Editorials:Doledrums for Clinton / Forget It!
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
"Editorials:Doledrums for Clinton / Forget It!" by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Doledrums for Clinton Washington I think of this city, the capital of a vast country, as a small town. The evidence to support my prejudice piles...
...Since 1968 Republicans have had a hammer lock on the South, the Southwest, the Plains states, and the Rocky Mountain West...
...Irco Throw in the electoral votes of such traditionally Republican states as Alaska, Indiana, Maine, and New Hampshire and the Republican candidate already has 275 electoral votes, five more than he needs...
...Remember when, ledby Bill Clinton, they were for a middle-class tax cut...
...I don't recall...
...Daschle's "individual consumers...
...Today he sings of how raising the minimum wage from $4.25 to $5.15 will get the working poor over the hump and on the way to the American Dream...
...After all he is dependent on the news of a one-party media...
...Yet the press echoes with the administration blah that the bumpkin living in the White House is a "Foreign Policy President...
...In 1992 Sen...
...Well, if Dole is the nominee of the party, Bennett had better be prepared to address him as President Dole...
...Who doubts that he will also pick up votes in larger states where his party is very competitive, for instance Illinois, Missouri, Ohio, and Pennsylvania...
...Next week, who knows...
...It certainly has helped our great big lovable lug of a president in his campaign to raise the minimum wage...
...Dole to be thinking of his running mate...
...They suffer the aforementioned mental deficiency...
...The Hon...
...He is going to lose...
...A simple computation of votes in the Electoral College shows that Clinton's muzzle is about to be pulled from the public trough...
...We may be beat anyway...
...That was all for the good...
...Since 1952, whenever disposable 5, 16 June 1996 • The American Spectator income growth dropped below the long-run growth trend of 2.1 percent, the incumbent president has been shown the door by the electorate...
...As I say, the vast imbalance in the media explains the conformity in the ideas seeping from Washington...
...No more...
...Naturally not much that is true comes from our Washington sages...
...In John Corry's Press-watch, the Venona files were inadvertently confused with an Italian city...
...Many seem to have almost no memory whatsoever...
...Listen to former Republican cabinet member Bill Bennett bawling to a meeting of Newt Gingrich's GOPAC supporters: "We may get walloped anyway...
...Kevorkians of health reform...
...He even forgets his own record of opposing a raise in the minimum wage...
...Now I can understand Bennett's despair, though I do not sympathize with it...
...He could do worse than make Dick Lugar vice president...
...Even the Republicans seem to believe the pundits, though the pundits with almost no exceptions are Democrats, and Democrats of a particularly partisan nature...
...Clinton's incomparable economy, Peter Brimelow pointed out in Forbes magazine recently that in the four quarters preceding this fall's election it appears that real per capita disposable income will have ,.`2 risen only 1.3 percent...
...Two percent were "conservative...
...As recently as 1993 he was grumbling to Time that the minimum wage "is the wrong way to raise the incomes of low-wage earners...
...How easily he forgets the overwhelming body of economic studies that have demonstrated that the minimum wage puts unskilled workers out of jobs and exacerbates high school drop-out rates...
...How about an adult...
...Federal prosecutors are specifically instructed on ways to conduct cases against witnesses who seek to avoid testimony by claiming memory lapses...
...The evidence to support my prejudice piles higher every day...
...In debating the Senate health care bill the other day both of these men heatedly opposed MSAs, as though there never was a yesterday...
...Actually he will lose the next election, probably thunderously...
...Daschle called them "The Dr...
...Back in the mists of time —1994 to be exact—Rep...
...Ido not share the currently infectious notion that the Republican Party is lost at sea and about to be swamped by a towering Democratic wave...
...I know some clever Democrats, but those who are most effective at throwing the Republicans for a loop are not particularly clever...
...As for Mr...
...No more...
...And, by the way, some of those amnesiacs are subject to indictment...
...Robert Novak reports that President Clinton may be coming out for a capital gains tax cut...
...But the Republicans can resist those ideas...
...Now, alas, memory loss has set in...
...We're all Democrats over here in the asylum...
...But wait, they have had another change of mind...
...Did you ever try to keep up with their changing C ) positions on homosexuals in the ---military...
...President Clinton and his party stalwarts change positions so fluently that the Republicans are left arguing last season's arguments...
...A survey by the Roper Center and Freedom Forum has found that of 139 Washington-based bureau chiefs and congressional correspondents, 89 percent voted for Bill Clinton...
...White House essays into perjury and obstruction of justice are ignored or deposited in the back pages...
