-one fight refereed by the establishment media—precisely the sort of situation in which Clinton flourishes...
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...Political appointees are hard to disown without offending the key constituency that forced their appointment in the first place...
...The trial lawyers' secret weapon this year is their longtime ally Ralph Nader, who'll be on the ballot in California as the Green Party's presidential candidate...
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...According to polls, 70 percent of Americans support the anti-tax position...
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...Congress can vote to implement the executive order by legislation after holding hearings on how unions coerce workers for political ends...
...The PRRA will stop intrusive "values clarification" tests and surveys in school, end threats to parental rights to school their children at home, and terminate condom distribution without parental consent...
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...They will not be allowed to hide behind the usual evasion: "I support affirmative action, but oppose quotas...
...If Clinton fails to deliver the requisite veto, Nader could easily activate his candidacy, which would win him five to six percent of California's vote —enough to throw the state, and the election, to the Republicans...
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...Doing so will undermine Clinton's effort to separate himself from his party by hiding behind Dick Morris's so-called triangulation scheme...
...The 1988 Supreme Court ruling protecting labor union members who don't want their union dues going to political candidates won the belated support of George...
...Meanwhile, look for Republican-majority states like Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ohio to pass resolutions of their own decrying this or that aspect of Clinton rule and the effect that it's had on them — whether it's his failure to deliver on promised tax cuts or welfare reform...
...Republicans this year are running as a team—and Bob Dole won't be allowed to miss a single day of practice...
...Republicans may add to this list by forcing votes on welfare reform, a pro-family child tax credit, expansion of Individual Retirement Accounts, a roll-back of Bill Clinton's tax increase on Social Security, and raising the earnings limit on those Americans over the age of 65 who, because they continue to work, lose a portion of their Social Security payments...
...To win re-election Bill Clinton knows he needs to separate himself from—if not openly oppose—his party's base and interest groups...
...He urges that Dole pay special attention to the scene in which Sonny Corleone is lured from the safety of the family compound out onto the highway—and gunned down at a toll booth...
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...Already he is vetoing even the mildest efforts at tort reform...
...Arizona, which in 1994 passed a requirement that tax increases receive either a two-thirds vote of the legislature or a majority in a voter referendum, will vote this fall on an initiative to require any voter-approved tax hike to receive two-thirds of the popular vote to pass...
...The California Civil Rights Initiative effort gathered enough signatures to ensure placement on the state ballot...
...In Congress the Dole-Canady bill, which bans all racial preferences bythe federal government, will force all congressmen to say yes or no to racial favoritism...
...President Clinton would have no choice but to veto this legislation, since it would get the National Education Association out of children's personal lives and would repudiate Hillary Clinton's worldview...
...GROVER G. NORQUIST is president of Americans for Tax Reform...
...The debate will divide Hispanic-Americans, who want their children to learn English, from the teachers' unions and Jesse Jackson—wannabes of the Mexican-American community, who see bilingualism as both a jobs program and a mechanism for keeping Hispanics locked into permanent dependency as wards of the Democratic Party...
...And while Clinton has been desperately trying to separate himself from his party, he cannot "triangulate" away from44 Barbour acted on the assumption that the party's core beliefs would attract majority support at all levels...
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...Every political advertisement run by the labor unions between now and election day could lead to the subpoena of the union bosses who paid for it without the consent of their workers...
...This debate will focus more on abolishing bilingual education and other English as a Second Language programs, than on designating English the official language of the United States...
...This plays into the 1 A supermajority requirement to raise taxes already exists in a number of states...
...These won't make the national evening news—but will be covered locally, where voters know how to recognize the connection between Clinton and the Democratic Party machine...
...Now confident that they can strengthen the GOP's governing majority after the April 15 vote, Republicans are planning to advance a handful of issues that will make Clinton's effort to separate himself from his party even more likely to fail...
...Continued GOP efforts in this direction will cement for good Clinton's partnership with the Trial Lawyers of America...
...11 the likes of Hazel O'Leary, Ron Brown, and Henry Cisneros — cabinet members plagued by serious ethical and legal questions...
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...That measure will divide Congress between those who wish to respect "the right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children as a fundamental right implicit in the concept of ordered liberty within the 4th Amendment," as the legislation puts it, and Hillary Clinton's allies who believe that it takes a federal bureaucracy to raise a child...
...The Republicans are building on their 1994 triumph...
...The Parental Rights and Responsibilities Act is being sponsored by Oklahoma Rep...
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...As a result of a 1993 initiative, Washington state requires a two-thirds vote for tax hikes...
...They scheduled a vote for Tax Day on a constitutional amendment requiring two-thirds approval by both the House and Senate to pass any future tax hike.' Henceforth, there would be two types of congressmen and congressional candidates: those who believe it should be more difficult to raise taxes, and those satisfied with the current bias toward tax increases over spending restraint...
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...The GOP also has several weapons in its arsenal that Clinton cannot veto: congressional hearings and investigations...
...A Clinton veto of Dole-Canady would make his insistence that he is a "New Democrat" and "moderate" all the more implausible...
...That's all there is to it...
...In that election, GOP leaders like Newt Gingrich, Dick Armey, and national chairman Haley Barbour acted on the assumption that the party's core beliefs would attract majority support at all levels—and not only at the presidential level, where conservative candidates generally outpoll liberal contenders...
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Vol. 29 • May 1996 • No. 5