...Ninety-one percent viewed themselves as "Moderate-to-Liberal...
...The 1994 Republican sweep was too widespread...
...Oir} For the Record In Tom Bethell's Capitol Ideas column last month, the meeting between Samuel Steward and Albert Kinsey should have been described as occurring in 1949...
...He has replaced last season's Drug Policy Director with a get tough director, retired General Barry McCaffrey, and Democratic congressman Charles Rangel is bawling, "I really never thought I'd miss Nancy Reagan, but I do...
...No one in the press notes the economy's similarity to the Bush economy that had the press in such anxiety...
...Now he has changed his mind...
...This is because the Democrats are either very clever or bereft of certain mental faculties that we expect in human beings and the higher forms of animal life...
...My guess is that most Americans are tired of politicians acting the role of the eternal boy...
...The administration's repute is so tattered abroad that Syria's President Hafez al-Assad rudely cancels appointments with Secretary of State Warren Christopher even as the poor fellow cools his heels outside Assad's office...
...The economy is just limping along, and yet the president gets by depicting it as "the healthiest it has been in three decades" in his State of the Union message...
...They yearn for political leaders with Forget It...
...His solution for Haiti has left the country in no better condition than when he first afflicted it...
...He was against it last year...
...The most blatant recent instance of Democratic amnesia was displayed by House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt and his Senate equivalent Tom Daschle...
...In keeping with Washington's small-town atmosphere we have here a class of pundits as provincial as the boys who sip coffee and chomp gossip every morning at the downtown coffee shop in Bull Snort, Georgia...
...He cannot understand how the cold-hearted Republicans would oppose this mild measure of turning water into wine and multiplying the loaves and fishes by government decree...
...Think of all the White House personnel and friends of the Clintons who have been appearing before congressional committees intoning, "I don't remember...
...Well, amnesia has its uses...
...Moreover, there was a logic to it...
...The American Spectator • June 1996 17...
...It is the Democratic Party's slavish stenographer...
...two decades of Democratic self-indulgence and liberal radicalization had rendered the Democrats repellent to the electorate...
...But I would much rather get beat on principles...
...And so MSAs have gone the way of the minimum wage, missile defense, and middle-class tax cuts for the forgetful Democrats...
...Apologies...
...Daschle introduced MSAs in a Senate bill that would give "individual consumers a larger stake in spending decisions...
...Yet there is obviously confusion among Republicans at the national level...
...And his fecklessness has left relations with Japan and China at a nadir...
...Remember when their Machiavels, led by Senator Sam Nunn, were for missile reform...
...Democratic than it has ever been before...
...They still are...
...Yet the pundits' line here is that the most ineffectual and morally flawed president— actually presidential couple — in American history is going to beat Senator Bob Dole...
...Gephardt was booming the benefits of Medical Savings Accounts...
...Their latest line is that President Bill Clinton is a shoo-in...
...Doubtless when the likes of Susana sense of responsibility, fiscal restraint, regard for their pocketbooks (low taxes), unassailable integrity, and, in the executive branch, foreign policy savvy...
...Impossible...
...The Democrats have them befuddled...
...And off he went lamenting probable Republican nominee Bob Dole's lack of principles, vision, and political fire...
...When Our President commenced the Clin 9 6 - ton Era his drug policy de-emphasized interdiction and prosecution and slashed the drug czar's budget...
...How they manage to get through each day without ending up in shelters for the homeless is a mystery...
...Rather than falling into the mulligrubs it is time for Republicans to begin campaigning and for Mr...
...If so, why not raise it to $1o.00...
...Actually he is a Foreign Policy Incompetent whose policies in Northern Ireland, Bosnia, and the Middle East are all being thwarted...
...That media is more partisanly Adapted from RET's weekly Washington Times column syndicated by Creators Syndicate...
...He may be for it today...
...Oftt Thomases and Margaret Williams, Hillary's loyalists, find themselves in court their lawyers will be accompanied by shrinks discoursing on the sadness of Democratic amnesia...
...EDITORIALS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr...
...The Hon...
...But Democratic loss of memory is not always a crime, and it can be a very effective political tool...
...Gephardt called them a boon "to favor the special interests...
...Forget the fashionable line on Clinton...
...Bob Dole will be president...
...Another story that has mostly escaped mention in the press merely corroborates the media's devotion to the Democrats...
...The politician who fills the bill in all those categories just displayed himself in the Republican primaries as a gentleman—and a conservative one at that—Indiana's Senator Dick Lugar...
Vol. 29 • June 1996 • No. 6
